We were about to get a Doom and Halo crossover, but apparently Xbox said “nah.”

Mr. President W Deadly death I almost came face-to-face with a crossover I didn’t even know I wanted yet. The icons of the embattled first-person shooter, the former of Halo fame and the latter of Doom, were part of a pitch for the Amazon Prime anthology Secret Level, but the powers that be at parent company Microsoft nixed the idea. Boo!

Among the most famous personalities is not only FPS gamesBut the method as a whole, death Slayer and Master Chief represent very special eras for the industry. Doom changed everything in the 1990s, formalizing ideas about shooters and Multiplayer games Which remains core, while Halo was at the forefront of the 2000s’ bliss, bringing millions of players to Xbox Live.

They’re huge and popular, and now that they’re under the same corporate roof, some form of meeting seems inevitable. And we were almost done, where Tim Miller and Dave Wilson, the creator and director of Secret Level respectively, wanted to do an episode that included both of them, but they were completely rejected.

“(Hugo Martin), the creative director at id (software), is a good friend of ours, and so are the people at Microsoft, so we made a big appeal because one of the things Tim and I would like to do is do something that doesn’t currently exist in games, Like a crossover.” open To the collider.

“We wanted to make a Master Chief/Doom Slayer crossover episode, and I spent the entire weekend crafting this passionate message from my childhood.” Unfortunately, according to Miller, the response was “no,” so the idea never got any further.

It’s a shame, because it’s something that makes a tremendous amount of sense on paper. There’s already a lot of crossover between fan bases. Doom is still at its highest levels since 2016’s semi-reboot and 2020’s Eternal, and the Halo TV series on Paramount Plus hasn’t been very good, so people are clamoring for a more faithful adaptation, not to mention Microsoft now owns id software after acquiring Bethesda, so they In the same stable.

Unfortunately, adapting such properties is often difficult for a number of reasons. Maybe someday it will happen. Secret Level is available on Amazon Prime now, and has episodes on Unreal Tournament and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, if you still want your FPS quality fix.

Read our guide on Death: The Dark Ages To find out what’s coming next there, while we have lists of Best space games And the best Upcoming PC games For other ways to jump to a galaxy far, far away.

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