This decade spored some new video game series as well as ditching some others, what are the top 3 which are welcome to stay?
Rabbids
While considered part of the Rayman series, Rabbids in there own right had become more then just a spin-off series to the popular platformer.
They became the most weirdest creatures in the world, and almost everyone fell in love with them. What Ubisoft had created as something new and interesting.
They appeared in their first game under “Rayman Raving Rabbids”, featuring Rayman- in not a platformer but a mini game compilation. This caused some issues, as many Rayman fans saw the Rabbids as an issue- and wanted a new Rayman game not more Rabbids.
For three titles which appeared on almost every console available at the time, Rayman Raving Rabbids 1, 2 and TV party featured out of this world mini games which bordered on the obsurbed. Most of the mini games had the goal of messing things up. The original game had more of a set story line (and a quite interesting use of Rayman), but Rayman disappeared even from 2 and TV party.
All was not lost, when Ubisoft finally decided the series had earned its wings they announced a new game. Rabbids Go Home was a fresh new approach with the Rabbids. Gone where pointless mini games, replaced with an adventure game. The amazing thing is, Go Home kept the charm and stupidity that the Rabbids where known for in the original titles.
Appearing on other games as camos and even toys, shirts and other goodies. Rabbids are now an acceptable franchise and series. In the short time which it evolved late in the decade, it has successfully shead its original series from itself and become a spin-off series to be proud off.
Another Code
Another Code is going to be on this list, and most likely more lists. The series started as a single title on the Nintendo DS system. Developed by Cing, it lead to future titles in the series (Another Code R in 2009) and other novel games by Cing (Hotel Dusk series and Again).
Another player from mid in the decade, the original was considered something amazing and special for the Nintendo DS. The shame lines within the series, considered only a sleeper hit compared to its younger brother series which started with Hotel Dusk.
An interesting story and mythology was formed within the text based adventure game, the latest title in the series Another Code R won Game of the Year from us for 2009.
The Sims
The Sims takes home our final spot in new series of the decade. Spinning off from the original Sims series which consisted of various activities slapped with “Sims” then “X” and as well was the earlier Sim City series- fans where amazed and shocked when you could finally go away from the city and into the home.
It started when the game was released in 2000, the beginning of the decade started this casual revolution and you could say that this one of the pioneers.
The goal was simple, entertain your dumb founded Sim and then build and manage your life and house. Over the years the game grew with expansion packs which opened up new areas and new things to do, keeping the game fresh and innovative.
Four years later however the time had come for EA to release a new Sims game, not a boring expansion pack (or the future “Stuff Packs which started on The Sims 2) no Sims 2 was now revealed and released.
At the end of the day what Sims 2 did when it first came out was give the original a nice coat of paint then looked at all the expansion packs and decided what ones where worth putting in the base game, before releasing more expansion packs on its own.
Nothing major changed until Sims 3, a much more casual approach, but at the end of the day a more solid structure when it comes to building your home, a few things which the Sims 2 pioneered on where thrown out the window, giving the game an unfinished feel.