The trailer for computer title H.A.V.E. Online looks remarkably similar to Team Fortress 2 — so much so that it is actually pissing South Korean gamers off. Comments have been largely vicious.
H.A.V.E. Online is being called “an embarrassment” to the Korean game industry. Check out this comparison clip and judge for yourself.
Last week, we reported that its publisher SK iMedia has not commented about the likeness. Well, the company finally has made a statement. Korean web portal DC News did a phone interview with the publisher. “Debating (as to if it’s a rip off or not) is like having blind men touching an elephant and describing what it looks like,” said SK iMedia. “We will reveal the gameplay soon. Other than that, we have no comment at this time.”
Blind men touching an elephant and describing what it looks like?!
신작 게임 ‘H.A.V.E.’, ‘팀 포트리스2′와 비슷하다? [DC News Thanks, Torokun!]
Denaz
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 4:22 PMGod dam that elephant comment made me laugh!
Yeah pretty much a mirror of Team Fortress, i don’t think this will make it very far
Morkai
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 5:55 PMi’m surprised this made it out of the office
bleach1st
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 5:00 PMI think something might have been lost in translation… maybe it means more in Korean…
Cerzel
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 5:21 PMThe closest thing is the music. It’s not a rip-off, and I fail to understand how people are seeing it as such.
Michael Cohen
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 6:05 PMWhat’s the same?
Music.
Sounds. (Minigun, sniper, demo, baseballbat, gore sounds)
S
couts: Both have shotguns, metal baseball bats, doublejumping
Demoman: Projectiles look EXACTLY the same as TF2. Korean Demoman even has an eyepatch like TF2s
And that’s before getting picky.
plmko
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 6:09 PMOh because Team fortress invented cartoon charactertures, therefore you are never allowed to produce any thing similar right?
Much like everything is a Doom clone.
Metalisticpain
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 7:20 PMIts not that the game is cartoony (Battlefield heroes anyone?) its that it has the exact same weapons and look. The grenandes are exact replicas. The weapons so far have the exact same ones as in TF2…
All that looks different so far is the character model and the level.
Shakey-Lo
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 6:41 PMits a reference to an old parable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Men_and_the_Elephant
Steve
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 6:45 PMIt’s from a proverb type story. The basic story goes that are number of blind men trying to identify what the elephant is, but each person only feel a certain part and come to different conclusions (tail – rope, tusk – pipe, leg – pillar, trunk – tree branch etc). It’s saying how having a limited perspective can cause wrong and differing conclusions.
I still think they ripped off TF2 though.
Khuntza
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 8:21 PMExcept you dont need to be blind to grab the parts of the elephant here..
The character classes appear to mirror TF2..
The trailer seems to borrow heavily from TF2..
The music seems to mimic TF2..
Its all starting to add up to an elephant if you ask me..
Dylan Sale
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 7:41 PMHAVE has robots! How can it be a ripoff? TF2 DOESNT HAVE ROBOTS!
Im sure their defense will be something similar though.
Wooktree
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 11:29 PMFunny how in the trailer it shows the gameplay as being 3rd person and TF2 is 1st person… SO SIMILAR… isn’t it?! I see the similarities in the trailer, but when it comes to the gameplay it’s going to be a different story I reckon. Battlefield games could do the same trailer and people wouldn’t complain.
Brady
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 12:03 PMIt’s more like TF2 and Battlefield Heroes had a baby.