Crossovers Game 2013

We often hear complaints that the video game industry lacks originality. And to a degree that’s true… year after year we see games that are very similar coming out. Sometimes we even see franchises that seem to perpetually release titles that are almost identical to the previous iterations. So, with that in mind, we have compiled a list of game cross overs that we believe may inject some much needed freshness into the video game arena. And they are…

1. Call Of Mario

Tired of perpetually having to rescue Princess Peach, Mario locks her in a high security installation (for her own good) and straps on some body armour. He loads up with a number of high-impact weapons and, with his trusty sidekick Luigi (opportunity for co-op here) launches a full assault on Bowser’s castle, to stop the weird turtle-pig-dog-monster once and for all. Special pick-ups allow him to grow larger, which increases his damage and weapon carrying capacity. He finds special suits along the way that allow for some him tech aerial sniping. We’re talking first person platforming action shooter at its finest here.



2. God Of Tetris

Kratos realises that the only way to truly defeat the gods is to lock them away in a massive prison. So, armed with a special set of bricks designed by a Russian, he starts building walls. But the bricks soon run out, and he has to empower a magic deive that starts the bricks raining down from the sky. Between beating up all manner of bad guys, Kratos has to carefully select where the bricks will fall to ensure that the walls of the prison are solid. And if the walls ever reach the heavens, the magical brick dropping spell will simply stop working. Third person action puzzling, anyone?



3. Mortal Kart

Tired of always beating up on each other, the members of the Mortal Kombat cast decide to take a break and head down to the local go-kart track. But anger is something that is not easily abated by a few laps and hot-dogs; soon the kombatants are letting their competitive, aggressive natures get the better of them. With weapons scattered around the track by the evil Shang Tsung, the races soon find themselves armed to the teeth and doing battle while trying to win the race. Winners will be allowed to perform special kart-based fatalities on the losers, including driving a kart full speed up someone’s windward passage.
Kart fighting will allow for tons of party fun.



4. Epic Sam

The toons of wasteland are under threat again, and they realise that relying on a mouse with a paint-brush simply isn’t getting the job done. Instead they enlist the help of Sam Fisher and his newly formed 4th Echelon. Using high technology, stealth and superior fighting skills, Sam takes on all the bad toons, ridding Wasteland of the menace that threatens it and doing brutal combat with characters from throughout the history of Disney Studios. A stealth platformer that lets you kill toons… we like it.



5. Uncharted Rider

Do we really need two intrepid treasure hunters? Not really. So, in this game, Lara Croft and Nathan Drake get together, retire and spend their money on living a lavish, opulent life. In the process, they have a kid… named after her mother, Lara Drake soon follows in her parents footsteps, becoming the world’s greatest treasure hunter as she travels to all the obscure places her parents somehow missed in the past. OK, not really a cross over. But it would simplify things.




6. Uncharted Rider

Two teams of ten players each take to the soccer pitch in a game of combat golf. The aim is to get the gold ball into a hole on the opponent’s end of the field. The teams are kitted out in knickerbockers and soccer jerseys, and each player has a specific club to use. For example, drivers are at the back of the pitch, while putters are the ones who make the assault on the goal. The beauty of the game is that it isn’t slow paced – the players don’t take turns like in golf, but must use a football style assault, complete with passes, lobs, tackles and shots at the goal. The goalie is the annoying caddy from the Tiger Woods games, who has to stop the goldf balls blasted at the goal with his body.
It might not be a great video game, but there is a possibility for a new extreme sport here.



7. Just Combat

A new take on party games, Just Kombat is a simple, motion controlled game in which two players need to mimic the movements of their on-screen counterparts. The screen characters, who are Mortal Kombatants, perform various strikes and blocks, alternating between them. If the moves are performed correctly, they move on to the next set. If not, someone has to get up off the floor and put a bag of cold peas on the bits that hurt. The winner is the one with the least bruises at the end of a session. Party fighter… yeah, we can think of a few people we’d love to play this with!



8. The Sims: Batman

It could be any superhero, really, but Batman has the whole Batcave thing going, which works well for a game in which you need to build and decorate your own accommodations. The player will need to maintain a social life and do work while keeping the true identity of the Dark Knight a secret, and will need to discover which other Sims in their neighbourhood are also leading double lives.
A new activity bench will also allow the Sim to create new gadgets for use in his crime fighting, including the Simarang and Simbatmobile. Open world action life simulator… it might just get too complex to handle.



9. Diablo City

There’s a lot of travelling to cities in Diablo 3, but who cleans up the mess when the adventurers have left? Well, that’s where this game comes is. In Diablo City, the player will need to establish a city, build it up with resources, building and population, and watch while a bunch of monsters come and wreck it. Then the adventurers will show up and wreck it even more. When they have left, the player will get to pick up the pieces and start again. It may sound like hard work, but we do that in SimCity anyway. Action adventure management. Certain things are too god to exist.



10. World of Dance Craft

Dawing inspiration from Just Dance, World of Dance Craft will introduce the player to a massive fantasy MMO setting where only those with the coolest moves survive. Players will have to start small, grinding for gold by doing The Hustle on street corners for donations. Later on, they will use advanced choreography to defeat powerful monsters who want to see the beat end. Don’t look at us like that… they put pandas into World of WarCraft, after all.
MMO party dancing… a way to embarrass yourself in front of the whole world.