I went ahead and changed spinoffs to versions before looking at the discussion page simply because upon reading the article spinoff just didn t seem appropriate See Spin off media In video games Spinoff typically refers to something made later that takes an element of the original product and expands upon it by adding new original content to it Angel is a spinoff of Buffy retaining the characters Angel Cordelia and Wesley and the general setting of the Buffyverse and adding several new characters a new setting L A and a largely unrelated plot The Sims could be considered a spinoff of Simcity but The Sims 2 console game is not a spinoff of The Sims 2 talk Contribs