Love, Death & Robots Team Adapts Warhammer, Dungeons & Dragons, Pac-Man & More

Prime Video has released the first trailer for Secret Level, a new anthology series from the creators of Love, Death & Robots adapting various video games into their own episodes. Love, Death & Robots‘ best episodes have been about a variety of interesting topics, many touching upon fantastical ideas and wild interpretations of the world. In the meantime, Hollywood has been producing a plethora of new video game adaptations, with the medium becoming a new way to pull ideas onto screens both big and small.

Now, Prime Video has released a trailer for Secret Level, an anthology series from the creators of Love, Death & Robots featuring episodic adaptations of a variety of video games.

The trailer reveals plenty of familiar video game worlds, including those of Warhammer 40,000, Dungeons & Dragons, Pac-Man, and Armored Core. The anthology series’ first impression includes exciting adventures in various gaming universes, each of them reflecting a new experience depending on the genre of its source material. The trailer ends by revealing a release date of December 10.

How Secret Level Will Bring Video Game Worlds To The Small Screen

Alongside the trailer, Prime Video also confirmed the list of 15 video game universes that would be inspiring different episodes of the show. In addition to the games already mentioned, the other universes set to be explored are Concord, Crossfire, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, Sifu, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds, Unreal Tournament, and various PlayStation titles. This intersection between different gaming worlds hints at the variety Secret Level will bring, potentially rivaling the best anthology series of all time.

The success of recent video game adaptations like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Last of Us TV show indicate a new shift in Hollywood to pull stories from the gaming world. Secret Level is a reflection of this evolution, promising plenty of high-quality stories set in familiar worlds that gamers already know and general audiences can be introduced to. Because of how popular Love, Death & Robots managed to become, chances are high this too ends up being a successful anthology under the creators’ belts.

While there are still plenty of potential video game movie adaptations yet to be released, Secret Level is the perfect evolution of the genre’s transition into a new medium. By providing shorter stories set within different video game worlds, the show can expand on the source material while also building its own impressive repertoire because of how its different tales get told. With plenty of adventures prepared for the future, it seems the Prime Video series will prove an interesting, high-octane experience for seasoned gamers and general audiences alike.

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