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4k1x3r on 09 February 2011
--OkeyDokey-- said:

I was with you until God of War. Sure it borrowed some things from previous games, just like every third person shooter after Gears jacked its cover system and every FPS stole Halo's regeneting health. That doesn't make it a "blatant copycat". If God of War wasn't something totally new and amazing it wouldn't have risen above its inspirations to become the unchallenged leader of its genre.

Switch it with Forza Motorsport. Microsoft made that game with a copy of GT3 and a piece of tracing paper.

We can extrapolate that real far, like Sonic looking for rings, yea bouh they copied it and made it more diverse, bla bla bla. I agree with you, don't touch GOW OP... :p

As for GearsOfWar cover system no, GEOW stole it from another game before as far as I remember, (syphon filter but I don't wanna say something wrong), GEOW just made it popular, because basically, it was more successful than the other one it ripped off.



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amp316 on 10 February 2011

Diddy Kong Racing comes to mind. 



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BMaker11 on 10 February 2011

Gran Turismo copied Madden because Madden was a simulator first =/



Kasz216 on 10 February 2011
BMaker11 said:

Gran Turismo copied Madden because Madden was a simulator first =/


The first racing Simulator was Pole Position.



LordTheNightKnight on 11 February 2011
Kasz216 said:
BMaker11 said:

Gran Turismo copied Madden because Madden was a simulator first =/


The first racing Simulator was Pole Position.


Wouldn't Night Racer have been the first? And genre is not copying of course.



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theRepublic on 20 February 2011
LordTheNightKnight said:

Simpsons Hit & Run (Grand Theft Auto).

Seems a lot more like Crazy Taxi to me.



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Munkeh111 on 20 February 2011
NiKKoM said:

Too many to sum up but the entire gameloft catalogue...


Just what I was thinking, the only games that aren't really copies are their games based of Ubi franchises



goforgold on 20 February 2011

1.God Of War and Devil May Cry actually play very different from a gameplay perspective. DMC is a combo game, GOW is not, Bayonetta would have been a better choice.

2.Gears of War did steal its cover system from a little game called Killswitch

and no they didn't add anything to it.

3. about move and kinect copying wii.....

that is all.......

 

hint *wispers* "this came out WAAAY before the wii"



goforgold on 20 February 2011
4k1x3r said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:

I was with you until God of War. Sure it borrowed some things from previous games, just like every third person shooter after Gears jacked its cover system and every FPS stole Halo's regeneting health. That doesn't make it a "blatant copycat". If God of War wasn't something totally new and amazing it wouldn't have risen above its inspirations to become the unchallenged leader of its genre.

Switch it with Forza Motorsport. Microsoft made that game with a copy of GT3 and a piece of tracing paper.

We can extrapolate that real far, like Sonic looking for rings, yea bouh they copied it and made it more diverse, bla bla bla. I agree with you, don't touch GOW OP... :p

As for GearsOfWar cover system no, GEOW stole it from another game before as far as I remember, (syphon filter but I don't wanna say something wrong), GEOW just made it popular, because basically, it was more successful than the other one it ripped off.

it was killswitch read my response



Rafux on 20 February 2011

You are wrong about God of War.