Did Clockwork Revolution Rip Off Bioshock Infinite?
gameranx.comWe live in a world where there will always be people taking notes from others on how to do things well. If one person “sets a tone” for how things can go, then many other people will follow that tone so that they can make something potentially as good. That’s called “setting a trend,” and as long as you don’t emphatically rip them off by making a recreation of what they did, you’ll be fine. In gaming, that often happens with “clones” of certain titles. But with yesterday’s Xbox Games Showcase, the title Clockwork Revolution has a bit more going on than a “clone problem.”
The game focuses on a Steampunk world ruled by an evil dictator, and you are the one who can save everything by affecting the timeline. But doing so can make things worse, as the trailer points out at the end. Overall, it’s a unique-sounding title that could be a lot of fun. However, after the trailer came out, many people pointed out how similar it looked and felt to Bioshock Infinite and its trailers. In fact, one of the people who made those trailers, including the introductory one, went to Twitter and noted all the similarities between the two trailers and the game itself.
A little over 10 years ago I got to produce the BioShock Infinite trailers, so those scenes are scorched into my brain. Watching the trailer for Clockwork Revolution today I felt like I was having a flashback, so I made some comparisons to see if I was crazy
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