10 Video Games You INSTANTLY Knew Were Trash
5. XIII Remake
It's always especially embarrassing when a remake falls flat, because when a dev team is working from an established, successful blueprint, there shouldn't be too many opportunities to screw things up.
Enter 2020's remake of the beloved 2003 comic book-y, cel-shaded FPS XIII, which committed two cardinal, fatal sins in its opening 30 seconds.
First and foremost, it revealed an overhauled art style, stripping away the unapologetic cartoonishness of the original for something more "realistic" and, honestly, boring.
And secondly, in a howlingly blatant attempt to lazily cut corners, the nearly two-decade cinematics from the original XIII were simply projected onto a screen in an FBI auditorium whenever they needed to be shown.
Together, these epic foibles indicated that developer PlayMagic had dropped the ball, which even publisher Microids apparently agreed with, as two years later they hired another studio, Tower Five, to create an overhaul of the remake.
A remake of the remake, if you will, which was better-receivee yet ultimately still felt like somebody trying to patch up a corpse that bled out long ago.