South Korea steals TF2 and puts animu crap all over it

[Forthex]

It's called "H.A.V.E. Online", and kotaku broke the story:

http://kotaku.com/5306691/korean-pc-game-rips+off-team-fortress-2

and here's the HAVE/TF2 trailer comparison:

 

[The Political Gamer]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_S-6-DKFh4"]YouTube - Oncoming Team Fortress 2 RIPOFF game, HAVE Online[/ame]

Ya they ripped off ubers and the Demoman pretty well too.

Anyway, there are more pictures here. But these are the ones to look at.

 

[owly-oop]

OMG SO KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII KEKE ^_____________^



*sigh*

 

[Icarus]

Scandalous wench!

 

[Penguin]

Bloody hell, when side by side, it's an exact match.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

I think the most amusing part of it all is the whole game is rats style. Some of it looks fun though... I've always wanted to play TF2 with everyone thirdperson.

 

[Armadillo of Doom]

Were it not for the fact that this is a TF2 ripoff, it actually does look kinda fun. As Boojum mentioned, the whole Rats aspects lends it a unique appeal. Though it appears like most of these 'action figures' are women.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

The appeal to me was third person. Rats is what I find amusing and uninteresting

 

[grazr]

I think the most amusing part of it all is the whole game is rats style. Some of it looks fun though... I've always wanted to play TF2 with everyone thirdperson.

Yea, i always thought a server with thirdperson activated would be an amusing get away from the standard fps of TF2.

Also, I was just thinking this was TF2 rats crossed with anime. IE the initial female scout in a rats map.

This was so.. mind blowing. I mean, i'm lost for words, the weapons, the camera action, the supposed classes. The humour.......

edit: We have some Chinese students on the Graphic Design course i'm on, and they said there's a chinese word for something like this, they did it for one of our briefs, i'll be damned if i could remember it though but this gets done a lot in the east. Licensing laws are different over there and is often why you can stream data that would otherwise be deemed illegal for public sharing.

 

[FaTony]

I wonder what the hammer 'll look like.

 

[SiniStarR]

part of me wants to say this takes the Battlefield Heroes style more than TF, sure you got the scout Bat but the third person perspective and all that just screams hybrid of Tf and Battlefeild along with some anime. And I guess their demographic is male since you have mostly anime figurines.

 

[NovaSilisko]

It's like the bastard child of BFH and TF2. With anime vomited all over it.

 

[Warchamp7]

I made this

 

[Ganonmaster]

I thought that only the Chinese could get away with this sort of shit...

 

[Naso]

Lol, wow at the demo man rip off, but what can you expect! People run out of ideas and take the lazy route.

If it does come here to America, I bet It would be on some game thing like ijji, and have a ton of buyable upgrades that last 2 days.

On a side note, I wish you could play tf2 3rd person without sv_cheats 1 on, It would be nice.

 

[NovaSilisko]

...I just realized they blatantly stole the minigun sound.

 

[Malcolm]

...I just realized they blatantly stole the minigun sound.

And the sniper rifle sound...

 

[Ida]

What a laughable overreaction. Whoever made the comparisons is seriously telling me that photos of random scenes with characters posing the same way as in various TF2 trailers, means it's a ripoff? Haha. Wow.

When you actually watch the trailer, you'll see that it's very different. There are toy anime girls/robots fighting in a "rats" type of level, in third person. The trailer looks a lot like the first TF2 trailer because it attempts to do the same as that did; to present the different classes in a fighting situation. It's not like the TF2 trailer was original either.

The likeness is either a result of the similar way of presentation (as mentioned), or it's a little homage. The latter does, of course, not mean ripoff in any way.

I'd actually love to play this, if it wasn't for the hideous anime crap that Koreans have to slap onto eveything.

 

[FaTony]

Valve still can win a lawsuit.

 

[The Gentlemanne]

its called H.A.V.E Online.

and it fails me