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And what a video to join us for - the top 10 worst video game rip offs.
Now, by worse, we mean games that are actually terrible in terms of gameplay and overall
aesthetics, but we also take a look at rip offs that were just terrible in general, in
the sense that they were lazy and incredibly obvious copycats.
If you’re going to plagiarize, at least do it with style!
That being said, let’s jump in.
10 Super Noah’s Ark 3D This unlicensed title had to use a bypass
slot on the top of it’s cartridge that you had to pop a liscensed game on top of in order
to work with the SNES system.
So naturally this caused it to have a whole lot of trouble accessing the systems full
capabilities.
Because of this, it was slow, had crappy graphics, and pretty much had identical gameplay to
Wolfenstein 3D, except in an arc.
And instead of shooting enemies, you had to shoot your animals with a slingshot to put
them to sleep.
9 Garshasp (gar-sha-sp) This one is God of War but Persian mythology.
Garshasp is an Iranian game with a combat system that’s pretty much identical to that
of the God of War franchise, but poorly done.
And just rotten with glitches and really bad camera movements.
And even had the same kind of intensity graphics fonts and music that the God of War series
has.
8 Chrome Rip off of Halo.
A lot of first person shooter games echo Halo, mainly because the game did a lot for the
genre, causing a lot of FPCs to adopt some of it’s smoother gameplay contributions,
like the dedicated grenade button.
But using the achievements and advancements of another game isn’t the same as copying
it, as we see is the case with PC rip off, Chrome, who clearly had made many aesthetic
choices in order to look closer to Halo.
Choices that were executed really badly.
7 N.O.V.A Speaking of Halo, here’s another rip off
of the game.
This one is a little more aggressive with it’s copycatting though, using similar weapon
models and including a holographic female sidekick.
This one is significantly better looking than Chrome, but if anything that kind of makes
it worse.
It’s like the Dollar Store version of Halo.
Fun.
6 Limbo of the Lost 2008 game is a point and click adventure that
heavily pulls from World of Warcraft, Oblivious and Thief.
But it’s really lack lustre.
And has a gollum rip off character.
First released in Europe in 2007 and later in North America in 2008, the graphics are
painfully subpar, the dialogue is real rough, and many a player felt it plagiarized the
crap out of a number of different fantasy and sci fi titles.
And all of the characters constantly have weird expressions on their fact that make
you super uncomfortable.
A plus for wtf factor.
It’s so so bad.
5 Total Miner: Forge Wonder what this game is a rip off of?
If you guessed Minecraft, well, how could you not?
Aesthetically so very similar, the game actually progressively became more and more like Minecraft
as the updates went on.
In terms of game mechanics, they’re basically the same.
Total Miner was released in 2011, where as Minecraft came out in 2009.
4 Fighter’s History Well, this is basically Street Fighter 2 with
the details changed.
But not even by that much!
They’re pretty much identical.
It’s like developer Data East Corp was like we don’t even care enough to TRY to make
this title distinct.
Bare minimum effort on their part.
Anyway, Capcom immediately sued them after the game was released, to which Data East
was all like “well our game Karate Champ was the true originator of the competitive
fighting game genre which predated Street Fighter”.
Yeaaaah, not really an excuse there.
Also, female Ryu.
Just saying.
3 The Great Giana Sisters This German game received a lot of criticism
for it’s similarities to Super Mario Bros. Which led to rumours of an alleged law suit.
It follows a girl named Giana, who travels through 32 dungeons of monsters in her nightmares
while looking for her sister Maria.
Which, in theory, sounds like a cool concept, but in execution, well, it’s just Super
Mario Bros.
The game was pulled from stores, which led to the law suit rumours, although both the
German developers and Nintendo have denied that such a lawsuit ever existed.
The game did get critical praise for it’s soundtrack, which has gone down in history
as one of the more popular video game soundtracks of all time.
2 Golden Axe Warrior Golden Axe Warrior was a spin off to the highly
successful arcade game Golden Axe, but for the Sega Master System back in 1991.
But rather than mold the game after what made Golden Axe so successful in the first place,
developers basically just copied The Legend of Zelda.
While it received a lot of positive reviews, but much of the push back against it wasn’t
until years and years after its release, most notably with IGN including the game on it’s
A History of Gaming’s Most Shameless Rip Offs article, in which they pointed out the
map similarities, and the “eerily similar soundtrack”.
1 Pong Yep.
A famous classic is actually a blatant rip off.
Magnavox Odyssesy’s analogue engineered game Table Tennis.
The Odyssey was the first home video game console, released in 1972, and came with the
system, which was only capable of displaying three square dots on the screen in monochrome
black and white.
The dots would do different things depending on the game you were playing.
Atari copied the game, elongating the dots so that there were paddles, and of course,
Magnavox tried to sue them.
And then Atari forked out a one time $700 000 licensing fee after evidence surfaced
of Nolan Bushnell being at an Odyssey trade show.
There we have it friends!
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