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    Team Fortress 2

    Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Oct 10, 2007

    The long-awaited sequel to the class-based first-person shooter Team Fortress Classic sports a unique cartoony visual style, more accessible gameplay, and a very large amount of updates and new features since its original release.

    Massive TF2 rip off spotted

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    turbomonkey138

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    #1  Edited By turbomonkey138

    Woa i can't believe there doing this . Its a 3rd person tf2 with anime characters

      

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    #2  Edited By The_A_Drain

    So what? Things get ripped off all the time, it's how innovation works. Taking an old idea and tacking something else on to it.

    Besides, this is more like Toy Story meets the current obsession with multiplayer shooters rather than a direct ripoff of TF2.

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    #3  Edited By turbomonkey138
    @The_A_Drain said:
    " So what? Things get ripped off all the time, it's how innovation works. Taking an old idea and tacking something else on to it.Besides, this is more like Toy Story meets the current obsession with multiplayer shooters rather than a direct ripoff of TF2. "
    So what ? thats a bad thing m8
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    #4  Edited By The_A_Drain
    @turbomonkey138:

    Not necessarily, that being my point.

    Things get ripped off all the time, it's how things work, and it's how we get new products, by taking ideas presented by old ones and adapting them. Besides, this doesn't look that much like TF2, and it's obviously lacking classes such as the Medic, Pyro and Spy, and Engineer, so it's obviously more pure action based rather than strategy and only resembles TF2 in style. Who fucking cares? If people didn't take things they thought were cool from other products we would'nt have Gears of War, Dead Space, TF2 in the first place, L4D, or in fact, any of todays modern games.
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    #5  Edited By CowMuffins

    It looks like a fail version of TF2. And it's free probably, so it's going to be terrible.

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    #6  Edited By Out_On_Bail

    It looks fun, how can that be a bad thing?

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    #7  Edited By Ineedaname

    To summaries it's a 3rd person Team Fortress 2, with anime based toy story characters all taking place on De_rats from CS.

    Awesome.

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    #8  Edited By Muttinus_Rump

    I think i'm with The_A_Drain on this one, this doesn't look like a blatant rip off of TF2. There are two teams, one guy has a minigun, and another has bombs? That's a rip off? It obviously takes some things TF2 did into account, but who wouldn't, it was a great game. And besides, do you expect every game to be completely innovative and have all new ideas?

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    #9  Edited By ToxicFruit

    The only thing that the trailer showed me was that the snipers are overpowered.

    looks bad @CowMuffins said:

    " It looks like a fail version of TF2. And it's free probably, so it's going to be terrible. "
    Yeb
    let them make it and lose a lot of money in the progress
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    #10  Edited By The_A_Drain
    @Muttinus_Rump:

    That's the problem, things can't be entirely new and innovative. In order to be innovative you have to take an idea, or product that has been used before. Yet people don't seem to understand that and chuck the words fresh, new, original and innovative in the same barrel all the time.
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    #11  Edited By dsplayer1010

    I looks like it could be fun.

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    #12  Edited By FlipperDesert
    Side-by-side, it's pretty damning.

    That being said, I'd probably give this a shot if it was free to play, it has enough differences from TF2 to make it a different experience.
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    #13  Edited By almak

    I'm a little surprised that this trailer is aimed at the western gaming market (what with the english voice work and all).
    Come to think of it , the likeness to TF2 (which to me seems undeniable) might actually be a marketing move, to a degree it worked, I did see this on a number of news sites (though never in a positive light). Any publicity is better than none I suppose.
    Though I might just be giving them a little to much credit here.

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    #14  Edited By Meowayne

    There are worse things to try and copy than TF2.

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    #15  Edited By metal_mills

    It'll be like TF2 except without interesting, unique characters, great gameplay and dripping with valve quality. Just like Battlefield: Heroes.

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    #16  Edited By Linkyshinks
    @turbomonkey138 said:
    @The_A_Drain said:
    " So what? Things get ripped off all the time, it's how innovation works. Taking an old idea and tacking something else on to it.Besides, this is more like Toy Story meets the current obsession with multiplayer shooters rather than a direct ripoff of TF2. "
    So what ? thats a bad thing m8 "

    It's not a bad thing, and besides how do you come to the assumption it's a rip off, when I myself differences from the get go within the gameplay footage. They're simply using a a well honed formula that works, and adding what they think works better. Videogames are a art form just like any other, artists throughout time have been inspired the efforts of those that have come before them. The exact same applies here.


    It looks like it might be a lot of fun, very Toy Story and Small Soldiers-esque.






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    #17  Edited By Brundage

    of course its a rip off, that's what asians do.

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    #18  Edited By CL60
    @Brundage said:
    " of course its a rip off, that's what asians do. "
    I'm extremely offended, ban this guy now.
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    #19  Edited By metal_mills
    @CL60 said:
    " @Brundage said:
    " of course its a rip off, that's what asians do. "
    I'm extremely offended, ban this guy now. "
    It's a joke, lighten up.
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    #20  Edited By The_A_Drain
    @Almak said:
    "I'm a little surprised that this trailer is aimed at the western gaming market (what with the english voice work and all). Come to think of it , the likeness to TF2 (which to me seems undeniable) might actually be a marketing move, to a degree it worked, I did see this on a number of news sites (though never in a positive light). Any publicity is better than none I suppose. Though I might just be giving them a little to much credit here."

    English voice work doesn't necessarily mean it's aimed at the west. Plenty of japanese only products, and products that eventually see western release, are voiced in (often very bad) english, apparently it's considered 'cool' and whatnot.

    Resident Evil is a prime example, voiced in english and subtitled in Japanese from the word go.
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    #21  Edited By Agnogenic_delete

    If it plays anyway like GUN it could be fun.

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    #22  Edited By CL60

    Seriously...who cares if something is similar to something else...everything is...as long as it's fun, who gives a shit?

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    #23  Edited By Al3xand3r

    Meh, those who don't see it's a rip off are fooling themselves... There's the heavy with a machinegun, there's the scout with a bat, there's the sniper, the soldier with super jump (rocket jump)... Even the music in the trailer is similar, and they attempt a similar cartoon humour for the intro, which they don't quite pull it off... No, it's not 1:1 of every single TF2 aspect, like duh, this is third person, but you can clearly see the influence....

    And yes, there are many other games that spawned from the Team Fortress formula, including Team Fortress 2, like pretty much all class-based FPS out there, but you can certainly see more differences between Battlefield and Team Fortress than between this thing and Team Fortress 2...

    That's like saying hey, Battlefield Heroes isn't clearly inspired by Battlefield (yes, it's EA, they own it all, so it's FINE and COOL for them to do) because it's in third person and has some different classes, vehicles and other aspects... Hell, there are more differences between Battlefield Heroes and the standard Battlefield than there seem to be between Team Fortress 2 and this thing...

    That said, if Valve's cool with it, I'm cool with it. I have a feeling they won't be though, who knows, maybe eventually they wanna dabble in micro-transaction games Battlefield Heroes style, and if others have already adapted Team Fortress 2 to the scheme before them, they won't be able to. If that's what this thing is at least, but it looks Asian, and it's an online FPS, so it probably does have such micro-transactions.

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    #24  Edited By Moose

    Well, why put out a trailer with high production values like that for a rip-off game? Clearly they're confident in it.

    TBH, it's better than a lot of trailers I've seen for AAA console games, anyway.

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    #25  Edited By Diamond

    Definitely a major rip off.  Tons of concepts, the visuals, the music...

    It's a South Korean game, btw.

    Oh, and I noticed they're using red crosses for their healing effect.  Lawsuit incoming from Red Cross?

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    #26  Edited By TheMustacheHero
    @CL60 said:
    " @Brundage said:
    " of course its a rip off, that's what asians do. "
    I'm extremely offended, ban this guy now. "
    Who cares? It's the internet.
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    #27  Edited By The_A_Drain
    @Diamond:

    If it's South Korean they probably wont ever know, find out, or give a damn.

    Besides, who really, really gives a damn if it's a ripoff? Everythings a ripoff, it's how good ideas spread. No need to be offended for somebody else, if Valve want to be offended i'm sure you'll hear about it.
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    #28  Edited By Suicrat
    @turbomonkey138: Uhh... aside from the fact that it has guns and shooting and a colourful palette, I see no similarity to Team Fortress 2.
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    #29  Edited By EvilTwin

    Is that thing running on the source engine?  Some of that stuff looks and sounds almost too similar to TF2.  Even down to the shape and size of the red rectangles that appear around you depending on where you get shot.  But it is a pretty damn awesome concept for a multi-player shooter.

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    #30  Edited By torus

    More like a rip-off of World of Padman.


    Too bad WoP is FREE.


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    #31  Edited By Diamond
    @torus said:
    More like a rip-off of World of Padman.
    He didn't invent those tiny character / huge world maps though.  Padman series are nice though.

    I don't know if you guys noticed the nearly identical minigun and invincibility effect and baseball bat and music in the video.
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    #32  Edited By torus

    True. There was also that game Toy Commander for the Dreamcast.

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    #33  Edited By Diamond
    @torus said:
    " True. There was also that game Toy Commander for the Dreamcast. "
    Well there was Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Harley's Humongous Adventure on SNES, the Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers games...

    But people had been making huge world maps for first person shooters before Padman too.  Padman were just really detailed and interesting ones partially funded from that magazine company that had coconut monkey (forget who it was, PC sister magazine of Game Players)
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    #34  Edited By kmdrkul

    Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I guess.

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    #35  Edited By Absurd

    There are women in this game/@Ineedaname said:

    " To summaries it's a 3rd person Team Fortress 2, with anime based toy story characters all taking place on De_rats from CS.Awesome. "
    That doesn't sound so bad, except for the anime part.
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    #37  Edited By lemon360

    i never liked TF2

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    #38  Edited By PureRok

    Whether this is a rip-off or not... It still looks better than TF2.

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    #39  Edited By T0mF5
    @lemon360:
    Did you play the 360 version?

    I can't believe how similar this is between the art style, music, classes, and how the camera was at the scout's feet  while she was running just like some video with the scout in it for TF2.
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    #41  Edited By sjschmidt93
    @turbomonkey138 said:
    " @The_A_Drain said:
    " So what? Things get ripped off all the time, it's how innovation works. Taking an old idea and tacking something else on to it.Besides, this is more like Toy Story meets the current obsession with multiplayer shooters rather than a direct ripoff of TF2. "
    So what ? thats a bad thing m8 "

    Explain one way that's bad for us, the consumers.
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    #42  Edited By almak
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    #43  Edited By zityz

    The ONLY thing that remotely resembles TF2 is the colour pallate. Aside from that it seams more like Army men with anime characters.

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    #44  Edited By Diamond
    @zityz said:
    " The ONLY thing that remotely resembles TF2 is the colour pallate. Aside from that it seams more like Army men with anime characters. "
    And the minigun model and grenade models are exactly the same, the music style is very similar, the shading style is very similar, the various aspects of the apparent classes are very similar, the presentation of the game in a trailer is similar.

    Yea, just those things.
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    #45  Edited By Akeldama
    @The_A_Drain: exactly. If they "rip it off' and it comes to be way better and improved, thats definitely a good thing. 
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    #46  Edited By slinky6
    @CL60 said:
    " @Brundage said:
    " of course its a rip off, that's what asians do. "
    I'm extremely offended, ban this guy now. "
    I'm extremely offended that you're offended, ban this guy now.
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    #47  Edited By lordofultima

    I don't see how a shooter with action figures that come to life is at all like team fortress 2. Maybe you're missing the point here.

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    @Metal_Mills said:
    " @CL60 said:
    " @Brundage said:
    " of course its a rip off, that's what asians do. "
    I'm extremely offended, ban this guy now. "
    It's a joke, lighten up. "
    Woooo, accepted racism FTW, ya phaggy niggaz.
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    #49  Edited By turbomonkey138

    If you look at the beginning it even starts the same as meet the soldier .

      


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    #50  Edited By turbomonkey138
    @SJSchmidt93 said:
    " @turbomonkey138 said:
    " @The_A_Drain said:
    " So what? Things get ripped off all the time, it's how innovation works. Taking an old idea and tacking something else on to it.Besides, this is more like Toy Story meets the current obsession with multiplayer shooters rather than a direct ripoff of TF2. "
    So what ? thats a bad thing m8 "

    Explain one way that's bad for us, the consumers. "
    Ok smart guy


    here a couple :

    1. We get bad games
    2. We get no good ideas for games
    3. The market comes flooded with other rip offs each as shit as each other

    Thats why its bad


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