Rip-off designs

Nyerguds · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

heh, I just watched the original War of the Worlds movie, and suddenly I know where EA got their Scrin fighter concepts :p

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:36 am Post subject:

Nyerguds wrote:

heh, I just watched the original War of the Worlds movie, and suddenly I know where EA got their Scrin fighter concepts :p

Maybe a little screenie for those who don't have seen that movie Wink

Rico · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:13 am Post subject:

EA's Scrin Tripod...... Sorry I mean the Tripod from War of the Worlds that they stole the design from Twisted Evil

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And EA's fighter, i mean War of the Worlds 'Tripod'/Fighting machine from 1950's War of the Worlds movie.

I'm sure if I looked hard I could find more EA design ripoffs Razz

TX1138 · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:33 am Post subject:

Westwood's MMK II, Or...

The AT-AT from Star Wars that they stole the design from! Rolling Eyes

But wait! There's more!

Westwood's GDI Medium Tank, Or...

The US Army's M1 Abrams! Another stolen design!

An Allied Attack Dog from RA2, Or....

A German Shepherd! Surprised

They must have stolen the design!

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:57 am Post subject:

That WotW walker looks more like a Half Life 2 Strider to me then a Scrin Tripod...
And TX1138: are you really trying to be funny or what Rolling Eyes

TX1138 · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject:

Nah, I'm really being serious Rolling Eyes

No, seriously, I'm trying to make a point about this. People attack EA over 'stolen designs', when 90% of nearly everything these days has been inspired by one thing or another.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

If people didn't steal idea's. Games and T.V would be fuckin' borin' man. Rolling Eyes

Stygs · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject:

Rico wrote:

EA's Scrin Tripod...... Sorry I mean the Tripod from War of the Worlds that they stole the design from Twisted Evil

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The only similaritie is the fact that both have 3 legs... which may be duo the fact that both are tripods... Rolling Eyes

Nor the weapon, the legs, the arms or the face are similiar to the EA tripod, so calling EAs design "stolen" is very far-fetched...

Same goes for the fighter, where the only similaritie is the basic shape, which is quite common for UFOs in games....

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

H.G.Wells practilly invented the Alien invasion genre. Pretty much every game which mentions an alien is somehow linked to his ideas and the War of the Worlds book. Read the book. (He also wrote about wrote about tanks in a short story he called "The Land Ironclads" (which was written in 1903!). There would be no science fiction today without him.

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