9 Video Game Sequels So Bad They Killed The Series

6. Perfect Dark Zero

Perfect Dark was intended by Rare to be a follow-up of sorts to GoldenEye 64, which is still considered one of the most groundbreaking games in the FPS genre. While Perfect Dark didn€™'t quite hit that height, it was still a great, inventive shooter, just one that occasionally suffered from graphical murkiness and frame rate issues, since it pushed the N64 to its absolute limits.

The game was a big hit, so Rare spent a few years developing a prequel which eventually became an Xbox 360 exclusive. Whatever freshness they brought to the original game had long since disappeared however, and Perfect Dark Zero was just a bland shooter that sold well based on the fact it was one of the earliest launch games for the system.

Nobody seemed to like it that much, and the series gradually faded into obscurity. There was a HD update of the original that got people excited briefly, even when they realised it hadn'€™t aged well. Since the release of Zero there€™'s been no word about a new Perfect Dark game, and that's unlikely to change.