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Originally Posted by RedAlert Rescue

I think a RTS game with some 4-EX elements would work well for Gi Joe - something not a million miles away from Halo Wars would be good as it could add different planes or vehicles to a research tree and use Dark Energon / Energon as the resource. It wouldn't be difficult to do.

Another idea might be to mash up a cart racer with Micro Machines and make a combat racer of some sort, maybe even one where they are still actually toys. Such a concept would gel very well with a Miniature toy vehicle line too.

Personally I got very strong Gi Joe vibes from things like Perfect Dark, or Far Cry 6 so I think you just swap out Yara for Cobra Island and insert decades worth of Cobra sub-types. Use Named Characters as bosses.

Far Cry especially would work as it has a modest amount of vehicles.
You could even have a wrecked landing craft with some Gi Joe vehicles in it that enable you to use those as well as stolen cobra characters.

They could use Snake Eyes as the protagonist and return to the silent protagonist trope too or have Scarlet as the player alternative.

In certain set mission you could play as others too outside the main game (like as part of the expeditions) Almost everything in Far Cry dove tails perfectly with GI Joe I'd say.

Remember that tower defense game in the 2010's called Toy Soldiers where you could control individual toy units. They had GI Joe and Cobra as playable factions and man it was sooooo much fun. It had all of the classic ARAH playsets and vehicles and the animations were so good. You could really tell the devs loved GI Joe.