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Sequel video games
- Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game)Konami released Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation in 1998. The game directed by Hideo Kojima required players to navigate a nuclear weapons facility…
- Suikoden TacticsSuikoden Tactics arrived on the PlayStation 2 in late 2005, and it carried a quiet distinction: it was the first game in the long-running Suikoden series to…
- Sid Meier's Antietam!Sid Meier's Antietam! arrived in December 1999 as something unusual: a commercial wargame that bypassed retail stores entirely.
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionSuper Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition arrived in Japanese arcades in 2010 with a question hanging over it: was this the final chapter of one of fighting…
- Final Fantasy XII: Revenant WingsSquare Enix announced Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings in September 2006. This announcement marked the beginning of a new chapter for the franchise.
- Street Fighter II TurboCapcom released Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting in 1992 as an enhancement kit for existing arcade cabinets. This distribution method allowed…
- Dissidia 012 Final FantasyDissidia 012 Final Fantasy arrived on the PlayStation Portable in March 2011 carrying an unusual promise: it was simultaneously a prequel and a remake of the…
- Lineage WLineage W arrived on the 4th of November 2021, not with a quiet launch but with a declaration. NCSoft's chief creative officer, Taek Jin Kim, called it "the…
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterIn 1997, Capcom released a fighting game that introduced a mechanic players had never seen before. The Variable Assist allowed a player to summon their…
- Silent Hill 3Silent Hill 3 dropped onto PlayStation 2 shelves in May 2003, and from its first moments it placed a 17-year-old girl named Heather Mason in a nightmare she…
- Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactStreet Fighter III: 2nd Impact landed in arcades in October 1997, and it arrived carrying a quiet distinction that no other game in Capcom's CPS3 library…
- Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years asks a question most sequels are afraid to pose: what happens seventeen years later, when the heroes have grown old and…
- Street Fighter II: Champion EditionStreet Fighter II: Champion Edition arrived in arcades in 1992 with a promise: every fighter you had faced, you could now become.
- Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VIIDirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII arrived in 2006 as something nobody expected from Square Enix: a third-person shooter set inside one of gaming's most…
- The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shipped seven million units in its first week of release, and within two years had crossed twenty million sold. That was 2011.
- Super Street Fighter IVSuper Street Fighter IV arrived in April 2010 carrying a lower price tag than a standard retail release, which was itself a statement about what kind of…
- Final Fantasy VII RebirthFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth landed on the PlayStation 5 on the 29th of February 2024 - one of the first major video game releases to arrive on Leap Day.
- Final Fantasy XIII-2Final Fantasy XIII-2 arrived in Japanese stores on the 15th of December 2011, carrying an unusual burden: it was designed from the start as an answer to…
- Street Fighter IIIStreet Fighter III arrived in arcades in 1997. It followed 1991's Street Fighter II, the game that had turned the series into a phenomenon.
- Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike arrived in arcades in May 1999, and almost nobody cared. The game sold modestly, drew mixed reviews, and landed during a…
- Final Fantasy X-2Final Fantasy X-2 arrived in Japan in 2003 as something the series had never attempted: a direct sequel. Every numbered Final Fantasy before it told a…
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIIILightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII opens on a brutal countdown: thirteen days until the world ends, and only one person to save every soul in it.
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty reached North American shelves on the 13th of November 2001. Hyper Magazine had already named it the most anticipated…
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two WorldsMarvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds arrived in February 2011 carrying a weight of nearly a decade of silence. The series had gone dark after legal…
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 arrived in stores on the 15th of November 2011, less than nine months after the game it was based on had launched.
- Suikoden VSuikoden V arrived on the Sony PlayStation 2 in 2006 as the fifth and final main installment in Konami's long-running Suikoden series.
- Metal Gear 2: Solid SnakeMetal Gear 2: Solid Snake sat at the No. 1 spot on MSX Magazine's chart of Japan's 30 best-selling MSX games in October 1990.
- Baldur's Gate 3Baldur's Gate 3 reached players on the 3rd of August 2023, ending a development that had nearly not started at all. Wizards of the Coast, the publisher…
- Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II arrived in arcades in 1991 and changed the way people played games in public spaces. By 1994, an estimated 25 million people in the United…
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)Star Wars Battlefront II arrived in 2017, the fourth mainline entry in the Battlefront series and a sequel to DICE's 2015 reboot of the franchise.
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed IIStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II dropped into players' hands on the 26th of October 2010, and immediately posed an uncomfortable question: what does it mean…
- Astro BotTeam Asobi began work on Astro Bot almost immediately after finishing Astro's Playroom in 2020. The project took roughly three years to complete with a…
- Suikoden IIISuikoden III arrived on the PlayStation 2 in 2002 with an idea that was genuinely strange for its era: what if a war story had no heroes and no villains…
- Diablo IVDiablo IV crossed one billion dollars in total revenue by September 2024, making it one of the fastest commercial rises in the history of its genre.