Just to clarify my point - I am busy reading on Gamespot.
Another Tomb Raider is in the works, another Hitman and another Commandos Game.
Commandos won't be the in the same style of the originals, so we will have to wait and see what happens.
Can you really make the argument for modern games being original? It's ridiculous. Just look how much of the same thing is being done all these years later ...
When did the first Tomb Raider come out 1997?
Oh and read this - this just shows exactly what the industry is all about at this stage - BUSINESS.
Kinda like EA games - BUY EVERYTHING.
http://www.ferrago.com/story/5606
"It's a great shame that yet another developer has to go to the wall because of the outdated business model that the games industry still clings to. The astronomical costs of development for the next-gen consoles coupled with developers having to fight for investment and take risk on content creation in a manner that other media industries would sneer at, the days of smaller, innovative developers could well be drawing to a most unfortunate close."
That says it all.
There are the facts - the gaming industry is an old hag. Stale and rotten.
Another good read
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/596/596734p1.html
So its not just us bitching and maoning - the developers are doing it as well.
So I guess we should point fat fingers at the publishers.