God of War did a great job of revitalizing and reinvigorating an older franchise, and transporting the core mechanics and narrative into something completely different. What other franchises could do something similar?
I personally think Syphon Filter would be something cool to bring back, especially now that Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid have essentially fallen to the wayside. The series ended on a cliffhanger on a portable game, but you can come back into by setting it 15 years later and opening on an unnamed American agent, now aged and scarred, in a secret Chinese black site plotting a prison revolution and escape before making his way back to America to expose government malfeasance and prevent a powerful terrorist group from unleashing a worldwide attack. All his old enemies and friends are either gone, disappeared, or dead, so he's on his own to cobble together a group that can take these baddies on. By setting it a long time after the original games, you don't need to bring in the baggage beyond Logan being betrayed and left for dead, finding himself in a foreign prison, and essentially losing. Everybody he knew and cared about is now gone, so he's alone in the world and he has to put his ass in the fire again to try and save everybody, but... is it still worth it after everything he's gone through?
Starring... KIEFER SUTHERLAND AS GABE LOGAN
I personally think Syphon Filter would be something cool to bring back, especially now that Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid have essentially fallen to the wayside. The series ended on a cliffhanger on a portable game, but you can come back into by setting it 15 years later and opening on an unnamed American agent, now aged and scarred, in a secret Chinese black site plotting a prison revolution and escape before making his way back to America to expose government malfeasance and prevent a powerful terrorist group from unleashing a worldwide attack. All his old enemies and friends are either gone, disappeared, or dead, so he's on his own to cobble together a group that can take these baddies on. By setting it a long time after the original games, you don't need to bring in the baggage beyond Logan being betrayed and left for dead, finding himself in a foreign prison, and essentially losing. Everybody he knew and cared about is now gone, so he's alone in the world and he has to put his ass in the fire again to try and save everybody, but... is it still worth it after everything he's gone through?
Starring... KIEFER SUTHERLAND AS GABE LOGAN
