10 Obscure Video Game Spin-Offs You Totally Forgot Existed

6. Death By Degrees

Of all the games in this list, this is the only one that has the deluded self-confidence to have no reference to its parent series in the title (unless you count the schlocky prefix that says 'Tekken's Nina Williams In:'). Essentially a slightly more advanced version of the main games' Tekken Force Mode, Death By Degrees is a 3D beat-em-up sees you punch, slash, and occasionally shoot your way through rooms of goons as the blonde assassin. Nina's goal is to bring about the downfall of some criminal organisation or another, though you can't help but feel the game's just an excuse to see Nina strutting around wearing dresses that reveal teasing bits of cleavage, or side-boob, or both. It plays much like the main Tekken games, which is a problem seeing as they're designed for one-on-one scenarios, not five-on-one. While there are moments of fun to be had with twin ninja blades and assault rifle, it's marred by awkward camera angles and targeting systems. Much like the Elder Scrolls Adventures, and the Mortal Kombat Mythologies series before that, Death By Degrees was an attempt to start a whole spin-off series that would follow a different character at each outing. The reason we see much less of these spin-offs today is probably thanks to games like this, which are told as terrifying cautionary tales to baby publishers, scaring them off trying to do this kind of thing ever again.