Gamepro plaigarizes IGN's review

[noname2200]

twesterm said:

noname2200 said:

twesterm said:
Wait, the line in question is the bolded line?

People are calling that plagiarism?

There's only so many ways you can get the point across that in skirmish you can play against up to seven bots and two players can go at it split screen or you can play eight player via WiFi connection.

Jesus people, that isn't plagiarism, it's the internet being stupid.

Those two direct lines, appearing word for word right next to each other in both reviews, are highly suspect. Add in the last line also being verbatim (there's no way the "like a raincoat that makes you temporarily water resistant and a towel to dry yourself off" line is also accidentally a word-for-word copy), and plausibile deniability is gone.

You mean the lines where he's talking about gameplay mechanics?  I haven't played the game, but I'm guessing there's a raincoat that makes you temporarily water resistant and a towel to dry you off.

Again, there are so many ways to tell you that information.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of manual it would say the same exact thing.

No manual (WiiWare game), and it's not from Hudson's PR. A google search returns only these two sites as results.

One or two lines, okay, coincidence, even if they are carbon copies. Three? Nuh-uh, especially when all three of those lines can be written in any number of ways. What few other reviews I've read on the game avoid using these comparisons; they tend to equate them to other gaming objects (raincoat=overshield, towel=health pack, etc.).

Basically, I agree with the bolded sentence in your response, which is why I'm curious to hear how it came to be that the second review just happened to directly copy three lines out of thirty-three (including the intro. and conclusion). Yes, one line in eleven was essentially shared between the two reviews.

But if you want to chalk it all up to coincidence, knock yourself out.