Games Radar examines the best franchises that no longer serve up sweet fruit in abundance. Once popular, these critically acclaimed titles have recently taken a nose dive for whatever reason to become the rotten stinkers (most) are today.The reason? Maybe the original series creator bailed. Maybe a game gets lost in translation from system to system. Or maybe the creators lose sight of what originally made the game great (hint: pressure from publishers). Regardless, here are seven controversial franchises with quality and/or consistency issues. And you don't have to look far to figure out which series took the top dishonors.
