I watched my brother play God of War III, and it was definitely a beautiful game… However it was more of the same really. Kratos running around growling and screaming killing everyone, his character is boring to me. I then watch him play Dante’s Inferno.. Sure it wasn’t as pretty as God of War, but Dante was a hell of a lot more interesting than Kratos. I loved how they took the classic, and added things to make it more exciting-that’s exactly what my team and I are doing with the beat-em-up title, a lot of influence for it comes from stories of the bible.

I’m really interesting in seeing how things go in a sequel to Dante’s Inferno. I have to say I wouldn’t care too much if a God of War IV was announced. First one was amazing because it changed the way platform games were to be done in this era of gaming. Second one was great a continuation of this awesome badass… Third as I said was more of the same just prettier and it was a bore.

I’ve always been a fan of Final Fantasy since the day it came out for NES… However the series has become more of the same just prettier and prettier. Lost Odyssey was a beautiful game, but also far more interesting than Final Fantasy.

Oh, I forgot, torchlight is just a ripoff of Gauntlet Legends. And really, that can be traced back all the way to D&D ’74.

Ummm… I know I’m late to this (as usual), so, to the guy who posted this. Even when talking about the specific game, Medal of Honor actually launched before COD: Black OPs. IMO, both games are just derivatives of COD4, but that would only make too much sense. We could go so far to say they are based on Battlefield: Vietnam (and I don’t mean Bad Company’s rehash). You see, we can go a lot of places with derivatives and second derivatives and third derivatives. Just make sure you are chronological.

You could have easily put that God of War was a derivative of Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors. Or we could say that Bioshock was a ripoff of Painkiller. I think I’m sensing that this was written with the express intent to only give credit to games that have done well. I mean, it’s really not hard to make this list properly. All you need to do is a little bit of homework.

Little chance of that happening. Why bother doing proper research when you can skim the surface and ignore many games roots.

Anyway, and Bobsaid, Medal of Honur came before Call of Duty, unfortunatly, most people forget this because EA havent been releasing a MoH game every year, unlike Activision, who have gone the way of the old EA (And taken all the hate too!)

Dante’s Inferno was especially bad. There are games that are based off of others, but then there were ones which pretty much copy engine page for page, including the same old issues that are still there in GOW, and just change the location and story.
DI got lower scores for being exactly what it is, a pale imitation that just makes people want to play od of War instead.