Summary

• Grand Theft Auto: Transitioned from a top-down points-based game to a narrative-driven third-person title.
• Final Fantasy 7: Evolved from turn-based title to various RPG genres, including action RPG and MMORPG.
• Warcraft: Shifted from real-time strategy games to the massively successful MMORPG World of Warcraft.

Some video game series seem like they will go on forever. They start like any💎 other series with a single game. Then, more installments are released, and the next thing you know, they've stayed around through multiple console generations.

To do this, a series has to avoid getting stale. After a♒ll, you may want to play three versions of essentially the same game with a few alterations, but ten versions is pushing it. Plus, gaming as a whole changes, and series have to move with the times, or they'll feel dated. So, some of the longest-running series have had to change🦋 over the years. The following ones have made the most alterations.

8 ꦏ ꦺGrand Theft Auto

From Simple Top-Down Carnage To Third-Person Cinematic Adventure

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crime and open worlds have always been a part of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto series𒅌. Beyond those things, though, the first title is co✨mpletely different from the more recent games.

The original instalment didn't have much of a story or any cutscenes. It was also played from a top-do♏wn perspective, and much of the experience was about earning points. The newer games are third-person titles that put far more emphasis on narrative and dialogue. Also, there aren't points to collect.

7 𒊎 Fin𓂃al Fantasy 7

From A 2D Turn-Based RPG To Lots Of Different Types Of RPGS

Any series that lasts as long and has as many entries as Final Fantasy is going to change quite a bit over the years. The first title was 🌳a fairly typical 2D tur🌺n-based RPG. While the series hasn't strayed too far from RPGs in the main series, some entries are different types of role-playing games. For instance, there have been action RPGs and MMORPGs, and Final Fantasy 16 even leans toward being a soul-like game.

Even the entries that are turn-based aren't all the same, as the series has opted for multiple different versions of turn-based combat over the years. As for the 2Dꦰ aspect of the first game, that is rarely seen in the series anymore, as most are 3D and more cinematic in general.

6 💛 Call Of Duty

From Gritty Realism To Outlandish Multiplayer

Those who played the first f꧙ew Call of Duty games will remember ꧙them as gritty, serious first-person shooters. They were set in World War 2, realistic, and did not have online multiplayer. The same can't be said for most of the newer instalments.

In the recent Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone 2.0, you can see professional wrestler Cody Rhodes running around with a brightly colored gun, hitting his signature wrestling move on peopꦫle. That didn't happen in the original ⭕game, and not just because Cody Rhodes hadn't made his wrestling debut yet. The tone was completely different.

5 Reside♑nt Evil 𝓰

From Fixed Camera Angle Horror To First-Person Wackiness

Resident Evil has undergone major changes on multiple occasions. The early games were pure survival horror titles with fixed camera angles and limited resources. Then, the series became more action-packed, opting for a third-person camera view and replacing a lot of scares with a lot🐓 of enemies.

Yet, things changed again with Resident Evil 7,𝕴 which introduced a first-person view, brought back spooky moments, and ton🅺ed down some of the outrageousness. The next game, Village, was similar to RE7 but re-introduced more wackiness. So, overall, the series has changed a lot since the original title.

4 🅘 Prince Of Persia

From Platformer With Time Limits To Action-Adventure With Wallrunning

When people think of Prince of Persia, most think of a 3D action-adventure title with wall-running and swordplay. Much of that comes from Sands of Time, which was one of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the best games in the series.

However, the more recently released, The Lost Crown, is a 2.5D side-scrolling action-adventure game. Plus, the first Prince of Persia was more of a platformer that forced you to deal with a time limﷺit. So, the series has gone through൩ a few changes over the years.

3 Persona

From High School Heroes To High School Heroes With Social Lives

Revelations: Persona was the first entry in the Persona series. It revolved around a group of high school students who navigated dungeons and battled evil with the help of their ꧃Personas. Anyone who has played the later games will think that it sounds exactly like them and that the series hasn't changed at all.

However, the early titles didn't include social simulation elements. From Persona 3 onwards, your characters needed to balance both their regular daily lives as well as stop evil threats. Going about your day and making connections with peౠople is such a big part of the later titles that they don't feel like the early ones.

2 𓆏 🌱 Wolfenstein

From Escaping The Nazis To Killing All The Nazis

The original Castle Wolfenstein was released in 1981 and was a 2D stealth title. You did have a gun that you could use, but you were more encouraged to sneak through each proc✅edurally generated room to escape Castle Wolfenstein.

It's far less action-packed than the more recent first-person shooter entries in the series. Plus, there isn't as much focus on storytelling as in Wolfenstein: The New Order and The New Colossus. The newer games do have some stealth and a♈ lot of Nazis, like the originaꩲl title, but it's still a completely different experience.

1 Warcraft

From A Real-Time Strategy Title To An Endless MMORPG

The early Warcraft games were real-time strategy ti🧔tles where you controlled an army and battled other armies. Then, World of Warcraft was released, and the entire series changed. Wow isn't a real-time strategy game, nor does it rese♎mble one at all.

It's an MMORPG and one of the most successful games of all time. So, naturally, the developers committed to the MMORPG genre by releasing 168澳洲幸🍒运5开奖网:many expansion packs fo🅘r World of Warcraft. Besides a remastered version of the 🌊third game, Warcraft has moved away from real-time str𝐆ategy.