MARCUSDJACKSON on 11 December 2012
| Aielyn said: Here's how to tell. Could you take the newer game, switch out the sprites or character designs, make a few minor gameplay tweaks (and level redesigns, if applicable), and have a game practically identical to the old game? Then it's a clone. Take Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale - if you switched out the Sony characters for Nintendo characters and switched the damage meter to percentage rather than HP, you'd think you were playing Smash Bros. That makes it a clone. Note that implementation issues aren't factored in. A clone can be far better or far worse than the original in terms of gaming experience. "Clone" isn't necessarily a negative term, although many will use it negatively. As an example, many would probably call the original Metroid a Kid Icarus clone. |
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but the worse clones are the ones that are clones of themselves. like COD. killzone3 wasn't killzone. killzone3 lost its way, and i hope it find its way back to prime.
mod nation racers is no clone, but LBP karting is a clone of MNR but that shouldn't be a suprise, because in addition to media molecule, united front games co dev'd LBP karting, in addition to developing MNR.
