THQ's Comeback: 7 Other Video Game Franchises That Need Reviving
3. Conker
Conker started life as another one of Rare's excellent, child-friendly platformers. And then, he became the antithesis of just that. Conker's Bad Fur Day, as it released, was a crass, rude and downright hilarious platformer that parodied everything from the late 90s and early 2000s, all the while being a great game in the process.
We did see an (inferior) remaster of the original platformer, and an attempted continuation in Conker: Live and Reloaded on the original Xbox, but a third-person shooter just wasn't where Rare's strengths lay even though the online combat was popular for a while into 2007. Coupled with the censoring of many of the original game's best moments and characters (including the lyrics to boss monster The Great Mighty Poo's song), Live and Reloaded just didn't do the squirrel justice.
This was then followed up with placing Conker in Microsoft's ill-fated Project Spark, and the less said there the better. Rare had proved that they were capable of making an excellent game with a tone that was distinct from the rest of their library, and there's room for Rare to bring him back alongside modern 3D platformers like Yooka-Laylee and A Hat in Time.