Call of Duty Clones

[sneeky033]

Lately, it just seems like everyone has decided to do away with the things that made their online FPS franchises unique in order to copy Call of Duty. For example:

Halo: Reach will add multiplayer perks
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is replacing its health bar with on-screen blood spatter and regenerating health
And just look at the newest Medal of Honor game: http://www.medalofhonor.com/

To be fair, I have to admit that I hate CoD (mostly for its multiplayer), but do any CoD fans see this as a good thing? What are all of your opinions on this recent phenomenon?

EDIT: About the blood spatter in BF:BC2, it comes in addition to regenerating health. The health bar was one of the things that made the entire Support class important.

 

[Grayjack]

You know there was blood splatter before MW2, right?

 

[Nincompoop]

This is just stupid. If something works, why not use it?

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Corporate emulation. If one title reaches huge success, then there will tons of similar titles following.

It's nothing new.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[slipknot4]

Um... little did you know but Cod is like the biggest rip off of other games in the fps genre

 

[Pielikey]

I wouldn't call one tiny detail like blood splatter or multi-player perks an absolute clone...

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Someone just figured out the italics function.

I kid.

But seriously, I think more games should have a unique identity, especially Halo, it would be irritating for Reach to become a CoD clone.

EDIT:

You know what?
NO
No no no NO!

No game has ever copied an existing game.
They have developed from each other!

So, by your logic, every game ever is a clone of Pong!
Does that sound reasonable to you?!

DOES IT?!

GOD!

If there was a game exactly like Pong, but it was called Plong, would you say it copied from Pong? I would.

 

[JEBWrench]

I say we bring back the term "Doom clone".

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Big Max]

I don't see how Halo: Reach's armour abilities are anything like perks. How is sprinting, or turning invisible similar in anyway to CoD's perks?

I also don't see how having on screen blood splatter is copying CoD.

 

[Plurralbles]

screen blood splatter should never be in a game, period.

I'd like to say that most games are improvements over COD in one way or another, but now they're taking a huge step back into becoming just as crappy.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

do any CoD fans see this as a good thing? What are all of your opinions on this recent phenomenon?

I sure as hell do.
Most thing that COD brings in are definitely not bad, so I guess it's a plus.

I wouldn't call one tiny detail like blood splatter or multi-player perks an absolute clone...

SSSeconded.

 

[Deleted]

You know there was blood splatter before MW2, right?

If a game popularized something it didn't necessarily have to create it.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

You know there was blood splatter before MW2, right?

If a game popularized something it didn't necessarily have to create it.

But it didn't popularize it! It started using it in the 4th game, well after Gears of War made it popular.

But yeah these things aren't stealing from Call of Duty. If anything, Call of Duty stole it from other games.

 

[TheyTookOurJobs]

But Call Of Duty is a Pac Man clone.

 

[JEBWrench]

But Call Of Duty is a Pac Man clone.

Pac-Man is a Galaxian clone!

 

[Hiphophippo]

But Call Of Duty is a Pac Man clone.

This. Obviously people, pay attention.

 

[WrongSprite]

CoD is a Medal of Honor clone in the first place...this thing works both ways buddy.