"Limbo of the Lost" nicks whole environments from various other games

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While I have no general interest in the game, I'm massively amused that a company thought that they would get away with the following.

Limbo of the Lost publisher TriSynergy has responded to yesterday's revelation that the point and click PC game had lifted levels straight from Bethesda's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Since the original discovery it's also emerged that Limbo of the Lost has "borrowed" environments from Thief 2 (see here and here) and assets from Diablo, Morrowind, UT 2004, Silent Hill and Painkiller. They're in trouble.

"TriSynergy says they are just as shocked as everyone else at the screenshots showing elements from other games in Limbo of the Lost, saying they had absolutely no knowledge of this situation until it was uncovered by the gaming press," say Shack News, who managed to get through to a company spokesperson.

"They have contacted Majestic, who are taking a post-release break, and expect to have further comment after hearing back from the developer. They also want to make it clear if they had been aware of this, they would not have allowed the game to be publically released as such.

"Limbo of the Lost is already available in select retail and online stores but further distribution to other outlets is being reevaluated in light of these revelations."

A Bethesda representative has confirmed that its legal team is "looking into" the matter. The many other game companies involved are yet to comment.
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Source - http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=190757

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Wow, taking levels straight out of other games. What are they vampires? how low can you go. I would understand they pay Bethesda Softworks, in advance to get their engine and some mapping etc... but they went to best buy, buy Oblivion and just copy and paste.. haha .. wow.
 
Just goes to show how capital oriented the publishing houses are becoming. Was anyone even employed in quality testing who knew anything about the current state-of-the-art?
 
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Wow, taking levels straight out of other games. What are they vampires? how low can you go. I would understand they pay Bethesda Softworks, in advance to get their engine and some mapping etc... but they went to best buy, buy Oblivion and just copy and paste.. haha .. wow.
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It's happened before. There was a Polish-developed game called The Mark that earned a resounding "meh" from critics that was about 75% identical to a book called Scarecrow by Australian author Matthew Reilly: it involved a US Marine who was a target in a bounty hunt because he was one of a handful of people in the world who could stop a planned nuclear strike on a major Western city. Along the way he had to save his sister, a fellow Marine from a firefight in Afghanistan, and was paired with his doppleganger, a former-soldier-turned-hunter. The only differences between Scarecrow and The Mark - aside from cosmetic ones like names - were that there was only one strike planned in The Mark as opposed to several in Scarecrow, an Reilly's book had the epynomous hero going to save his girlfriend from Afghanistan as opposed to his sister. Didn't receive much attention except in certain circles revolving around the author's fanbase, though.
 
What we see next? Someone taking GT5 Car models and putting them in their own racing games?
 
Holy crap, these guys stole from a lot of games.
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On June 11, 2008 GamePlasma, a gaming news site, posted an article that shows certain places in Limbo of the Lost were identical to the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.[6] After the revelation, others looking into the game discovered environments and features that appeared to be taken from the games The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 2003, Diablo II, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End[citation needed], Thief: The Dark Project, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Crysis[citation needed], Silent Hill 4: The Room[citation needed], Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Painkiller, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Hexen and World of Warcraft.[7][8] Two scenes in particular even appear to be taken from live action films, one from the 1997 film Spawn, and another from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.[9][10] and level design from enclave[citation needed].
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NoxNoctis Umbra
What we see next? Someone taking GT5 Car models and putting them in their own racing games?
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Actually, that's already happening with PC Sim Modders taking models from TDU or a few other games to make cars for GTR2, rFactor, etc. A lot of them, though, get changed up, and are given new physics, sounds, and cockpits.
 
Well, it's one thing for modders to do it, it's another for a developer to do it and then try to sell it as an original creation.
 
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Holy crap, these guys stole from a lot of games.



Actually, that's already happening with PC Sim Modders taking models from TDU or a few other games to make cars for GTR2, rFactor, etc. A lot of them, though, get changed up, and are given new physics, sounds, and cockpits.
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They aren't selling it as a legitimate game though. They're mods.
 

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