11 Half-Baked Video Games That Totally Ruined Their Franchises

2. Star Wars: Battlefront

It's hard to call a game that sold over twenty million copies a failure, but what Battlefront achieved in sales it inversely lost in fan support.

Riding the waves of some superb Star Wars hype not only for the game itself but for the new movie dropping mere months after Battlefront was set to hit shelves, upon release it quickly became clear that EA's first foray into the sci-fi universe was nothing but a half-baked attempt to cash-in on the world-conquering franchise.

Devoid of the features fans had been clamouring for, Battlefront didn't have the lasting potential to be the long-term smash-hit everyone expected.

Without a campaign, any multiplayer persistence that appealed to core gamers or a varied array of content (the title's flagship mode only shipped with four playable maps - a crime for a multiplayer-only game like this), it seemed as though EA was fine with releasing a half-finished product while expecting players to pay up for the season pass to fill in the blanks.

Battlefront was the title that broke the camel's back when it came to over-eager pre-orders and day one purchases, so while the title sold millions of copies don't be shocked if that number takes a sharp dive when the sequel drops later this year.