Whats the best Sequel to a horrible game?

Often times in video games there are sequels that blow there predecessors out of the water, and some of the time they're predecessors were garbage. So which of these kind of games were the best at truely being a step up, and beyond there predecessors awfulness.

Killzone 2: Don't we all wish we could forget killzone 1, and its broken design? As for killzone 2, it was awesome, and its design was vastly greater than the first.

Red Steal 2: This is more of a replacement than a sequel to a horrible wii game with an awesome premise. Great swordplay, and overall great design redeem a game that's better off forgotten.

Age of Empires 2: Age of empires 1 was a largly weak game that didn't have that much depth to it. As for AOE2, it became one of the best rts games ever made. Too bad AOE3 was just as bad as the first.

Street Fighter 2: Does anyone even remember the first Street Fighter game? No? Yea, theres a reason for that.

Spider man 2: This was one of those rare games based on a movie that was great while its predecessor was nothing more than the stereotypical bad movie based video game that it was. It could also be the foundation of the superpowered sandbox genre that spawned infamous, prototype, and that one hulk game I forgot the name of.

Street Fighter 2 wasn't horrible. Maybe Street Fighter 1, but 2 was ground breaking. :| Oh, I read it wrong. Nvm. :lol: Yeah. SF2 for me. :P

I enjoyed AoE 1 as much as I enjoyed 2.

I played the first streetfighter loads and it wasn't that good back in the day, so sf2 gets my vote for the amount of innovation and improvement from the original.

Oh, I clicked on this thread to SAY :

STREETFIGHTER 2...but you already had that in the OP.

I will answer, ALAN WAKE 2, lol. Just kdding, SF2 was my biggest answer.:P

KZ2 and Spiderman 2 were two other games I agree with to a point.

Spiderman 1 and KZ1 weren't horrible, they were just average. Check Metacritic. KZ2 and Spidey 2 though were stellar and absolutely amazing.

I doubt many in SW played Spidey 2 in it's time, as it was quite impressive, and when I have brought it up over the years in conversations about Crackdown, Prototype, Infamous, no one seems to remember it.:(

My favourite game there is AoEII, but I also loved AoE so I'll say Killzone 2. :)

Often times in video games there are sequels that blow there predecessors out of the water, and some of the time they're predecessors were garbage. So which of these kind of games were the best at truely being a step up, and beyond there predecessors awfulness.

Killzone 2: Don't we all wish we could forget killzone 1, and its broken design? As for killzone 2, it was awesome, and its design was vastly greater than the first.

Red Steal 2: This is more of a replacement than a sequel to a horrible wii game with an awesome premise. Great swordplay, and overall great design redeem a game that's better off forgotten.

Age of Empires 2: Age of empires 1 was a largly weak game that didn't have that much depth to it. As for AOE2, it became one of the best rts games ever made. Too bad AOE3 was just as bad as the first.

Street Fighter 2: Does anyone even remember the first Street Fighter game? No? Yea, theres a reason for that.

Spider man 2: This was one of those rare games based on a movie that was great while its predecessor was nothing more than the stereotypical bad movie based video game that it was. It could also be the foundation of the superpowered sandbox genre that spawned infamous, prototype, and that one hulk game I forgot the name of.

Lable1985

Street Fighter 2.

Just because I've never played the first, and looking at screens and gameplay it looks terrible in comparison.

The fact that Street Fighter 2 defined a genre and generation is enough, whilst street fighter 1 has had little credit nor mention.

Spiderman 2 was good, but then I thought the first one was pretty good too...

I'll go with SFII

Assassin's Creed 2 for mehiryu3

I wouldn't call the first game "horrible."

The core mechanics were good. It was just dreadfully repetitive.

Ubisoft could've have cut *hours* worth of that stupid filler content out of the game and it would've been better for it..

Red STEEL, god that bothers me, and the fact that NOBODY has said anything about it, on a GS forum no less, just wow.

But yea I voted for Spiderman, loved that game.

I didn't think Killzone 1 was horrible at all. It definitely wasn't perfect, nor the 'Halo killer' it was cracked up to be, but you could see from the start that this series had the potential to grow out to something big.

Make a bad game that sells amazing. Then make a good game that sells crap :lol:

Also Zone of the enders 2

ZOE1 is by no means crap, its just that its borderline impossible to play it after experiencing ZOE2. It makes it horrible

while assassins creed wasnt horrible AC2 was a huge step from it

DMC3 to DMC2.

I doubt many in SW played Spidey 2 in it's time, as it was quite impressive, and when I have brought it up over the years in conversations about Crackdown, Prototype, Infamous, no one seems to remember it.:(

SolidTy

Excuse me? Age of Empires 1 is awesome.

And probably Red Steel, or Killzone for improvements on bad games. Assassin's Creed 2 was a massive improvement too, but the first one wasn't horrible, just flawed.

Anyone who doesn't pick SFII from that small list you have provided obviously hasn't been gaming for very long.

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I doubt many in SW played Spidey 2 in it's time, as it was quite impressive, and when I have brought it up over the years in conversations about Crackdown, Prototype, Infamous, no one seems to remember it.:(

zarshack

Anyone who played Spidey 2 when it first came out KNOWS it was teh ****. I loved that game more than most superhero sandbox games of nowadays, heck I enjoyed it wayyyy more than InFamous.

It's biggest 2 flaws were it's lenght and variety (not having enough of). Either way great game.

Now to TC's answer, I have to say SF2.. Have you even seen how SF1 plays?...:|

Assassin's Creed 2 was a nice improvement over the first, despite still being inherently flawed.

Street Fighter 2 is the one and only choice!

If you choose anything else you guys need to go and play Fighting Street RIGHT NOW! It's really bad!

Oh, I clicked on this thread to SAY :

STREETFIGHTER 2...but you already had that in the OP.

I will answer, ALAN WAKE 2, lol. Just kdding, SF2 was my biggest answer.:P

KZ2 and Spiderman 2 were two other games I agree with to a point.

Spiderman 1 and KZ1 weren't horrible, they were just average. Check Metacritic. KZ2 and Spidey 2 though were stellar and absolutely amazing.

I doubt many in SW played Spidey 2 in it's time, as it was quite impressive, and when I have brought it up over the years in conversations about Crackdown, Prototype, Infamous, no one seems to remember it.:(

SolidTy

Not so much terrible, but more like I hated the first game: Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (I missed out on UN2). The fighting (in my opinion) is a lot more fun than the first game. And it has sort of a fun third-person action mode, sort of similar to MK: Deception's Konquest mode (only a bit better).

Too bad UN4 had to be disappointing compared to UN3.

I just want to ask how is Age of Empires 2 a horrible game? It was totally awesome for it's time. And so was its sequel.Crimsader

id hardly say that was the greatest list lol forgetting games such as Hitman 2andybobbins16

That's the exact game I tought of when I first saw this thread.

Oh, I clicked on this thread to SAY :

STREETFIGHTER 2...but you already had that in the OP.

I will answer, ALAN WAKE 2, lol. Just kdding, SF2 was my biggest answer.:P

KZ2 and Spiderman 2 were two other games I agree with to a point.

Spiderman 1 and KZ1 weren't horrible, they were just average. Check Metacritic. KZ2 and Spidey 2 though were stellar and absolutely amazing.

I doubt many in SW played Spidey 2 in it's time, as it was quite impressive, and when I have brought it up over the years in conversations about Crackdown, Prototype, Infamous, no one seems to remember it.:(

SolidTy

Ohhhhhh I remember it. How awesome was it to finally get to swing all over the city as Spidey? It was the first open-world game besides GTA that people cared about. The missions were meh and the side stuff was HORRIBLE, the citizens that gave you missions were glitchy and repetitive, but just swinging around was totally awesome.

Biggest Improvement: Street Fighter II
Street Fighter had two characters that were completely identical. Street Fighter II had one of the most iconic casts of any videogame ever made, and became the icon that everybody associated with fighting games. Everybody knows Street Fighter, and it's not because of Street Fighter, it's because of Street Fighter II.

Best Sequel to the Worst Game: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. The first game was god awful. The second game is actually pretty decent mechanically, and is really fun in a comical way. I love how the melee combat exists for no reason other than to get in more close-ups of 50 Cent.

You should check out the Capcom Collections on the PS2 to check out SF1, Champ and you will see how horrible it is compared to SF2. I actually tried it and it was bad. That is why it is almost forgotten about and is never mentioned.james007_14

Persona 2: Innocent Sin Not that the first game was horrible, it was decent and playable just that Persona 2 is a vast improvement.siLVURcross

For me it was. :( I agree with this.

assassins creed 2