Sega of America has filed a lawsuit against Electronic Arts

[Katsuya]

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Sega of America has filed a lawsuit against Electronic Arts, Radical Games, Fox Entertainment and Fox Interactive, such that The Simpsons Road Rage has deliberately copy and imitate Sega's Crazy Taxi games. Sega claimed they hold the U.S. patent on Crazy Taxi, have they have requested the court to stop the sales and import of the game.
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[Andrew Hruska]

Yeah, some of those games feel just like crazy taxi, it's almost like they use the same engine has CT. CT has got to be one of the better sega games, and nobody should copy it

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[op3n_skill]

hmm.... I havent played the game...
Do they have proof? any source codes to compare?

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[Exodus]

whatever the reason, its good. EA needs a kick in the ass with some of the crap they've pulled. damn them for making C&C crap...

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[op3n_skill]

And NBA Live 2004.... it just sucks... NBA 2K4 seems to be better...

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[cloudvii]

i saw that game , and yes , it's similar to crazy taxi very much .

but hey u can't file lawsuits against namco for making galaxian or galaga similar to taito's space invaders

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[Kaiser Sigma]

This is lame, based on such thing Capcom and SNK should file each other for their fighting games, Square could sue at least 50% of the RPGs out there and so on... even Sega took some concepts from other companies...

[Exodus]

well, maybe they don't see enough difference between the 2 games. capcom and snk fighters play differently and rpgs are a genre... but yeah, it is a load of crap. bad sega.

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[Kaiser Sigma]

I disagree, some of the KoF games show heavily influence by Capcom titles... same goes for some of the RPGs out there (not necessarily compared to FF games, but yes to Square titles)... the thing is, there's always a sort of basis for a genre. It's not bad to follow it (yes to carbon-copy it), at least not bad enough to sue someone...

[Exodus]

maybe sega is just a little paranoid that the things they are offering in their game development comeback might be stolen. besides, its fox. we all know they're evil.

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Sega is making losses or something..?

[Xinu0]

In their review for the game, Gamespot cited the simpsons game as "Crazy Taxi in Springfield"...
I myself have not played both games(played CT).

Business.......

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[Boltzmann]

I cannot give an appropriate opinion, since I never played this Simpsons game, but so far I agree with Kaiser Sigma's opinion.

It looks like some desperate measure taken by Sega

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[Kane]

Well considering I played both, I can honestly say that Simpsons Road Rage is a direct copy of Crazy Taxi with Simpsons characters and a vs mode. That's all there is too it.

Hit and Run is essentialy Simpsons: GTA, and I'm sure Rockstar are going to have words on that.

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[Xinu0]

Well, rockstar did not say anything about "Gangster GTA"(akaMafia)...

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[Noxious Ninja]

Originally Posted by Katsuya

Sega claimed they hold the U.S. patent on Crazy Taxi, have they have requested the court to stop the sales and import of the game.

Whoa there. How exactly do you patent a game? That is just plain dumb.

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[INCA]

If someones uses your idea and you patent it, then you should get a piece of the profit. its that simple. Though it does look desperate by Sega's part.

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[Raziel]

Originally Posted by Xinu0

Well, rockstar did not say anything about "Gangster GTA"(akaMafia)...

Yeah, cause Mafia is better than GTA in every way, story, gfx, interest, EVERYTHING ! And it doesn't really play like GTA anyway.

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I doubt if this is smart even...ea might sue sega because of some sports games in return ;P

[Kaiser Sigma]

That's nothing, the creators of Pitfall could sue every single company on the world who made a platform game