Everywhere you look nowadays, games are having sequels released left, right and centre. The craze for commercial exploitation of a franchise is giving us as the fans plenty of new games, but not the sequels we wanted. Whilst we do get the Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Left4Dead 2, we don’t get as many sequels to the better (and older) games that we would love. So, developers, are you listening? This is what we want to see.

5. Lost: Via Domus 2

I can already hear your confusion whilst reading that, but I did just say what you think I did. Lost: Via Domus was a poor game. BUT, imagine after the ending of Lost later this year, a game not bound by an unfinished story, a full voice acting cast, a more open world and a less linear campaign. Lost embodies every great thing you need for a good game, the story, the characters, the enigmas, the morality, the relationships and the weaponplay, and if effort was made, we could see the best movie / TV tie-in game. Now that would be wonderful, wouldn’t it?

4. Bully 2

Grand Theft Auto is a wonderful game series, with the only flaw being that whilst it is fun, we cannot really relate to a drug smuggling, prostitute pimping gangster who goes around bumping people off and being all… criminal. However, replace the crime-ridden city with a school and the drug smuggling with wedgie giving and you’ve found an environment everyone knows and everyone loves. Tongue-in-cheek humour, great gameplay and many fun endeavors left Bully as a much loved game that screams ‘sequel’. Rumours are circulating about just that, and we wholeheartedly agree. If only because we want to experience the school life as we should of, instead of being a real life goody-two-shoes.

3. Dino Crisis 4

If we exclude the woeful Dino Crisis 3 from our memories, the last (decent) Dino Crisis came out for the PlayStation 1. Now, Capcom have shown with Resident Evil 5 just how fantastic they can make a survival / horror game on this generations consoles, and a makeover for Dino Crisis in glorious HD would be a welcome change from the rather lacking alternatives in Turok and Monster Hunter. Resident Evil created a fantastic game with fantasy creatures, but imagine being able to experience being chased by a T-Rex, perhaps without an exploding-head-infested-crawly-typical-Resident Evil-monster-thing thing.

2. KOTOR 3

Yes, I know The Old Republic will be the next installment of the Knights of the Old Republic series, but as a PC MMORPG, it’s not suitable for a fan of the console RPG we’re used to. A new installment for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 would be a fitting move for Bioware / Obsidian who have both had much success with Mass Effect 2 and the much anticipated Fallout: New Vegas. The two biggest RPG developers, arguably one of the best RPG series of all times, and an eager audience waiting for their next fix of Pazaak.

1. Hogs Of War 2

Basically, think of Worms. Now, take away the Worms and add Pigs. Change 2D to 3D and voila, Hogs of War is born! Boasting the much adored Worms gameplay, adding some RPG elements to it (you were able to ‘upgrade’ your pigs to equip with more health, new weapons etc) and an unrivalled amount of humour from Rik Mayall, Infogrames unleashed one of the greatest games of the PlayStation era. HoW2 was slated for an April 2009 release but… well, that date has passed with no release. Even if it was simply a remastered Arcade release with new content, more Hogs would certainly offer the greatest multiplayer experience for all the family.  Take a peek at Hogs of War here.