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The ultimate nerd game

posted 15 years ago by eer85
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Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy DEAD SPACE - yet you can't escape the fact it's a mish-mash of many horror\sci-fi movies (and games too, for what matters). I have found these ones:

EVEN HORIZONS: people going to a deserted spaceship - plus many enviroments are clearly inspired by the design of the movie

THE THING: polymorphic entities.

LEVIATHAN: polymorphic mutants and people using futuristic mining tools to fight them

VIRUS: alien\monstruos force recombining body parts to create killing machines.

THE EVIL DEAD: recorded statements warning you the monsters have to be dismembered.

ALIEN\ALIENS: the mother of all modern sci-fi\horror stories - no need to comment.

HARDWARE: damaged automatic doors with a penchant for mutilation.

Anything more?

[–] skeletonman13 15 years ago

the picking up the audio tapes was also used in Bioshock

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[–] Major_Goof 15 years ago

Which was used in System Shock 2, first.

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[–] The-Pilot 15 years ago

Shooting with guns is also borrowed from Doom!

[–] Major_Goof 15 years ago

Well, let's be fair. All this game is, really, is an updated Pong.

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[–] billy573 15 years ago

Very very RE4 like in several ways, and no doubt Doom 3, Bioshock/System Shock 2.

[–] xdevilmaycryx 15 years ago

I was furious at the stomping on enemies being a blatant ripoff of Super Mario Bros.

[–] sahilsharma728 15 years ago

Exactly!!!

[–] mongrel1982 14 years ago

Actually Major Goof, though it seems you are clearly joking, it's interesting to imagine that if you actually do the homework, you probably could connect any game to pong.

Have fun though, cause I won't be wasting that much time. ;)

This just in: you're an idiot.
Joey

[–] mongrel1982 14 years ago

if RE5 had only controlled like this game. this is a good game. not the greatest of all time, but. however the controls have amped the survhorror genre and re5 would have been better with them. agree?

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[–] Blues32 14 years ago

Man, I should be able to add to this. Trying to think of a movie with an object or item that induces madness...but I'm drawing a blank. Hate Mondays...

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[–] natureman_99 12 years ago

Babylon 5: Thirdspace, the alien artifact. Also, possibly the book Space Vampires upon which the movie Lifeforce was (loosely) based.

[–] AndreiPavlov 9 years ago

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): the Obelisk thing.

[–] agentdc7 9 years ago

To be honest, I believe Event Horizons was inspired by Alien. And Leviathan was basically a rip off of The Thing and Abyss. But good list.