There are always going to be titles from a previous generation, if not several, that a small following of gamers believe deserves to achieve triple-A status in the current iteration of video game consoles. While we all love Jungler, I’m sure we can agree that it doesn’t deserve a full fledged game on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii complete with a narrative that eventually gets rolled into a big-budget summer film. Point being, there are franchises that publishers and developers are simply holding the rights to that we all couldn’t wait to get our hands on. After all, look at games like Prince of Persia! What started out as a game created for the Apple II became one of the greatest rebooted franchises of this console generation. In the meantime, here are at least ten classic games that if a new version isn’t in the works, then some developer should certainly be devoted to bringing them back into the industry, one way or another.
10. Blast Corps.: Originally developed on the N64 by Rare, it’s not difficult to make the connection necessary to understand why this game would be awesome on Xbox LIVE, let alone as a complete game for the 360. For the unbaptized in the art of complete and utter destruction, Blast Corps faces the player with a nigh impossible situation. A carrier transporting a disarmed, but not quite inert nuclear warhead for safe disposal, begins leaking and in the infinite wisdom of having an artificial intelligence transporting nuclear materials locks in the most direct route to the detonation site and goes. That's where the gameplay and inherent awesome that goes with it comes in. Utilizing a amalgamation of vehicles, explosives and even power armor, you make your way across the country and even to the Moon in your quest to destroy every structure that stands in your way. While the game consistently propels the player forward on a perpetual quest to clear the way for the nukes, there are still puzzle elements within the levels that keep the game consistently interesting throughout. Ultimately, for every puzzle level that makes your life a small, personal hell -- there will be several levels that seem like a playground as you destroy every last damn thing in sight. My only question is why Rare and Microsoft have left this intellectual property remains dormant for so long?
9. Turok: Before anyone stops me on this one, I want you to take a good look at the original Turok and it's sequel, Seeds of Evil, on the Nintendo 64. Then, jump forward about a decade and have a look at the latest Turok iteration as released on the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. Go ahead; go to youtube and check that shit out. Those are not the same game at all, let alone seem like they come from the same franchise at all. Just because guns and dinosaurs are in the same goddamn game doesn't allow them to share the same license to a franchise. Dino Crisis on the Playstation, Jurassic Park on the Genesis and then the shameless facade that Turok became as opposed to how awesome the first two games in the series were emphasizes that basic elements do not make a franchise so much as the quality that goes into them. Whoever got their hands on that license and drove it into the ground needs to be abandoned on an island full of Velociraptors with enough time to realize that they're completely screwed before they get eaten so they have a crystal clear understanding of how much they've messed Turok and his series up. Get back to the roots. Turok is not a Space Marine. Turok is a badass who kicks a lot of ass and fights dinosaurs! How do you mess this up?! Even if the next-gen is nothing more than a remade version of the original PC and N64 version, it just might breath some life back into the series.
8. Goldeneye: I know this is nothing but a pipe-dream and have made a relative amount of peace with that fact, but if Rare has anything to learn about the Xbox 360 and it's community is that the gamers who own those systems haven't forgotten the quality that went into the originals. If the quality remains consistent in the same way Banjo Kazooie, the original Perfect Dark or hell, even the original Battletoads was, it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to understand that were Microsoft, Nintendo and Rare able to figure out how to split the money -- it would sell, no doubt.
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