"Rico's second outing drew praise as one of the most exciting open-world games in years."
"Age of War 2, similar to the first game but better in every way."
"Metroid Prime 3 is about saying goodbye, achieving closure on this storyline."
"Streets of Rage 2 rectified this by offering a game that looked arguably even prettier than the arcade classic."
"Portal 2 would receive a rousing critical response, quickly securing itself as yet another classic in Valve's repertoire."
"Ultimately, Splatterhouse Part 2 is exactly what the name suggests: It's more Splatterhouse and it's good."
"26 years later and the sequel to Beneath the Steel Sky is here."
"Dead Space Extraction proved to be one of its most warmly received. It wasn't a proper sequel, but it was an immensely strong game in a genre typically designed to hustle quarters out of arcade goers."
"It ultimately returned in Super Mario Odyssey."
"What's the game like? Does it feel like Overwatch 2? Is this what players of the game want?"
"In terms of Fnaf 2, this one is when everything went crazy."
"But honestly, I had a lot more fun with Banjo-Tooie this time around."
"I hope all gamers can tune in to Overwatch and see how great I think the gameplay plays in Overwatch 2."
"Halo 2 takes everything fantastic about Halo 1 and ups the ante like crazy."
"Overwatch 2 isn’t just an expansion, or an upgrade, or collection of content drops. It’s a new game."
"It's going to be called subnotica 2, yes it's going to be called subnotica 2."
"The action here is what really elevates it above the first game."
"Batman: Arkham City took everything that made the first game so great and applied it to a bigger and more open world."
"Assassin’s Creed II featured a much more engaging story than the first game."
"Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2: one of the greatest sequels of all time."
"As Jedi Survivor is almost the perfect sequel, sadly improvements in gameplay, story, and visuals, and more is mired in an undercooked package with horrible performance and fatal crashes plaguing at the very least this game's launch week."
"They actually combine this with outrun 2 so that comes to 30 courses."
"Gradius 5 feels exactly like a proper entry in the Gradius series but it also feels like a spiritual sequel to Treasure's Ikaruga."
"A Plague Tale Requiem is just a bigger, better version of the first game."
"Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward continues the events from Zero Escape: 999 into a new Nonary game."
"But yeah, do you want another Phantasmagoria? No, I don't."
"Mass Effect 2 took everything the first game did well and rolled with it." - 2010
"Doom Eternal is the sequel to the seminal Doom 2016...turns out it was essentially perfect."
"The mere existence of Breath of the Wild 2 is encouraging."
"Fans who played the last game know that they were able to visit six of the nine realms in God of War. You'll be able to visit all nine."
"I'm super excited to see where it all comes together in Mass Effect 3."
"This game's great, it's basically Battlefield 4 version 2."
"If you enjoyed the previous game you will enjoy this one for sure."
"Devil May Cry 5: The long-awaited mainline sequel in the Devil May Cry series."
"Psychonauts 2 picks up where the original game left off in 2005."
"Jak 2 Renegade (as it was known here in Europe) was such a huge departure."
"The Thousand-Year Door is far from the lazy sequel it could have been."
"Spyro 3 manages to succeed everywhere the first and especially the second game failed."
"Luigi's Mansion 3 is the sequel I've been waiting for. It's the pinnacle of Nintendo quality and I love it to pieces."
"Metroid 2 brings back every ability from the original game, though this time you start off with the long beam, the morph ball, and 30 missiles."
"It's hard for me to see Breath of the Wild 2 coming so soon."
"The Sleeper Simulant was the best weapon in Destiny 1 and it has returned to reprise its role."
"Super Mario Maker 2 is almost doing everything I wanted."
"It honestly feels like a true proper follow-up to games like Turtles in Time, the Manhattan Project."
"This is every bit of what I wanted from Breath of the Wild and more."
"I'd love to see another Portal game one day."
"Silent Hill 2 represents something we just don't see enough of nowadays: a sequel to a fan favorite that's not only brave enough to change up the established story and characters but also smart enough to only improve on the gameplay."
"The Last of Us Part 2 is going to be something very special indeed and we simply cannot wait to play."
"A mystery once thought solved, Allen Wake 2 reopens the case for what's possible in its genre. It's a delight to relive classic horror titles through Modern mistakes."
"Each character's personal journey in Digital Devil Saga 2 completes their character development from the first game."
"Doom Eternal: As a follow-up to 2016's research and excellence, Doom Eternal knocked demon slang out of the big [ __ ] park."
"Warrior Within surpasses the previous game in more ways than one."
"Dragon Age 4 definitely revitalizes any hope for the return of deeper and darker themes in the next Dragon Age game."
"Luigi's Mansion 3: a really fun sequel, even though it's not the most faithful one."
"Is Crash 4 'It's About Time' the sequel we've all been asking for? Absolutely."
"Still, the Prototype faithful maintain a semblance of hope for a third installment."
"It's genuinely impressive. More satisfying than the base game."
"Insomniac Games is back in the driver's seat for our next game Marvel Spider-Man 2."
"I mean it's not what you expect from a promote sport sequel but I mean I really really liked what they did."
"GTA 6 is gonna blow GTA 5 away, guys. It's gonna blow it away."
"Breath of the Wild 2 is creating a split timeline now."
"The jump from Xenoverse 1 to 2 was massive, imagine what Xenoverse 3 could bring after all these years."
"Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon expanded upon Necrozma's story and Ultra Space."
"Legacy of Goku 2 is a much more enjoyable game."
"Fans will lap it up, of course, and rightly so. Horizon Forbidden West offers much, much more of the things they loved about the first game."
"Expect a few surprises. It's worth remembering that a sequel being unexpected says nothing about the quality of the game."
"Ultimate Custom Night turned a humorous post-game mode into a legendary epilogue."
"This new saga of Kingdom Hearts is set to remind us of all of that."
"Mass Effect 2 takes the series' examination of mortality more seriously than its predecessor."
"The storytelling and character development are heavily improved."
"It's everything I want out of an iterative sequel."
"Another Star Wars bounty hunter game would be rad I feel like bounty hunter barely scratched the surface of what was possible with this concept."
"A worthy sequel." - Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
"It's just a great big hug for anybody who misses how things were in Fallout 2."
"Everything about Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a step up above the original, almost to a fault."
"Well done to everyone at Arrowhead, well done to Hell Divers 2."
"There couldn't be a better time to play these games as it's already been confirmed that Fuga Melodies of Steel is just the first entry in what will be a Trilogy of games."
"Ukulele and the Impossible Lair then is precisely what I had hoped for a spiritual successor to DKC that stands strong next to both the original games and retro studios own take on the formula."
"Enjoying OverWatch 2 is an exercise in cautious optimism, not just in the future direction of its ever-changing lore and world but in the idea that years of new content will ultimately deliver on the promise of a full sequel."
"This game is called Deviant Journey 2 and as you can tell by the title, it is a Demon Slayer game."
"But there are a few things I want to mention really quickly: While Soul Hackers is technically a sequel to the original Devil Summoner, just like the Persona games, it features a standalone story."
"The music of Super Mario maker 2 contains even more music than its predecessor, in addition to the returning tracks of Super Mario maker."
"Arkham City as a sequel does just about everything right."
"Wow talk about chalk and cheese after the first one this one is a world apart but most welcome I tell ya the take of death fantastic fight."
"Midnight Club was such a cool series at the time... I would love to see a sequel for it in the coming months."
"The series did receive an unexpected continuation in 2022, however, with Pocky & Rocky Reshrined, so if you were a fan of the shrine maiden and tanuki connection then there's no longer any excuse not to get back on that goblin blasting action."