10 Video Games That Were Too Damn Short

8. The Darkness 2

The Darkness was one of those underrated shooters from the mid 2000s that nobody played because the whole world was too enraptured by Call of Duty and Halo to care about anything that fell in between. Still, it gained a strong cult following and managed to nab itself a sequel, which launched 5 years after the original.

Picking up the story of Jackie, a man imbued with the supernatural powers of the titular Darkness, who's now become something of a mob boss, the player spends the bulk of the game taking out other criminals and attempting to save the soul of his murdered girlfriend, Jenny. Unlike the predecessor though, which spun its story out over 10 hours, the sequel crams everything in a measly six.

The experience was still solid, but after a five-year wait, the short campaign left a lot to be desired.

Even worse, the game ends on a cliffhanger. There are actually two endings, one which ends on a hallucination, and another which sees Jenny become the host for Angelus - the nemesis of The Darkness - set up as the villain for a third game that would never arrive.