Ka-Zar and Zabu
When you think about your favorite fictional location in the Marvel universe, your mind probably leaps to Asgard, Wakanda, or even Latveria. However, out of all its marvelous locales, none captures the imagination quite like the Savage Land. What sets this uncreatively named place above the rest? Three words: Ka-Zar and Zabu.
Ka-Zar is essentially Marvel’s hero answer to Tarzan. However, instead being of a young man who was raised by apes, Ka-Zar is young man who was raised by Zabu, a sabertooth tiger with near-human intellect. Do I have your attention yet?
The Savage Land is a tropical game preserve hidden in the desolate reaches of Antarctica. It was created in pre-historic times by aliens and stocked with an array of different creatures throughout Earth’s history. You can’t venture five feet into the Savage Land without encountering dinosaurs, mastodons, Neanderthals, and beastmen races mutated by Atlanteans.
The Savage Land is ripe for exploration since it is a melting pot of Earth’s prehistory in its entirety and has fantastical elements that invoke shades of Tarzan and Conan the Barbarian. Ka-Zar and Zabu are the perfect stars for such a game. Who better to give gamers a tour of the land than those who know it best?
Perhaps this hypothetical game could be an open world experience similar to Far Cry Primal, complete with Zabu as a permanent companion. The game could feature nothing but Savage Land faces or include cameos from characters tied to the reserve, such as Magneto, the X-Men, and Devil Dinosaur. Either strategy could work.
Then again, I don’t think anyone would complain if such a game instead starred Devil Dinosaur and featured Ka-Zar and Zabu as guest cameos.
