14 Forgotten Video Game Franchises That Desperately Need Sequels

13. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Why on earth didn't Psi-Ops' core conceit catch on? It was a game where you pick dudes up with the power of your mind, and then slam them off walls, through windows, set them alight, or just pop their heads and regain some mind-juice. Sure Star Wars' Force Unleashed games took the idea and threw in the notion of squishing Stormtroopers with TIE Fighters, but something about the physics in that game just didn't feel right. There was a real sense of weight and causality to lobbing dudes across the room in Psi-Ops that just came across as 'sped up' in TFU, and it's something that makes The Mindgate Conspiracy endlessly replayable to this day. Sadly, as of 2009 Midway are defunct, splitting their staff across many different studios; something that alongside the initial PR battle Psi-Ops had against Free Radical's Second Sight (a more high-profile telekinetic-ém-up that dwarfed its sales) at the time, meant they had to abandon the property entirely. However, with everything from Mega Man to Castlevania, Shenmue and the near-mythical Final Fantasy all coming back in one form or another, surely there's a publisher out there that could revive this already-perfected concept once more?