Almost two years ago, developer Twisted Pixel released a fun game, called ‘Splosion Man, over Xbox Live Arcade with an even more fun concept: You are ‘Splosion Man, an escaped science experiment who can blow himself up at will, repeatedly, trying to make it out of the comedically-named laboratory, Big Science. A few days ago, Capcom Mobile released MaXplosion, a game featuring the titular Max, who happens to have the ability to repeatedly explode at will, who is trying to escape an evil science laboratory. Yeah, what’s going on is pretty much what you think is going on.
Below is a video of ‘Splosion Man for you to digest,
then compare with this video of MaXplosion:
Employees of Twisted Pixel weren’t to happy about it either, releasing some choice tweets regarding MaXplosion.
Twisted Pixel programmer Mike Henry:
Twisted Pixel co-founder Michael Wilford:
This kind of blatant ripping off happens all the time in the world of mobile games, with developer Gameloft being fairly adept at the practice, but it hurts our gamer-souls just a little bit when Capcom has stooped to such a practice, especially when it seems like they ripped off a more obscure game to avoid notice.
Published: Jan 12, 2011 11:29 am