I really don't understand the logic that it couldn't have existed if it copied Smash completely, You have competing brands like CoD/BF, Forza/Gran Turismo, Fifa/PES, Burnout/NFS all of which have been successful and dug out their own share of fans while offering a very similar package to what their rival may already have had on the market. If the first Forza game on the original Xbox had looked at GT3 and thought.... we have to be different to that, we have to do something that isn't a real driving simulator then it probably would have ended up another Cel Damaged or junk title in comparison to the fantastic rival to GT that series is now, it's possible to build and expand on a great title rather than cower away from rivaling it to a point where your game is flawed at it's core because you are staying away from a core mechanic of a competing functional game.
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