After seeing these newly released
Viking: Battle for Asgard screens, it's a wonder that Sega doesn't have a mailbox full of lawsuits from all the other franchises that have "inspired" the game. We've already seen how suspiciously close the game's bad guys look to that of Peter Jackson's orcs, but you can also make the case that the game's giants look a lot like the El Gigantes from
Resident Evil 4, too.
But hey, we're probably just nitpicking, right? The real story here is that
Battle for Asgard appears to feature some really epic battles that are sure to be loads of fun, and these screens prove that. And even if the game is borrowing heavily from a few well-established franchises, at least they know who they should be emulating.
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1-13-2008 @ 4:25PM
choirovwolves said...
Art is derivative... Has been and always will be because most people want one thing: money. Perhaps this is merely a coincidence. If not, then this game is only invoking the fury of Odin.
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1-13-2008 @ 7:35PM
Carlton said...
I'm pretty sure you can't sue someone just because they used the same generic ogre designs that you did.
Not even in America.
I'm gonna play this game while listening to Immigrant Song.
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1-14-2008 @ 1:20AM
LAZoftheTamarinds said...
Well El Gigante also looks a bit like the Lord of the Rings 1 troll:
http://www.comicstatues.com/images/lotrcavetrbst.jpg
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1-14-2008 @ 11:22AM
farfisa said...
Yeah, well what about that guy in SoulCaliber IV?--looks just like that guy from Star Wars!
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1-15-2008 @ 10:04AM
Sequinforaneye said...
does anyone know what those tattoos are called?
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1-16-2008 @ 1:02PM
sockatume said...
Call this a wild guess, but maybe the designers of both RE4 and BfA were lifting the same look from LotR? I recall almost everyone pointing out how Gigante looked like a LotR troll at the time the game came out.
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