CVG writes: A developer behind the game at the centre of a plagiarism row has said that the title was their entire creation. The allegations of plagiarism started when a writer noticed similarities between the title and Oblivion. Since then, gamers have found hundreds of other instances that seem all-too familiar. Comparisons have been made to Thief 3, UT2004, WoW, Vampire: Bloodlines and even Crysis.
WC: Even some of the best video games have been called out for lifting elements from earlier games, but there’s a difference between borrowing or paying homage to something, and shamelessly pilfering from it, as all the below games demonstrate with a clear certainty. Though not all the games on this list are bad – though a fair few of them are – the air of plagiarism hanging over each, whether it’s an authorised copy or not, certainly dents each game’s reputation, even if two in particular are without doubt regarded as classics.
Here are 10 games that are, for whatever reason, and regardless of their quality, shameless rip-offs in the extreme.
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If you really wanna get technical, all games post 80's is some sort of rip off or "copycat" regardless of how different stories, characters, settings, etc are.
However I do agree there's some that you can tell there was 0 "difference" with some games.
And for the naysayers "Well what about Wolfenstein 3D, that started FPS" no it didn't; it was the first mainstreamed but there's an 80's game (Forgot game exactly) that was an arcade fps that was either ported to pc or it never hit home console.
It's pretty simple. Go to the + next to the website's name. Then, click "WTF?" and "No".
I'm not sure why N4G has this glitch, but it's happened to me plenty of times. I hope they sort it out soon.
Knock-offs. Homages. Clones. Copycats. Rip-offs. Call them what you will, but it’s no great secret that developers have been riding on the coattails of proven success stories since the dawn of gaming. Here’s the top 10 most brazen rip-offs of classic games.
saints Row is more of a game influenced by GTAIII
the rest of those games are BLATANT rip offs and are teetering on lawsuits!!
"Someone better get this kamikaze wimp, an ambulance!" has just become a MEME!!
Ohhh is it COD and MOH cuz they're rip offs of Wolfenstien 3d??
FYI:I know what game you're talking about go troll somewhere else son.
@Prince_Dim-Lu
If your referring to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale I cant wait for that game either as Super Smash Bros is one of the best fighters ever made and now we get to play it with PlayStations fantastic and ecletic charactor range. As rip-offs go this one is looking like it could be a lot of fun, see you in the arena buddy.
I assume you love the PS3 as just quickly looking through your comment history (didn't read anything much just noticed PS3 was in almost every comment you made) it's pretty much all you talk about.
My PS3 is a great Blu Ray player thank you very much. I play my games on my 360 though. Besides God of War, and Uncharted.
I was agreeing with this list until I seen number 1. Saints Row is not a rip off of GTA. Only GTA fanboys and those who haven't played Saints Row think it is.
Using this site's logic, every FPS available today is a rip off of Wolfenstein 3D. Just because they are in the same Genre does not mean a game is a rip off of another. It's stupid logic to think so.
I undertand what u said and respect it,im also a diehard gta fan and i absolutely love sr, have all 3 game, beat them all, had tons of fun (and still is) but with all honesty, saints row is a shameless copy of GTA, from the moment i played the demo of SR1, i was shocked by how everything was similar to gta, the radio stations, the DJ's, the ads, the lines your character say, the strong similarity between saints row 2 and san andreas, i remember one character was basically a copy from Ryder from san andreas, the the voice, the lines etc...
I love Saints Row and I think it is a GTA "rip off" a very good one and I look forward to playing more games like it.
RPS - "With Tim Schafer and Markus Persson now in talks over the possibility of a Psychonauts 2, it gets us to wondering what other games we’d like to see Notch’s millions spent making happen. Notch reports that he and Tim will likely meet at next month’s GDC, but also stresses that people shouldn’t yet get their hopes up. Too late! But were it not to happen, to which game should those spare riches be directed? We’ve made Notch’s mind up for him."
Oh please, gamers will make a big deal out of everything. It's a damn game! As I said before, do you know how many damn nes rpg's and Snes rpg's all looked the same? They all used the same pixles and sprites for their layouts. Hell, alundra and Suikoden used a lot of eachothers items and sounds. Konami and DD have nothing in common.
It's like me drawing a map to what I think the constilations in the sky are opposed to what they really are. You can draw conclusions all over the map and point out things you think are similar all you want. Truth is, you don't know.
High Tension was a complete rip of of Intesity. I mean huge! You don't see Dean Koontz suing anyone. Saw is a complete and total rip off of Torso. George Romero stole the idea for Night of the Living dead from Rod Serling.
See where this is going? just shut up and let the man make his game and make a living.
Spider-man
Honestly..
....and i'm Napoleon.
the most amazing part is taking so many pieces from so many good games ,e ven if they dont all fit together , and yet so amazingly fails and do worse than if they did their own thing .