Dubious Honors

Least Improved Sequel

There were a lot of great sequels released in 2009, many of which we're recognizing elsewhere in these awards. Not all of the sequels that came out this year were significant improvements over their predecessors, though, and some really weren't improvements at all. With this award, we recognize the sequels that were not necessarily the worst games outright, but rather those that failed most spectacularly to improve upon previous games.

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21 Comments

  • Tomrock101

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:20 pm GMT

    Godfather wasn't least improved. It got worse.

  • Nuggetol

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:39 am GMT

    Since it's least improved sequel i can't complain about most of those games, if it was worst sequel then i could complain about 7 of those choices.

  • STARS_Splinter

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 5:04 am GMT

    Assault on Dark Athena wasn't a sequel.

    HavQ-san - Halo 3: ODST wasn't a sequel either, though I completely agree about Left 4 Dead 2. Tekken 6 was woeful, though.

  • HavQ-san

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 4:31 pm GMT

    Oh, also: why the hell didn't you put Halo ODST and Left 4 Dead 2 on the list? They're practically clones of the previous games in the series.

  • HavQ-san

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 4:28 pm GMT

    Katamari and Tekken whooped previous installments' butts.

  • bm1212

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 1:02 pm GMT

    ODST. It was basically the same as halo 3 with few minor tweaks.

  • Jonny7892

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 6:44 am GMT

    Got to agree with everyone here MW2 should definitely be in here

  • myungish

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 2:11 pm GMT

    mw2

  • alibabba13

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 11:03 am GMT

    No ODST or MW2?

  • Robert-ace

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 10:41 am GMT

    MW2 was almost no improvement on CoD4

  • oista

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 7:37 am GMT

    Left4dead2?

  • mirriorman

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 2:11 am GMT

    re 5

  • chocolate1325

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 8:05 am GMT

    Resident Evil 5 had to be their it is a big dissapointment compared to 4.

  • efc91

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 1:17 am GMT

    Godfather 2 was crap but so was godfather 1

  • lukas1051

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 10:48 am GMT

    Gotta be Resident Evil 5, good game, but how do you improve on 4?

  • English-Lion

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 9:20 am GMT

    i vote for The Godfather II crap game!
    Least Improved Sequel YES!

  • Hazat36

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:24 am GMT

    Couldn't agree more with Coruscant there

  • coruscant

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 4:23 am GMT

    Voted Battlefront just because I want LucasArts to make a proper Battlefront 3 and ensure they make it good.

  • Joeker96

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 3:32 am GMT

    I voted Ultimate allicance, it was an average game, but judt didn't do anything to the forula apart from enhance the graphics

  • tig1979

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 2:09 am GMT

    I voted Re5 too, hate it, nothing like the quality RE games of old

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