So Final Combat, China’s seemingly shameless rip-off of Team Fortress 2, isn’t as shameless as we first thought. I mean, it’s not entirely lifting content from Valve’s shooter. It’s lifting it from EA’s Battlefield Heroes as well!
This gameplay footage, sent in by reader Enrique, shows that while the game’s characters (and announcer) are straight out of TF2, its environments are not. Those are instead from free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes.
Make your “Oh China” jokes all you will, but if you make the decision to steal other people’s content for a game, you should at least aim for the best. And TF2 and Battlefield Heroes (whose art style I adore) are two of the best!
No inner monologue
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 10:02 AMWhy haven’t they been slain by lawyers yet?
Reign
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 4:23 PMSome countries don’t have any real intellectual property laws.
hazza
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 10:45 AMone of the maps shown in other vids, has the exact same layout as the harvest map from tf2.
Joe Mama
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 10:04 AMKnew this when it was first posted like a month ago :?