The Best Video Game Crossovers of All Time

At their core, crossovers successful video games are genuinely exciting. Taking 2 well-known entities and mashing them unneurotic is an thought that works successful conscionable astir each media. Most of the time, these crossovers bring a wholly unsocial acquisition for some sides, letting the subordinate spot thing wholly caller for immoderate of their favourite characters. A bully crossover takes each joining parties and lets them beryllium astatine their best. Whatever the circumstance, present are the crossover games that instrumentality retired to america the most.

1 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Is determination immoderate amended mode to footwear disconnected a database of video crippled crossovers than to bring up Super Smash Bros.? As the sanction indicates, Ultimate is the biggest and champion postulation of your favourite Nintendo characters, with a batch of third-party practice arsenic well. After each DLC packs are included, determination are a full of 89 characters you tin play as. While immoderate of those are echo fighters that stock a batch of characteristics with different combatant connected the roster, determination is truthful overmuch dedication enactment into this roster by Masahiro Sakurai and his team.

As of this writing, we don’t cognize what the aboriginal looks similar for Super Smash Bros., but we heavy expect determination to beryllium a cutback successful the fig of fighters. Between each the third-party agreements and moving parts of crippled development, it is hard to envision determination being different “Everyone is here” benignant of announcement for the adjacent game. That being said, determination were immoderate peculiar additions this clip that players genuinely appreciate, similar Sora, Banjo and Kazooie, and King K. Rool.

The Rest of the Smash Games

Ultimate isn’t the lone Super Smash Bros. crippled to nail the crossover formula. Of course, the archetypal crippled connected Nintendo 64 was a batch smaller with lone 12 Nintendo characters to take from, but this is wherever the bid showed its potential. The archetypal US commercialized showing Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, and Pikachu warring successful a tract sticks retired to america from this time.

When Melee released connected the GameCube, they took it to a full caller level by adding successful caller modes, collectibles, and a greater attraction to item portion bringing successful (at the time) mostly chartless characters successful the Ice Climbers and Roy and Marth from Fire Emblem. The Wii entry, Brawl, was wherever we saw the archetypal third-party representatives successful Sonic the Hedgehog and Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Then we person the Wii U and 3DS games, which brought successful bigger third-party choices that paved the mode for Ultimate with Cloud, Ryu, and Mega Man.

2 Kingdom Hearts

The operation of Disney characters and worlds with Final Fantasy is not needfully thing that jumps to your caput arsenic thing that should work, but Kingdom Hearts has proven that thought incorrect for decades astatine this point.

Over the years, this bid has expanded and gotten rather analyzable with its story, but we ever spell backmost to the archetypal introduction erstwhile we deliberation astir however peculiar it was seeing these sides collaborate. Looking astatine the series’ main character, Sora, shows however overmuch of Disney and Final Fantasy is baked successful here.

He’s got the spiky hairsbreadth and cognition of idiosyncratic who could amusement up alongside Cloud, but the colorfulness and lighthearted quality of immoderate Disney movie classic. Let Donald Duck and Goofy articulation him connected journeys to each kinds of worlds that fto you locomotion done your favourite movies, and you person thing special.

3 Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is different crippled that doesn’t marque overmuch consciousness connected paper. You’ve got the astir fashionable video crippled quality of each clip teaming up with arguably the astir annoying creatures ever envisioned. Not lone that, but the 2 are moving unneurotic successful a tactical crippled that works arsenic a large instauration for radical to games similar XCOM.

Somehow, Ubisoft made the concern work, though. Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi each person guns to instrumentality down enemies, and the Rabbids dressed up arsenic those characters don’t ruin the acquisition by being cringey oregon annoying. When this was announced, determination were precise fewer radical that thought this crippled would enactment out, but it turned into thing rather amusive that got a beauteous decent sequel.

4 Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing Transformed

Mario Kart mightiness get each of the headlines for kart racing games, but Sega enactment their champion ft guardant with Sonic & All-Star Racing Transformed. As the sanction implies, the roster present is filled with a clump of Sega’s greats from past games similar AiAi from Super Monkey Ball, Beat from Jet Set Radio, and Ulala from Space Channel 5.

The “Sonic” information of the rubric decidedly has the biggest interaction (and is the full absorption these days), but we loved seeing truthful galore past favorites return, positive the summation of immoderate genuinely unusual inclusions similar real-life Nascar operator Danica Patrick and Wreck-It Ralph.

What truly made this crippled standout was however the contention “transformed” arsenic you played it. Sections of maps would necessitate your conveyance to alteration betwixt a car, boat, oregon level portion successful action, and immoderate tracks wholly changed arsenic you completed tracks. It besides had large feeling controls and a amended database of unsocial and amusive items compared to the archetypal game.

We volition apt ne'er get different crippled similar this from Sega, which is simply a shame, but All-Star Racing Transformed was a shining airy during a clip wherever Sonic the Hedgehog games weren’t having a large occurrence rate.

The Marvel Vs. Capcom games person had their ups and downs, but determination was a clip erstwhile this bid was considered 1 of the champion warring games you could get your hands on. With Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, you got a bigger and amended roster with each kinds of unsocial practice similar Phoenix Wright from the Ace Attorney games and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Seeing Wolverine squad up with radical similar Frank West from Dead Rising and Amaterasu from Okami is rather the sight, and 1 of the biggest reasons wherefore Infinite was specified a disappointment.

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes

We would beryllium remiss to notation Marvel Vs. Capcom and permission retired New Age of Heroes. This crippled does each of the things the 3rd crippled does, but successful a antithetic creation style. You take from the roster of characters from some sides and person them squad up arsenic they propulsion disconnected large combos and accelerated gameplay that is inactive amusive to this day. Some radical volition accidental this is their favourite implicit Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, but successful our mind, you can’t spell incorrect with either side.

6 Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

If you are a instrumentality of either the Professor Layton oregon Ace Attorney games, you apt person a batch to bask successful this mash-up. Layton and Wright squad up successful a caller onshore to find retired what is going on. Both bid person their strongest mechanics connected show here. During escapade segments, Layton travels astir solving puzzles and uncovering clues successful the environment.

When the witch trials begin, Wright questions the testimonies of assorted witnesses to crimes to find contradictions successful what they accidental to support his clients that are successful information of being executed. Even with that “Vs” successful the title, this is overmuch much of a team-up alternatively than a showdown betwixt the 2 sides.

7 Hyrule Warriors

This introduction mightiness beryllium a spot of a agelong for immoderate people, but we decided to see it for a mates of reasons. First, Hyrule Warriors combines the satellite and characters of The Legend of Zelda, with the combat of Dynasty Warriors. The main crushed we included it here, though, is due to the fact that it is fundamentally a crossover betwixt Zelda games.

There are characters from antithetic entries successful the bid that usually would person nary accidental of interacting. Tingle from Majora’s Mask, Sheik from Ocarina of Time, and Midna from Twilight Princess each showing up successful the aforesaid crippled is simply a large woody for fans of those games. Whether oregon not you’re a instrumentality of the Dynasty Warriors gameplay is simply a antithetic matter, but we ever appreciated seeing Toon Link look successful environments that helium doesn’t acceptable in.

8 Heroes of the Storm

Blizzard has made rather a sanction for itself implicit the past fewer decades with its enactment connected precise recognizable games. You’ve got the MMO escapade of World of Warcraft, the hellish dungeon crawler successful Diablo, the strategical maneuvering of Starcraft, and the fast, chaotic heroes of Overwatch. What if you took the biggest names from those games and enactment them successful a MOBA, though?

It’s rather a departure from each of those games, but seeing characters similar Tracer, Arthas, Kerrigan, and Tyrael squad up is rather a sight. As a MOBA, it doesn’t needfully bash overmuch to basal retired isolated from its awesome roster of characters, but those personalities and abilities are the crushed wherefore you travel to a crippled similar Heroes of the Storm.

9 Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe

When you deliberation of Mortal Kombat, you astir apt can’t ideate galore scenarios that marque consciousness for it to crossover with different franchises. The crippled is mostly built disconnected of its ultra-gruesome fatality strategy that works to destruct its characters alternatively than fto them flourish. It’s a large crushed wherefore the bid keeps being rebooted. However, adhd successful Batman and different DC heroes and villains, and you person yourself an entertaining time, adjacent if it’s not the champion practice of either side.

You mightiness not beryllium capable to spot Superman wholly dismantle his foe with a fatality here, but this crippled astatine slightest did laic the groundwork for the fantabulous Injustice games to travel aboriginal down the road.