Game sequels: Same game, different box.......... (Way of Improving of Games)

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Product:	Way of Improving of Games
Date:	31/03/01 (10 review reads)
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Advantages: Sequels provide more hours of gameplay

Disadvantages: Some sequels are just the original with a few improvements and a different box.

Tomb raider, FIFA and monkey island are three very different games, which have all been very successful. But is doesn't stop there because these games like many others are so popular that the developers decide to produce sequels.

Sequels provide gamers with many more hours of gamplay and enjoyment. Its also true that sequels are usually a very much improved version of the one before. For example the interface maybe much better and easy to use, or the sequel may use a more advanced 3D engine providing better graphics.

So sequels are generally good things, improving on the original and getting rid of a few of the orginal bugs too.

But some sequels seem very similar to the previous version and it seems like the developers are just trying the make more money from the same old original, but with abit of a face-lift.

One such game is EA's FIFA, of which the latest version is FIFA 2001. But if you compare FIFA 2000 to FIFA 2001 you will be hard pushed to find many improvments or major differences. It is very difficult to improve the best football game going, which is so near to perfection already.

However if you compared the original FIFA game to FIFA 2001 you would be very impressed by FIFA 2001's massive improvements in gameplay, sound and graphics.
And so the point is one or two sequels of a game is fair enough, a sequel each year however, which is improving very little of the version before is just not on.

Sequels need to have alot of time put into them and show quite large improvements on the original or the previous version.

Developers should not try to re-sell the original game, calling it a sequel, put into a different box with minimal improvements to the original.

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