Apex Legends Adds Grumpy, Team-Wiping Godzilla to Its Growing Lineup of Unwanted Crossovers

Not content to sit idle while EA works to pay down its billions in debt, battle royale shooter Apex Legends is set to run yet another of its IP-packed crossover events. Starting November 10th, this one stars Godzilla, of Godzilla Minus Zero, Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla (1954), Godzilla 2000: Millennium, Godzilla (1998), Son of Godzilla, and Godzilla (2014). Some may be missing.

Besides a profitable range of weapon and character skins, most of which appear to have hot-glued an entire 70-year film franchise’s worth of dorsal fins all over themselves, the King of the Monsters himself will show up on the game’s Storm Point map. He gets at least more than a background cameo: he’ll occasionally blast an area with Legend-melting atomic breath, though brave souls who risk the danger zone can score a custom Devotion LMG with a unique heat ray attack of its own.

Worth noting as well that the character skins are each based on a particular ‘zilla movie, though as our freelance news writer and associate Large Lizard Cinema expert Ashley isn’t working today, I’m not sure which of these are from hits and which are the duds. Walking wallhack motherfucker Bloodhound gets the newest fashion, their skin being inspired by Minus Zero, while my personal favourite Scottish scientist Horizon gets duds based on Big G in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. Octane’s skin is taken from… something called a Jet Jaguar? Google suggests this may in fact be elite Godzilla knowledge, something I clearly lack.

Regardless, and with the understanding that a lot of effort goes into these crossovers, I still kinda wish they didn’t exist? Even putting aside basic game-playing problems with how, for example, wacky skins interfere with Legend silhouettes – you couldn’t pay me to initiate a fight against a full team of near-identical Gundampeople – it’s just icky to have an otherwise sharp, smart, at times fiercely competitive battle royale turned into an animated billboard for a few days.

Apex Legends already has its own kaiju: the sleepy, pacifist Leviathans that innocently wandered into the King’s Canyon map for a few of the earlier seasons. In the author’s view, these are far better Friend Material than Godzilla, since they would only kill you — and usually it was your own fault, by wandering under their briefly raised megahooves.