Well, let’s be honest here. The first game that came on our minds while watching Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s pre-alpha gameplay walkthrough was Assassin’s Creed. Monolith’s title looked too similar to Ubisoft’s series, and it appears that we weren’t the only ones getting those AC vibes from this new LOTR game.
Assassin’s Creed 2’s former lead, Charles Randall, was shocked with what he saw this afternoon. He was so shocked that accused Monolith and Warner Bros for using code and assets from Ubisoft’s title.
When a fan told Charles that Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor looked more like a Batman ripoff than an Assassin’s Creed ripoff, Charles replied and said he was certain that what Monolith implemented in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was from Assassin’s Creed 2.
Ubisoft and Warner Bros have not replied yet on this issue, and we may never get an answer about whether Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is using assets from AC2 or not.
Kudos to NeoGAF for spotting it!
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yeah, animations, combat, climbing, all look like creed.
Reminds me what cliffy B said, “some see the first game in the series as taking a loss and expect to make the costs back from the sequels”
Well now they dont even bother making sequels, they use the same code and animations/scripts even in diffirent games, cuz you know, no point redoing a animation for the sequel if you already have it in the first game, so no point re-writing the same code that someone lese has already written for another game, just use the same code, dont even bother trying to copy it, just rip it off.
Lazy much?
Lol oops
Probably the second…
Now you’ve taken away the drama from the article :/
Wouldn’t be the first time a Warner Brothers game took copyrighted material and made it theirs (if this is indeed what happened here).
I saw the Footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTxAbObqmY
The Terrain Traversal is IDENTICAL. Not simply similar. I have played every AC game (and every Arkham Batman game). Compare this video with AC. The animations are the same, how it works is the same etc… The climbing is Identical.
Climbing, Stealth animation (Identical), Stealth combat (very similar if not identical), Normal combat (Similar but more from batman), Wraith (Eagle) Vision (Similar), that mini game/system at 4:00 (Similar, but vastly improved upon).
I just hope they got all this through legal means. Like some kind of deal.
Because this game has potential and looks good. I would hate to see it screwed by lawsuits from Ubisoft, because it is assassins creed in there.
dat headbutt
I saw the footage on youtube.
And the terrain traversal is definitely a direct copy/rip off. It is identical. Not just similar. The animations are the same, how it works is the same etc…
Stealth animation (Identical), Stealth combat (very similar if not identical), Normal combat (Similar but more from batman), Wraith (Eagle) Vision (Similar), that mini game/system at 4:00 (Similar, but vastly improved upon).
I just hope they got all this through legal means. Like some kind of deal.
Because this game has potential and looks good. I would hate to see it screwed by lawsuits from Ubisoft.