9 Video Game Sequels So Bad They Killed The Series
2. Dino Crisis 3
Dino Crisis was a ready-made franchise. Surely combining Resident Evil style horror with dinosaurs is a license to print money.
The first two games did well critically and commercially, but Dino Crisis 3 made the tactical error most horror movie franchises make when they run out of ideas; they went to space. Maybe in the right hands there might have been a decent game to come from the idea, but Dino Crisis 3 was not that game.
It famously has one of the worst camera systems in gaming, where it always appears to be strategically placed to cause the player maximum annoyance at any given time. There's a shocking lack of enemy variety, meaning youll quickly get bored blasting the same type of enemy again and again, and for a Survival Horror game there's a curious lack of tension or horror.
Needless to say fans reacted badly, and Capcom themselves have admitted the weak reception is the reason they haven't gone back to the series in the following years.