Five Video Game Franchises that Need to End

Once upon a time in an article far far away in my backlog I wrote an article about movie franchises that needed to end. Since then some of those movies have gone on to have sequels. Since Hollywood has denied to listen to me maybe I will fair better with the video game industry (probably not). These are five video game franchises that need to end.

Video Game Franchises that Need to End: Tomb Raider
There are some ideas that can go on forever. There will always be video games about alien invasion. When I'm 83 years old and on my death bed somebody somewhere will release another video game about World War II. These are the categories of genres that will never get old. Archeology digs? Not so much.

Lara Croft was the first huge female video game character to come along since Samus revealed she was a female in the NES days. She was the female Indiana Jones, but it's over. Tomb Raider is no longer a new idea. Babes in video games is no longer a new concept and the Tomb Raider movies sure didn't help the franchise.

Video Game Franchises that Need to End: WWE Smackdown!
I used to be a die hard wrestling fan but have stopped watching due to the ridiculous storylines. I still enjoy the actual wrestling though so I pick up the Smackdown game every year to be able to execute a nice Shining Wizard to somebody's head or lock somebody in the Sharpshooter but every year the game is the same.

Somebody needs to inform THQ and WWE that most of the time what sports games do is get better each year and by get better I don't mean this year we have ladders in our matches! This year you can wrestle for Raw, Smackdown and ECW! I mean real changes. At the very least you can expect updated roster changes in other sports games but since the WWE roster is getting worse each year this isn't a plus for them.