Give it up for Gameloft, creator of fine imitators of the world’s biggest games. Their latest, Starfront: Collision, hits the iPhone this week, bringing the StarCraft that Blizzard can’t be bothered to make to Apple platforms.
Starfront: Collision spins a familiar yarn of three intergalactic races fighting in real-time strategic combat, all over “rare Xenodium crystals”. There’s the Myriad, an indigenous race of aliens, that you may know better as the Zerg, battling the Consortium, aka the Terrans. Mixing it up with both species is the Protoss-like Wardens.
See Starfront: Collision gameplay in this all-new trailer for the iOS game, gameplay that you’ll feel instantly familiar with.
Republished from Kotaku
Shane
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 12:00 PMThat is possibly the most obvious ripped off game I have ever seen, some of the models look like they were exported from SC2 and just had the quality reduced for the iPhone etc.
Would it be in blizzard rights to get the game taken down?
Steve
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 12:26 PMnot until i buy it :)
Dave Rogers
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 12:27 PMIt must be so soul destroying working for Gameloft.
Nodeity
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 12:41 PMHow the hell are they getting away with that? I wonder how long Blizzard will take to kill it if it’s not legal?
tim
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 1:33 PMJust watched the trailer… doesn’t seem to be anything in there enough for a viable courtcase.
Disco_box
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 1:56 PMGameloft are The Asylum (http://www.imdb.com/company/co0043571/) of the gaming world.
Pat
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 9:44 AMHaha, yes Disco Box- they are.
Scary, i was thinking the exact same thing.
Its a far better business model in the gaming world, though.
Alex Elliott
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 2:51 PMI for one don’t care that they are ripping off games blatantly. If Blizzard aren’t going to bring starcraft to IOS why not let someone else do it and short of bad voice acting, they do it well.