10 Awesome Video Game Crossovers We Were ROBBED Of
Inspired by the Halo/Doom Secret Level episode that was cancelled, think of other great video game crossovers that ALMOST happened (I remember there was something about Link and Samus in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, for one!)
Let's face it, we've all done it.
We've all sat there and thought about how awesome it would be to see two of our favourite game franchises crossover. The endless possibilities that would come about from mixing two things we love in order to create the ultimate game; and sometimes those dreams do become a reality.
Over the years we've seen the likes of Mario and Sonic duke it out at the Olympic games, Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton team up to solve mysterys and let's not forget the grandaddy of them all - Super Smash Bros.
And whilst these monumental cross-overs may delight fans - perhaps less-so in the case of Mario and Sonic at the Olympics - it seems that a lot of the most brilliant ideas for crossovers aren't even considered by the powers that be; or in the case of the games that we're talking about today, were actually going to happen before they were cruelly snatched away from us.
Many of the games talked about today did at get some ways into development but were either cancelled or scapped for one reason or another, leaving us all to sit here and wonder what could have been...
10. Samus Aran in Fortnite
Few games in the modern gaming landscape have been flying the flag for crossovers quite like Fortnite. At this stage they've had everyone from Sabrina Carpenter, to Michael Myers and even a bunch of Mortal Kombat characters getting stuck into the festivities.
So as you'd imagine, there's also been plenty of characters who haven't made it into the game.
One of the most notable is Samus Aran, gaming's first-lady and bounty-hunter extraordinaire, is one such character. Thanks to internal documents that became public during Epic Games' legal battle with Apple, we learned that she was slated to make an appearance in the game's fifth season as one of many Hunters that were introduced, which would put her alongside several other iconic characters like God of War's Kratos, Halo's Master Chief and Street Fighter royalty Ryu and Chun-Li.
Ultimately the plans to feature Samus were scrapped due to Nintendo insisting that she would only be available for the Switch version of Fortnite, which would have greatly limited the amount of people that were able to purchase the character. Epic Games rejected this offer as characters like Kratos and Master Chief, who are owned by Sony and Microsoft respectfully, weren't locked behind exclusivity deals, so they felt that Samus shouldn't be either.