10 Underappreciated Video Games That Deserve A Sequel

Sometimes your game just needs a little bit longer to cook. The get those edges sanded down and, at the very least finish inserting all the content.

Dark Void is yet another title that got pushed out of the door before it was ready and into an unforgiving launch window. An ambitious mixture of arcade-style flight simulator and third-person cover shooter, Dark Void absolutely sings once you push past the first hour or so.

In the game you'll take on Nazi-supporting robot lizards alongside a rag tag group of human resistance fighters made up of people who've become stranded in the Bermuda triangle over the years. This includes Nikola Tesla, who introduces you to his latest invention: only a bloody jetpack.

It's from there that it really picks up speed and starts living up to its potential. The inclusion of the jetpack into large open spaces filled with smaller objectives lets you mix it up, swapping between aerial combat and ground combat at will. Dark Void's main issue is that it ends just as it’s starting to reach its peak, as in it literally cuts from what feels like the mid-point of the story to the final boss.

The real tragedy is the possibilities of the continued story. It ends with a return to the real world, jetpack in tow, just in time to get busy introducing the allies to jetpack technology and setting up an alternative WW2 Rocketeer style game that we'll sadly never get to play.