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Hollywood has gotten the message: Mashing up iconic characters and using the results as Studio tent-poles is a real good idea.
Freddy Vs. Jason, Batman Vs. Superman, Aliens vs Predator, The Avengers, any project that connects beloved properties together is bound to get people talking and move units, so why has the video game world been so reticent?
The game world should take a major cue from the runaway success of the Marvel Vs. Capcom series and start working together, and to that end we’ve come up with a few ideas of franchises we’d love to see mix it up…
10. Titanfall/Minecraft
Titanfall promises to the the most immersive Mech Game in the history of the medium, and we want the ability to tweak those mean machines every which way our imaginations can envision. If a cadre of grade seven students can put together a Taj Mahal replica over their lunch break, imagine what they can do with a Titan?
9. Professor Layton/Resident Evil
When Professor Layon receives a distressed letter from his old school mate, who'se taken up a research residency for Umbrella Corp. He and Luke must travel to Raccoon City, where an army of Tyrant Virus infected super-soldiers are waiting in ambush. Layton must use logic, his rapier wit, and a chaingun to make it out alive.
8. The Warriors/Infamous
It's a dystopian, violent New York City, run by drugs, crooked cops, and funkiest gangs to ever walk the face of the earth. Into this claustrophobic, dark world a super-powered messiah is delivered, a young gun who can climb above their concrete jungle and lead his small, no-name gang to the top of the heap, rise a city off of its knees, and bop through every neighborhood in the Big Apple. Can you dig it sucka?
7. Bioshock/Silent Hill
This is an absolute no-brainer. A escaped slave is flung back into a "dystopian" antebellum South haunted not only by a jaded ideology, but by spirits of unknowable torment, frozen deep underground. He desperately searches for his young son, a child with untold powers, born into bondage and the key to all Underhampton's evil secrets. The adventure climaxes when Pyramidhead does battle with a Big Daddy.
6. Halo/Red Dead Revolver
Cowboys vs. Aliens was an unqualified steaming heap of Louie Anderson, I'll be the first to admit it, but that doesn't mean we should abandon the idea altogether.
Imagine Master Chief sent back through time to secure some precious Forerunner artifact from the Covenant's grasp. Left weak from the experience, he falls under the protection of a homesteader with a shady past by the name of Marsten... With the federal government, the Covenant, and mutated version of Flood hot on their trail, the two heroes work together to save the Earth, and their souls.
5. Mortal Kombat/DOA Beach Volleyball
All is well on the island paradise, until an intense bikini contest is interrupted by a giant rift in the sky that fuses Outworld with Earthrealm. Lord Raiden quickly descends on the frightened beach-ready girls and tells Ayane and Kasumi that Earthrealm will be forfeit to Shao Kahn unless they can defeat Shiva and Mileena in an impromptu best of three match. You win: Babality.
4. Portal/Metroid
Samus Aryan has a lot of things going for her, but a sense of humour ain't one. Imagine Motherbrain and Wheatley locked in a power struggle all while Samus and Chell move together through elaborate mazes, one blasts pirates while the other solves puzzles. Girl power at its very best!
3. Myst/Duke Nukem
Oh, what's that Myst? I didn't pull the red lever twice before I jumped into the rollercoaster and now the last 20 hours of my life meant nothing? Not any more. The Duke would take that confusing, mind screwing world and blow a Pamela-Anderson-circa-1995-shaped-hole right clean through it. Now who's laughing?
2. Super Smash Bros/Team Fortress
Epileptics need not apply! If the two most frantic multiplayers in the gaming universe could team up on one screen, the results might very well destroy the planet. Smash Brothers has proved that mashing together characters from different genres can works great, and the mere thought of having Kirby inhaling his enemies backed up by a medic sends shivers down my spine.
1. Uncharted/Metal Gear
What about saving the world from nuclear winter AND ancient sorcery? Putting together the fresh-faced, wise-cracking Nathan Drake with the embittered, world weary Snake would be a buddy movie/game for the ages. The explosive Thrill-a-minute Uncharted vibe interspersed with the patient, ruthless Metal Gear mentality would mean the very best of both worlds.