although, they may have changed it, I wouldn’t know because I reverted back to normal after noticing that it had deleted 3 of my games. Oh btw, you just go to your beta prefs and change it back to none to go back to the old steam.

A lot of classics of course have no sequels, but many classic characters do go through more then one story, it depends. I’m not too bothered as long as games are fun, but it is a tad excessive. Films commonly do this for the big ones though. Toy Story 3: How Pixar Had To Bring Back This For Some Reason, heh.

Usually, however, it isn’t called “Sherlock Holmes 2″, I don’t understand why they think people need such title repetition and numbered sequencing.

I’ve got nothing against the actual sequels themselves mostly … in fact, I love Half Life 2.

I didn’t find Surrogates terribly fun, sadly, since it was a poor sci-fi film (it largely made next to no sense and meandered along haphazardly, even if the concept would have been interesting it left a sour taste in the mouth!). I saw your comparison, I guess it makes a lot of sense comparing them, just not my cup of tea to reflect on either film much – talk about them and they’ll make sequels (well, Avatar will get a sequel anyway…).

But in any case, see Moon if you can, a much better film.

In general, Andrew’s reading is spot on.

Comparing such games to the film would need a whole different article, since none of them I think resemble really the nature of the film or its contents – similar, perhaps, but on an entirely different level (and from my perspective you’d want the player of such a videogame to be the protagonist in the Truman world, not the controller).