Konami/Kojima could have been sued by John Carpenter/Canal+ over 'MGS being a ripoff'

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PieToast said:
Good thing they didn't because the Metal Gear series -or at least the first one- was supposed to pay homage to a lot of action movies from that era, and Escape From New York was one of the obvious inspiration that it wore on it's sleeve. I'd even go as far to say that it was intended to deconstuct them but that's a subject for another day.

Interesting piece of trivia: Solid Snake's alias in MGS2 was Iroquois Pliskin, which was also the name of the main character in Escape From New York

Yeah, and can't forget "Snake" Plissken part:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Plissken#Background

But beyond paying homage, MGS is a complete beast of it's own.

Maybe they'd end up losing a legal process though, with how things work sometimes.