Are Xbox games going the way of Hollywood blockbusters these days? Trilogy after trilogy before the first in the series is even released. Starwars, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, Jurassic Park and more recently; Spiderman, Transformers etc etc, Hollywood has been making trilogies since forever. Xbox has its own share of trilogies as well though which started with Halo and the Prince of Persia series. Here is a short list of the planned or likely trilogies for the Xbox 360.

Confirmed

• Assassin’s Creed
• Mass Effect

Likely

• Gears of War
• Grand Theft Auto
• Condemned
• Saint’s Row

I guess who can blame em? Everybody is out to make money and when you have a winning idea like Gears of War, you make as many sequels as you can to get as much profit as possible. I just wonder if a little of bit of originality isn’t lost in the process? Is the video game industry going to end up stagnant like mainstream hip hop? Will all Xbox games eventually become trilogies or more which limit the number of original IP’s to just a few?