{"id":30055,"date":"2012-01-04T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30055"},"modified":"2012-01-04T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:12:59","slug":"5-shameless-clones-on-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/30055-5-shameless-clones-on-ios-and-android","title":{"rendered":"5 Shameless clones on iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s iOS<\/a>, as well as the competing Android OS<\/a>, are on the up as a serious platform for gaming – something that can be seen simply by browsing through the respective app stores, and glancing at the multitude of games, good and bad, that are available for purchase.<\/p>\n

But not every game you know and love has an official iPad or Galaxy Tab release – for every Grand Theft Auto 3 that makes its way onto the app stores, there are a multitude of other popular games that will simply never appear on the touch-controlled devices.<\/p>\n

Not to worry though – thanks to app stores apparently not even giving a flying fruitfly about shameless replication; a number of clones of your favourite games are available for you to play.<\/p>\n

The most hilarious part of it? These clones don’t even try to hide the fact that they’re ripping other games off. Let’s check out 5 of the most shameless iOS\/Android rip-offs we’ve come across.<\/p>\n

Modern Combat 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ripping off:<\/strong> Modern Warfare 3<\/p>\n

We start out with a Gameloft game because, well, they’ve sort of made mobile games that are “inspired” by popular franchises their bread and butter. Modern Warfare 3 isn’t the first game they’ve drawn inspiration from – but it is definitely the most shameless.<\/p>\n

The real pity here is that Modern Combat 3 is actually a pretty fun game – and could definitely stand on its own feet. What makes us sad pandas is how Modern Combat’s name plays off the Modern Warfare brand – and with the release date in close proximity to the big release – we’re sure they enjoyed their share of the hype.<\/p>\n

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MinoMonsters<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ripping off:<\/strong> Pokemon<\/p>\n

The chances of you seeing a proper Pokemon game hitting the Apple or Android stores is pretty unlikely (no, Pok\u00e9mon Say Tap? BW<\/em><\/a> doesn’t count) – so what better option is there, short of sucking it up and just yanking your GameBoy\/DS out?<\/p>\n

Well, you could just play MinoMonsters.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the game is quite different to Pokemon in terms of objectives, animation and gameplay – but what it boils down to is that you’re levelling up themed monsters, and making them fight other monsters in arenas that are set out exactly like Nintendo’s prolific fan-favourite.<\/p>\n

The developers should just call it MinoMon and be done with it.<\/p>\n

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Zanda: Linked Swords<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ripping off:<\/strong> Legend of Zelda<\/p>\n

Do you see what they did there? Zanda. LINKed Swords.Very clever. Change Link’s clothes from green to orange – a few nips here, and some tucks there, and you have yourself a sure-win “tribute” to one of Nintendo’s biggest franchises.<\/p>\n

It’s dangerous to go alone – so clone yourself – right?<\/p>\n

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Eden: World Builder<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ripping off:<\/strong> Minecraft<\/p>\n

Even though Minecraft has its official iOS and Android apps, that hasn’t stopped the developers of Eden: World Builder from shamelessly flaunting a clone. Minecraft is already low-grade awesome in the visual department, and pretty simple in concept – so obviously it didn’t take much for it to be replicated and flogged off to people who don’t know any better – at a lower price, too.<\/p>\n

Eden is essentially Minecraft’s creative mode (which, funnily enough, is exactly what Minecraft mobile is) – with some slight differences. But not really.<\/p>\n

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Super Jump World<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ripping off:<\/strong> Super Mario World<\/p>\n

Take Mario, replace him with a leprechaun, change the turtles into snails and adjust the scenery. Boom. It’s a totally different game. Except for the question mark boxes, coin collecting and pretty much everything else about it.<\/p>\n

Adding “Super” into the title just pushes this game even further into shamelessness. Tsk.<\/p>\n

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Arguably, none of these developers even want to hide the fact that they’re copying popular games; and really, with no “official” apps for fans to devour, there aren’t any real alternatives. But that doesn’t make it any less shameless.<\/p>\n

Probably the worst part about it is that these guys are making money off of other people’s ideas and success (and brands) – and the app stores don’t seem to be that bothered at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your favourite game not available on iOS? Not to worry, chances are someone’s cloned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":30082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[947,959,1786,21,531,1787],"class_list":["post-30055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-clones","tag-headline","tag-ios","tag-rip-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30093,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions\/30093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}