10 Popular Video Game Series' That Completely Forgot Who They Were

9. Red Faction

Nowadays, Volition are more widely known for their insane work with Saints Row, but one of their first big breakthrough titles was with Red Faction; an FPS title with a massive selling point - fully destructible environments. It was one of the first games to incorporate unscripted level-altering, something that massively enhanced what should have been a relatively average shooter. Red Faction II followed a similar path, utilising the Geo-Mod technology better than the first game, but ultimately people were still unsatisfied by the game's campaign. Perhaps this is why Volition took such a radical step with the series' third title - Guerilla. The game shifted into a third-person perspective and while this might seem like a strange move, it actually made sense given the improvements to the Geo Mod technology. Now, players could run around with a sledgehammer-like weapon and unleash chaos and destruction upon the environment. The amount of destruction you could inflict in Guerilla was mightily impressive; leveling buildings is something that simply will never get old. If Michael Bay created a video game series, it wouldn't be too far removed from this. Sadly, it seems that random chaotic madness doesn't always live up to expectations; the fourth game in the series (Armageddon) returned to a more linear playstyle but did not live up to sales targets - being dropped by THQ and seemingly ending the series (it has since been picked up by Nordic Games however).