10 Video Game Sequels That Played Things Way Too Safe

The Ghost Recon series has been kicking around since 2001, and since GRAW hit the scene in 2006 it was the go-to shooter for gamers that wanted deep tactical combat scenarios. Its sequel was equally as praised, but sold less, only managing to shift around a million units.

When the next sequel in the franchise was finally birthed five years later, fans were understandably excited. However, the game they got was a much more streamlined experience that bundled it in with any other third-person cover-based shooter that was floating around at the time.

You spend more time watching your soldiers act like Spec-ops than actually performing as them with your squad syncing their shots at the flick of a button, multiple on-rails segments and the game was painfully easy to the point labelling it tactical produces a snigger amongst devoted Tom Clancy fans.

Ubisoft didn't want to gamble and see if the now heavily arcade-action focused gaming market would accept an old-fashioned tactical shooter, so they removed the majority of the mechanics that made the game deep and boosted their sales by 27.2% as a result.

The game ended the franchise's investment in realism, and the series has divested from tactical gameplay to something a lot more generic ever since.