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** ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]'' then takes place two years after the last game of the series. However its ending {{spoiler|has Robotnik take over the world.}} This doesn't sit well with the next game in the series, ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]''.
*** Unless that's the reason Sonic is trashing an Eggman armada at the start of Unleashed.
** In ''[[Sonic Battle]]'', Shadow has his memory back, or at least remembers the events of ''Sonic Adventure 2''. ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' contradicts this, with Shadow having contracted amnesia thanks to his fall at the end of ''SA2'' ([[Laser-Guided Amnesia|and maybe some other factors]]) and he still doesn't have memory of ''SA2''{{'}}s events by the end of ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'', making ''Battle''{{'}}s place in continuity very iffy.
*** Are you sure? IIRC, he was pretty well-informed by the end of ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]''.
*** ''Battle'' occurs after ''Shadow'' (as Shadow clearly remembers his past) but was released slightly before ''Heroes''. Where it falls into the overall timeline is unknown, but it is referenced heavily in ''Chronicles''.
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* ''[[Fable II]]'' is set 500 years after ''[[Fable (video game)|Fable I]]'', with a different protagonist.
* Each ''[[MOTHER]]'' game is set in a different time period, with mostly new characters and locations. In fact, the only connection between the first two is the name of the [[Big Bad]], [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Giegue/Gyiyg/Giygas]], plus a few items and attack names. The connection between the second and third ''seems'' even more tenuous, going from [[Eagle Land|a good-natured parody of modern America]] to a mysterious frontier town in the "Nowhere Islands", {{spoiler|until the [[Big Bad]]--Giygas's returning [[The Dragon|henchman]]--explicitly references the events of #2.}}
* The ''[[Wild
** If that's the case, the games take place at least multiple millennia apart with [[Fridge Logic]] mass-reconfiguration of the planet's continental crust fragments. But hey, if the planet's center is filled with supernatural blue mud, you can [[Hand Wave]] just about anything.
** Actually, it was set in the same "universe" but not the same planet.
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== Stealth-Based Games ==
* All the numbered ''[[Metal Gear]]'' sequels followed a linear chronology with one notable exception: ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' serves as a prequel to the entire ''Metal Gear'' canon, being set decades before the events of the very first ''[[Metal Gear
== Survival Horror ==
* The ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games release order mostly matches the chronology of the series, except for the prequel ''[[Resident Evil
** The spin-offs are a bit looser with chronology—the two ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak|Outbreak]]'' games take place roughly concurrently with ''2'' and ''3'', the final chapter of ''[[Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles|Umbrella Chronicles]]'' takes place a year before ''[[Resident Evil 4|4]]'', and ''[[Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles|Darkside Chronicles]]'' is set to include a scenario showing Leon in South America two years before ''4'' that'll show what happened between Leon and {{spoiler|Krauser (before his [[Face Heel Turn]])}}.
** The 3DS game, ''[[Resident Evil: Revelations]]'', is set before ''[[Resident Evil 5|RE5]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City]]'' takes place just before and during ''[[Resident Evil 2]]''.
== Third-Person Shooter ==
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* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' was written with each story assumed to be the last (as admitted by the author) so as such several of the later ones answer questions rather then continuing the story. As such The Magician's Nephew was written and published 6th but takes place first. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe which was first is second. A horse and His Boy was written fourth, published fifth, and set during a timeskip in LW&W. Though with those three sorted out the rest follow order of publication: Prince Caspian (Which is set centuries after LW&W), Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Silver Chair, and Last Battle. Plus in world the time shifts because Narnia is a parallel world not perfectly synced with ours.
* ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' is a prequel to ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'', the second film of which introduced the scorpion king and showed his final fate. They then made ''The Scorpion King 2'', which was a prequel to the prequel. There are also plans for ''The Scorpion King 3'' which will be a sequel to the prequel of the prequel.
* The "[[Road To|Road Pictures]]" of [[Bob Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby]]. Hope, Crosby and [[Dorothy Lamour]] play different characters with different names in each, and at least one is set in a wildly different time period, but they all have
* ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]'' explicitly takes place in the same universe as ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]''; the only on-screen references to this are a couple of off-hand mentions of the Grongi (Kuuga's enemies) and the G3 suit being built by the police based off of data taken on "Unidentified Lifeform #4" (the Tokyo Police's callname for Kuuga). There was also said to be a [[Great Ofscreen War]] where the Grongi were killed off by the Lords, Agito's enemies.
** This all gets referenced in ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', where the [[Alternate Universe]] Agito World they visit is also an alternate Kuuga World, with the [[Great Offscreen War]] actively happening and an alternate version of Decade!Kuuga's [[Cool Big Sis]] mentor showing up as the head scientist behind the G3 Project.
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