With the upcoming release of Mortal Kombat Vs. DC by Midway this fall, I couldn't help but reminisce on all of the various video game incarnations that blended two (or more) intellectual properties over the years. My particular favorite being the most excellent Japan-only Sega Saturn port of X-men VS. Street Fighter. I can't count the collegiate hours spent defending my crown with Ken, dragon punching and hurricane kicking any challenger entering my dorm room. While this highlights the idea of blending multiple properties, other have been less fortunate, such as the abysmal use of Spawn in Soul Calibur II for the Xbox. This has led me to think about what types of crossovers I would like to see in the future, even beyond the typical implementation in fighting games, which seems to suit the crossover well since fighting games rarely contribute to a particular character's canon. So here is a list of my top three most wanted crossover games:
1. A Shadow of t
he Colossus style adventure game set in the mind of a serial killer featuring several of my favorite characters with psychological powers including the X-men Psylocke and Jean Grey, Raz from Psychonauts, and Nick from Psi-Ops. The game would have to feature four player co-op in a gritty 3rd person action-adventure with enemies that actually are the environments (generated by the killer's mind for whom the team is trying to access). Each level would be one giant environment, which would effectively be a puzzle that the characters would have to solve to pass.2. A tennis/fighting game featuring contestants from the X-men and Star Wars universes pitting light sabers and force powers vs. adamantium claws and optic blasts in epic tennis matches where anything goes...imagine the possibilities!
3. Last but not lea
st, a first person shooter where Master Chief, Jack from BioShock, Gordon Freeman, and Duke Nukem would team up and travel through time through various first person shooter level designs. I am thinking something like Brute Force, only good, where the characters team up taking on baddies from various FPS games ranging from the original Doom to current titles like Resistance. The earliest FPS levels would look like they did originally with low res graphics and low-fi sounds, while the character models would remain high-res. As the player progresses the levels would be drawn from later games looking more and more like modern games.Well those are my most wanted, what do you think? What do you want to see?
