Coming up with a good name for a TV show is hard.

So far, so cute.

No spoilsports complaining about the use of pre-rendered animation rather than in-game footage).

A composite image of five characters from Amazon Prime’s Secret Level video anthology. The images have a cool, blueish hue to them.

So will it be art or ads?

Well-crafted vignettes adding a new dimension to beloved gaming worlds or Unskippable Cutscenes: The Series?

Lets dig into them.

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Titus and three fellow Ultramarines are dispatched to a bleak planet for what is essentially a suicide mission.

(“Projected Mortality: Absolute” is the sardonic official assessment.)

This involves running a gauntlet of volatile Mad Max rejects and nightmarish cave creatures.

Four space marines walk toward an imposing door in the Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 episode of Secret Level.

Rarely has a slow walk away from a big explosion been so well-earned.

Animated by Miller’s own veteran effects houseBlur Studio, it is a sure-footed start.

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“Double kill!”

A close up of a robot from the Unreal Tournament episode of Secret Level.

Concord’scatastrophic late-summer launchsaw it yanked from sale after 11 days.

Here you get a jailbreak story staged like a heist flick, bouncing along with fizzy energy.

Magical realism, indeed.

Characters from Concord gather in a space ship in the Concord episode of Secret Level.

Is it all part of a sacrifice ritual?

There is also a lot of business with a massive regal dragon.

These first four episodes set a solid baseline of craft and visual richness.

A band of adventures face a large, multi-headed dragon in the Dungeons and Dragons episode of Secret Level.

Official press images really don’t do the material justice in motion, these shorts all look casually incredible.

It feels like Secret Level’s secret handshake to gamers:we know this world.

Now let’s explore it.