Games that are blatant rip-offs of movies...

[hittite]

Halo is an obvious rip-off of Starship Troopers (the book more than the movie, but still some of both.)

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What? Are you high?! That's 100% insane.

Halo is an obvious rip-off of Starship Troopers (the book more than the movie, but still some of both.)

How so? I know little of Halo's lore, but just about all of Starship Troopers.

Trust me, he's just insane. Go to Halopeida if you want to read up on the lore for free.

Halo is an obvious rip-off of Starship Troopers (the book more than the movie, but still some of both.)

How so? I know little of Halo's lore, but just about all of Starship Troopers.

Well, let's see, gung-ho space marines wearing half a truck's worth of powered armor and carrying enough firepower to level a small city each are dropped from orbit in metal coffins to fight an inscrutable and genocidal race of ugly aliens. Does this scene sound in any way familiar? The only way it could have been more obvious is if Sgt Johnson had used the "you wanna live forever" line.

I'll admit that Halo is not the first or the most obvious thief of the set-pieces of Starship Troopers, and heck, I'll even admit that it works pretty well. But I agree with Movie Bob on this, Halo really does play like a cross between the book and the movie. Not that that's really a bad thing, in fact I think they pull it off really well.

You just chose bits and pieces of the stuff and ignored most of the canon! SPARTANS are not gung-ho, the ODSTs (the ones normally dropped in) do not have "enough firepower to level a small city" and like I said, YOU IGNORED 99% OF THE LORE! Besides, you are citing Movie Bob for your opinion. Makes it even less credible.

To tell the truth, I was half joking. That entire mini-rant above came from me finally getting my hands on the book last year and seeing the similarities in the two. Of course, that could be said for any story that includes powered armor. Starship Troopers was written almost 60 years ago and is more or less a classic. If I compiled a list of sci-fi that, directly or indirectly, borrowed from Heinlein (or that Heinlein borrowed from), it'd pretty much include everything ever written. Also, I don't really know all that much about the Halo lore, as you call it, I only ever read Fall of Reach. So, sorta not-sorry half-apology over.

 

[Ekonk]

The fight against the Ronin in Saints Row II seemed mightily inspired by Kill Bill.

 

[Mechsoap]

every game made after a movie...

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Mafia 2. Not sure which gangster/mafia movie it rips off, but I manage to guess every key moment in the story. (See Yahtzee, you're not the next Mystic Meg.)

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Pretty much everything D&D based had some roots in The Lord of the Rings, but that is rather obvious.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask shares huge plot point in common with the movie Groundhog Day

This one is kind of backwards, but the Pirates of the Caribbean series has a bunch of things that could be construed as references to Monkey Island. Orlando Bloom's character looks a lot like Guybrush, evil undead pirates (Barbossa even looks a little like LeChuck), helpful voodoo lady, governor's daughter that plays at pirating, tricking a dog to bring you keys with a bone (it actually works in Monkey Island though). I am sure there are plenty more.

 

[Woodsey]

Tomb raider is basically indiana jones with boobs

I believe the main reason for rolling a female protagonist to begin with was because the male character (who became Werner Von Croy) was a carbon copy of Indiana Jones, down to the hat.

Also in one of the missions you can go into a blood soaked bathroom and find a chainsaw which is a rip off of one of the early scenes in Scarface

That's an easter egg, not a rip-off.

 

[schrodingerscat]

Hey thanks for all the input. The Call of Duty/ Enemy At the Gates comparison brought back some memories.

 

[Jandau]

This thread shows that a lot of people don't know the difference between a "ripoff" and a "homage" or a "reference"...

 

[Chris^^]

the Flood bits in the Halo games do smell a bit of Aliens..

Both the Medal of Honour and CoD franchises are guilty of ripping off many WW2 films, saving Private Ryan and Enemy at the Gates in particular.. you'd think that with the wealth of event from WW2 they could pick some parts other than those already covered in meticulous detail by Hollywood - maybe work to educate gamers?

also, didn't Fallout 3 take some ideas from that movie 'The Book of Eli'? (ha. ha. ha.)

 

[Geekosaurus]

The ending of Kane and Lynch 2 at the airport is a complete rip off of Michael Mann's film 'Heat'. Where they're on the outskirts of the airport moving stealthily around these large rectangular block things. I never really realised how hard it is to explain. If you've seen them both then you'll know what I'm on about.

 

[GundamSentinel]

The Russian chapter of Call of Duty (the first game) is pretty much a playable version of "Enemy at the Gates". But that's a great movie with amazing atmosphere, so the resemblance is actually pretty cool.

There was also the part where you have to take over the Pegasus Bridge, which is a perfect copy from The Longest Day.

 

[Tanis]

Final Fantasy 12:
It's what happens with the Japanese watch Star Wars and think 'hey, lets see what this would look like with some transgenders characters and swords!'

 

[Last Valiance]

L4D2 is a rip off Dawn of the Dead. More of a homage really, but meh.

Borderlands is pretty much Mad Max but with less vehicles

 

[Zanaxal]

Anything with LOTR attached to it, i remember playing one, and it had like movie cutscenes every 15 mins. It also had warped maincharacters of the main cast, which was just silly. You can't play gimli etc etc just cause it wouldn't fit the story perfectly, play some alternative character in a messed up version instead.