8 Popular Video Games That Fell Apart After Incredible Openings

4. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

There was a weird point in time back in 2004 where two games with the exact same premise (man uses telepathic powers to fling enemies around) released within two months of one another. Where Second Sight had all of Free Radical's budgetary clout, Midway's Psi-Ops was a far-better playing game, opening with a series of levels that demonstrated outstanding use of Havok physics.

You could slam enemy goons off roofs and walls, pop their heads through sheer mind-power, immolate or squish them with any part of the environment.

In short, spectacular, and this momentum carried through the majority of the game... until you got to the 'From the Ether & Beyond' level. Set inside a temple and forcing you to find invisible, damaging ghosts with a specific power, it was a complete departure from everything that went before.

Following this, the last level was way too corridor crawl-heavy than any of the wide open physics sandboxes that came before, and to top it off, The Mindgate Conspiracy literally ends on a cliffhanger; its characters facing certain death, only to pop up with "To be continued".

Now 13 years later and with Midway down the tubes, it goes without saying we'll never see the conclusion to such an initially fantastic game.