Biggest Hollywood Rip-Offs

March 31, 2009 | By: Chris Buffa

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Without a big assist from big movies, these eight games would probably not exist.

Wait a second. We've seen this before.

Over the years, we've noticed that game makers often draw inspiration other forms of media, comic books, novels, TV and especially movies. That inspiration sometimes gets a more direct translation, to the point we'll play a game and think, "Hey, I've seen this before!" Coincidence? We think not.

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khmerishme at 2:28 pm on April 5th 2009

That got me to think About Fear and The Ring. The Ring should ALSO Get sued by 100 other Japanese Horror films because of their similarities.

khmerishme at 2:27 pm on April 5th 2009

Wow.. Just Wow. Theres STORY behind Deadspace if you idiots didn't know. It gets a lot deeper.

deminytemair at 5:57 pm on April 3rd 2009

Marley & Me just came out. Nintendogs was one of the first DS games... It damn sure didn't come out last week.

natip99 at 5:44 pm on April 3rd 2009

a complete waste of my already worthless time. i've hit a new low in my life by making the conscious desicision to look at this list....yes, i'm that pathetic, thanks for making it even worse gamedaily

r2d2sarse at 3:30 pm on April 3rd 2009

All of you who say "Oh, I could do this better". I dare you, no, I implore that you go do so. I want to see what kind of a hackjob you idiots could come up with.

llawlieto at 11:19 am on April 3rd 2009

Course half the movies mentioned came in after the games. So quite possibly it could have been taken the other way to. movies based off video games? coincidence...I think not XP

liquidsnarf92 at 11:18 am on April 3rd 2009

F()ck gamedaily. F()cking fail at writing articles every time.

xxtrippykittyxx at 11:09 am on April 3rd 2009

are you some kind of ass? its written everywhere, even the game box, that its based on Dawn of the Dead and 28 days later.

senniccomg at 5:59 am on April 3rd 2009

Who ever wrote this article..... Please quit your job. You honestly would be more successful at a McDonalds drive threw. You know nothing about these games god this article pissed me off.

soulflycub24 at 5:14 am on April 3rd 2009

how are you gonna say metal gear was a ripoff of rambo when any functional human being knows it was ripped straight from escape from new york and l.a.?