Tiberium Alliances copies tank designs form Warhammer 40k!

[Deleted]

It seems that someone in EA's game development team got lazy and googled for tank designs in other games.

http://imgur.com/0kdcz - EA Bombard Tank is the 1995 Baneblade

http://i.imgur.com/oTju1.jpg - EA Grinder Tank is the 1995 Ork Bonecruncha

What do you think about this? Will GW lawsuit EA for using their designs?

[Keile]

After C&C4 I have lost all faith in EA. They ruined this once awesome series...let it rest in peace...

It died once Westwood was dissolved by EA T_T

[ambigiouslynamed]

shout out? but yes, very similiar. the aesthetic doesnt really fit the main C&C timeline though

[cFortyfive]

That good old armorcast baneblade. Is this the c&c browser game ?

[Hypro]

It will be a tough one... They look very much the same... but all EA needs 2 do is change a thing here and there and go... Well they look the same but if u look at this its different and this aswell which would make it not the same thing

[Zeta333]

Dunno why people assume thats a baneblade, even though the caste is from Gamesworkshop that is absolutely nothing like the Baneblades described in the books.

[Deleted]

Dunno why people assume thats a baneblade, even though the caste is from Gamesworkshop that is absolutely nothing like the Baneblades described in the books.

Well that one is an earlier old edition version. The current one is a bit different, less toy like and more realistic proportions.

[Reluctant]

That grinder tank doesnt really fit C&C wonder why they make it look like that. the baneblade one is simular but thenn again its not like strapping a few extra guns on anny tank doesnt acomplish that by itself

[Deleted]

This just reminds me that we'll likely never get a DoW III. *sob*

[Nerraw]

http://kotaku.com/5901887/ea-says-wa...quer-after-all

I like the badly hidden advertising in that.

[McNeil]

Somehow it makes sence. Those tanks were created in 1995, and storywise thats the exact same year that Tiberium came to earth. The Forgotten simply like to use old tanks, and those tanks were available at the time

[Verdugo]

Somehow it makes sence. Those tanks were created in 1995, and storywise thats the exact same year that Tiberium came to earth. The Forgotten simply like to use old tanks, and those tanks were available at the time

Those tanks would be created much, much later than 1995...

[Nerph-]

Well they did win the Worst company of America award (or whatever) for a reason

[McNeil]

I was actually suprised EA is more evil than all those companies who destroy families

[Deleted]

Well, as long as they don't look like the up to date baneblades, I'm happy

[Noomz]

It seems that someone in EA's game development team got lazy and googled for tank designs in other games.

http://imgur.com/0kdcz - EA Bombard Tank is the 1995 Baneblade

http://i.imgur.com/oTju1.jpg - EA Grinder Tank is the 1995 Ork Bonecruncha

What do you think about this? Will GW lawsuit EA for using their designs?

Games Workshop, now run by a bunch of greedy corporate w"%¤" instead of lovers of the game, will enjoy suing the crap out of EA for every penny possible.
Infact, I hope they do. Would love to see EA get taken down a peg.

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Well, as long as they don't look like the up to date baneblades, I'm happy

It's something I noticed as well. That Baneblade model is really old, isn't it?
There's only so many version of a tank one can make before one seems to copy someone else.

[Dhrizzle]

It will be a tough one... They look very much the same... but all EA needs 2 do is change a thing here and there and go... Well they look the same but if u look at this its different and this aswell which would make it not the same thing

Companies do as you described all the time and as GW have managed to produce so many iconic images it's not surprising to see some fairly blatant inspiration being taken from them. However with these tanks the designs are practicaly identical. The Bombard has the exact same shape and layout as the Baneblade with only a few minor changes to the details, such as the shape of gun-barrels, number of view-slits etc.

The Bonecruncha on the other hand is completely identical with the exception of the small melta-gun stuck on the C&C version. Everything else - and I include small details like the number of spikes on the roller, divisions in the metal-grill window, shape and number of armour panels over the tracks, power-cabling over the tracks, "lascannon" style gun barrels - is exactly the same (apart from one being imperfectly made from 1990's era white metal).

It's bizarre because if EA did mean to copy some GW designs they're not so stupid to not change these little things. It's almost as if the designer had all but forgotten about 40k and subconsciously copied the tanks, or maybe they started with the GW designs and meant to change bits around but only got half-way through the Baneblade before someone released images to the public

---------- Post added 2012-04-14 at 04:31 PM ----------

I was actually suprised EA is more evil than all those companies who destroy families

It shows the state of mind for most people on the internet hate-train. Companies profitting from the death and suffering of millions won't phase them, however a company releasing massively popular entertainment is clearly owned by the devil.

[Deleted]

Games Workshop, now run by a bunch of greedy corporate w"%¤" instead of lovers of the game, will enjoy suing the crap out of EA for every penny possible.
Infact, I hope they do. Would love to see EA get taken down a peg.

So... I take it you didn't like the restrictions the company made on selling their products beyond the European Union.

[Deleted]

How does this differ from the fact that Blizzard completely ripped off warhammer with warcraft and starcraft in every possible model?

[Zeta333]

How does this differ from the fact that Blizzard completely ripped off warhammer with warcraft and starcraft in every possible model?

I cant say about Warhammer fantasy but i can say starcraft is a lame ass excuse of a rip off if it is. 40k Space marines would decimate anything in starcraft, not to mention the imperial guard.