Biggest game clone/rip-off you've seen?

[Sevre]

TF2 Korean rip off.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Coneman - It vandalizes the Pac-man concepts.
The Adventures of Alundra - Blatant rip-off of Zelda (not that I care for Zelda though)

 

[TotallyFake]

-Warcraft ripping off Warhammer

-Starcraft ripping off Warhammer 40K

-Call of Duty ripping off Medal of Honor...(until CoD4 which was awesome I literally didn't know they were two different games..lol)

-Silent Hill ripping off Resident Evil ripping off Alone in the Dark...(granted Silent Hill is the biggest rip off, Resident Evil is just a dumb down jarheaded version of SH, and AitD has clearly lost it's edge...lol)

I remember hearing rumours that warcraft was going to be a licensed warhammer game, but Games Workshop pulled out, leaving Blizzard to change it to Warcraft. Alternatively, GW sued them for copyright infringement over the similarites. I've dug around the internet, can't find anything on either.

And how does Starcraft rip off 40k? 40K is a Tolkein-fantasy converted straight to sci-fi. Space-elves, Space-Orcs, Space-Mordor, Space-Communists. Okay, they've added other stuff later, eventually becoming a pastiche of James Cameron but it's still mostly a direct conversion. I can't see many similarities between 40K and Starcraft.

And you're horror ripoff rant is incomprehensible. SH ripped off RE, but RE is dumbed down? But RE came first, so surely SH is highbrowed-up? More importantly, other than survival horror they have nothing in common. RE is very science based with a reason behind everything, whereas SH is overtly supernatural. That and RE has nothing like the parallel worlds motif of SH.

 

[Nomanslander]

-Warcraft ripping off Warhammer

-Starcraft ripping off Warhammer 40K

-Call of Duty ripping off Medal of Honor...(until CoD4 which was awesome I literally didn't know they were two different games..lol)

-Silent Hill ripping off Resident Evil ripping off Alone in the Dark...(granted Silent Hill is the biggest rip off, Resident Evil is just a dumb down jarheaded version of SH, and AitD has clearly lost it's edge...lol)

I remember hearing rumours that warcraft was going to be a licensed warhammer game, but Games Workshop pulled out, leaving Blizzard to change it to Warcraft. Alternatively, GW sued them for copyright infringement over the similarites. I've dug around the internet, can't find anything on either.

And how does Starcraft rip off 40k? 40K is a Tolkein-fantasy converted straight to sci-fi. Space-elves, Space-Orcs, Space-Mordor, Space-Communists. Okay, they've added other stuff later, eventually becoming a pastiche of James Cameron but it's still mostly a direct conversion. I can't see many similarities between 40K and Starcraft.

And you're horror ripoff rant is incomprehensible. SH ripped off RE, but RE is dumbed down? But RE came first, so surely SH is highbrowed-up? More importantly, other than survival horror they have nothing in common. RE is very science based with a reason behind everything, whereas SH is overtly supernatural. That and RE has nothing like the parallel worlds motif of SH.

Ever noticed that the zerg look a lot like the tyranids, protos with eldars, space marines with...well space marines.

The fact that Blizzard tried to rip off Games Workshop twice is what really gets a lot of ppl pissed off.

In any case, Blizzard has manged to make better games out of those two paper thin cutout IPs than most other gaming companies have with Games Workshop original work.

As for the survival horror games....I was pointing out how even though SH was the last carbon copy....it's still a better game.

The only RE that was any good was 4 and they already dumbed it down again with 5.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

Why is no one mentioning the damn near carbon copying of Pikmin's gameplay into Overlord? However that being said I find Overlord to be a much better game in many respects (damn you time limits!) Also, I don't see how Saint's Row copies GTA. The control schemes are significantly different, at least when it comes to combat, the fact that you always work for one gang the whole way through is quite different from GTA as well, and usually the gangs themselves are fairly different from GTA's. The only similarity I see is the setting, which is the big city, and if that constitutes that Saint's Row is a rip off of GTA, then Just Cause is a rip off of Farcry.

 

[Unknower]

I'd rather not start thinking about this. For example, lots of games rip off Half-Life and Halo. Both Half-Life and Halo rip off from Aliens and Starship Troopers (+Predator for Halo and Doom for Half-Life). That doesn't make them bad games though.

Halo 1 ripping off Starcraft Ghost before they even finished it.

(Don't flame me please)

Curse thee, time travel!

 

[Andeck]

X-Blades is totally ripping off God Of War

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

The Dante's Inferno demo felt almost identical (okay, scratch the almost) to God of War. Of course, there are plenty of God of War ripoffs, and the demo was fun, even if it was similar.