Multiple gaming franchises have been trying to get off the ground, but not every popular game can make the transition to movies or television easily. Luckily for Amazon Prime Video, they’ve found an interesting compromise.
Check out the first teaser for Secret Level which promises to bring Love, Death, and Robots’ animated anthology format and cross it over with popular IP like God of War, Mega Man, and Warhammer 40,0000:
Here’s the official description:
SECRET LEVEL is a new adult-animated anthology series featuring original stories set within the worlds of some of the most beloved video games. From the creative minds behind LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS, each of the 15 episodes is a celebration of games and gamers. Games that inspired the 15 epic stories include Armored Core, Concord, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, PAC-MAN, various PlayStation Studios games, Sifu, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds, Unreal Tournament and Warhammer 40,000.
With LDR already looking like an avenue to publish cinematics for cancelled games, Secret Level does sound like the perfect idea for adapting certain gaming IP. Not everyone can get the greenlight like Fallout or The Last of Us did, but maybe it would be easier to get approval for a 15-minute animated short.
Though there is the promise of shorts that would cover more popular IP like Mega Man and ‘various PlayStation Studios games’, I’m more excited to get shorts based on more obscure IP like the Armored Core franchise and Sifu.
With the success of Love, Death, and Robots, it would be great to see just what titles can make it to Secret Level in the future.
Watch out for Secret Level when it premieres on Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 10.
