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The Top 7… shameless rip-offs

The games that stole from the best attempting to beat the rest

Words: Dave Meikleham, GamesRadar UK

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AMayer - 3 months 15 hours ago

I agree with Unoriginal. Why are there no Grand Theft Auto clones on here? And personally, I think this Top 7 was very "meh".

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Yeager1122 - 3 months 14 hours ago

I had never heard of robopon untill now cant beleive they got away with ripping everything off everything that is pokemon.

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FlyinMX - 3 months 14 hours ago

What about Limbo of the Lost?

Then again, it doesn't really steal gameplay ideas, it just stole everything else, lol.

http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/pc/limbo-lost

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Yar - 3 months 14 hours ago

Although I liked this article, I had to laugh at your Dead Space comment...

The photocopied premise: A gun-toting protagonist shoots loads of corpse-harvesting monsters in a hostile environment.

That's pretty much every Resident Evil game, not to mention Dead Rising. Actually, just every game with zombies. You didn't really narrow it down much. :P

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TractorBoy21 - 3 months 13 hours ago

I HATE YOU ROBOPON!

I bet the feckin music is ripped off as well!

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FinalGamer - 3 months 13 hours ago

Damn I didn't realise Syphon Filter was such a copy?

Shame because I REALLY love the original PS1 trilogy.

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prahanormal - 3 months 13 hours ago

Dead space bored me to tears. I didn't feel even the bit amerced or scared throughout the entire game. I do agree it was a lot better than Resident Evil 5 though.

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gopikmin - 3 months 13 hours ago

Pokemon green only came out in japan. Pokemon Blue came everywhere except japan.

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Ulukai - 3 months 12 hours ago

I felt Dead Space was more of a rip off of System Shock and Doom 3 personally. But i would add a touch of Res 4 in there.

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gatornation1254 - 3 months 12 hours ago

In a way Crash Team Racing is a Mario Kart clone.

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Stabby_Joe - 3 months 12 hours ago

And yet Dead Space was better than the sequel to Resident Evil 4.

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lovinmyps3 - 3 months 12 hours ago

I actually kinda enjoyed Road Rage. I don't know why. Probably because it was one of my first PS2 games.

And by the way... the original Pokemon games were Red, Blue, and Yellow; not green.

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FETALJUICE - 3 months 11 hours ago

Honestly, Dead Space's single player is much more fun than RE5, which makes Dead Space one of my favorite games.

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CoD_22 - 3 months 9 hours ago

i'm surprised the simpsons: hit and run isnt on this list for completely ripping off gta but with a certificate that allows kids to spend money on it.

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KREATIVEassassin - 3 months 9 hours ago

"Blang blang blang blang blang blang racing!"

Or better yet, "Wai Wai Wai Wai Wai Wai Racing!"

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GrantG - 3 months 9 hours ago

i remember seeing an ad for robopon in a game informer and it looked like if pokemon were robots

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Soren - 3 months 9 hours ago

I think Dead Space take elements for others titles like DOOM 3 ,by example , the atmospheric (the voices, the laments from the backgrounds in dark and tiny rooms and corridors )even the engine in Dead Space is too similar to the idtech 4 engine,the DOOM 3 engine .The audio and video logs in DOOM 3 , a medium to tell and expand the game history of the game , was used too for the studio behind the development of Dead Space .
I think about the necromorph named "the hummannity child", the monster that regenerate himself is a rip off, not from the "Iron Maiden" from Resident Evil 4, but the Nemesis from Resident Evil 3.

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jschild - 3 months 8 hours ago

I can't believe they left out Bioshock. It simply could not have existed without System Shock 2, borrowing liberally from almost every part of that game. Is i a ripoff? No, it's an inspired game, but it copies virtually every game element intact.

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michaelmcc827 - 3 months 8 hours ago

robopon made me lol, they should be sued. And dead space wasn't just a copy of resident evil, it improves on nearly every aspect of the re games and modernizes their stale formula, which is why I love dead space and abhor resident evil. Great article though, props.

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