Everyone knows how wildly successful World of Warcraft has been around the world, and I’m surprised MMORPG developers waited so long to make knock offs of it. There is nothing wrong with borrowing some of the successful features of a competitor but the following games are shameless knock offs; 4Story, Talisman Online and the upcoming Runes of Magic MMO game. When I say “shameless knock offs” I mean the developers seriously looked at World of Warcraft and copied every aspect of the game to the best of their abilities.
For your Reference; A screen shot from World of Warcraft
4Story
When I first started playing 4Story I was shocked by how similar it was to World of Warcraft. Everything from the games graphics to the interface looked just like World of Warcraft. There is no doubt that World of Warcraft is a good game, so logic dictates that if someone copies World of Warcraft, that game will be good as well. This is true for the most part, as game play is generally fun, but if you’ve played World of Warcraft before, playing 4Story will feel like a cheap knockoff. The game is still worth checking out if you’ve never played World of Warcraft before or you don’t want to pay for it.
Talisman Online looks even more like a cheap knockoff of World of Warcraft. It’s clear that the game tried to copy World of Warcraft’s interface and graphics, but it only succeeded half way. If you look at the game’s spell icons they look almost identical to the spell icons from World of Warcraft. Take a look at the Ice bolt icon, it’s the same exact icon from World of Warcraft! The graphics are a bit jagged to, but other than that; the games are pretty similar; minus the fact that Talisman is obviously an inferior game.
This is the newest World of Warcraft spoof out there and the game hasn’t even been released yet. Runes of Magic looks like the most “polished” World of Warcraft knock off and will probably be an excellent alternative to the actual game. The game will also be free to play mmorpg, so it may attract a lot of players who were interested in playing World of Warcraft, but didn’t want to pay for it. Check out the trailer for this one.
These cheap knock offs that you mention. Are they knock offs due to the fact that there graphics are “cartoony” or is it something besides that. I mean when you think about it merely having cartoony graphics doesn’t necessarily make a game a copy of world of warcraft. I understand that wow holds true to it’s visual feel by using the same kind of graphics that they displayed int he rts but i hardly agree that using cartoony graphics is exclusively the visual feel of wow. nor do i feel that other games should be judge as such.
The game essentially looks good, I’m tired of WoW and am looking for a more casual gameplay. I’ll give it a go
It is not just the graphics but the character designs themselves. I’v played plenty of games with “Cartoony” designs that looked NOTHING like WoW. And its not just the graphics, but the HUD(where you access your spells and items) the spells, monsters, lvling system, map and terrain system, and just overall gameplay.
what bullshit, another post and spam of WoW spoofs…just because theres tons of people that play WoW doesnt mean it is the reason for all these good games come out, seeing as WoW took many of the earlier games ideas and the fact that the game sucks.
“When I say “shameless knock offs” I mean the developers seriously looked at World of Warcraft and copied every aspect of the game to the best of their abilities.”
yeah, too bad runes of magic dungeons look a ton better, 4 story has alot better PvP, and talisman online focuses on unique upgrading?
Its obvious you’re one of those nerds who sits there playing WoW all day…
domocus.. he’s referring to the gameplay of the game and some aspects of graphics and interface..
the essential of the game is similar.. its themes might be different..
E.g
Half Life and Counter-Strike.
Do you understand that now? I woudlnt be surprised if 4story, talisman online and Runes of Magic had chunks of WoW code and programming lol.