Seriously, you could probably swap the intro screens and logos without anyone noticing this Fire Emblem game was actually Tear Ring Saga-unless they looked down at the PlayStation controller in their hands. The similarities: Yeesh, where do we start with this one? Theres a grid-based map, turn-based battles, a fantasy setting, dungeons and dragons, a story told through a series of static talking heads, and characters taken from the standard JRPG tropes. Tear Ring Saga was inspired by Fire Emblem The franchises carried the GoldenEye torch for a time, but currently both are gathering dust.

The PS2 titles graphics easily outdid Perfect Darks, but the gameplay similarities were all too obvious.

Those that left formed Free Radical and swiftly put out Timesplitters in 2000 as well. Rare chose to leave the world of Bond to make its own shooter on the same game engine, which launched as Perfect Dark in 2000-but its troubled development saw several key members of Rare leave the company. And even though it launched almost two full years after the film, GoldenEye 007 was a huge smash. Howd this happen? Rare had been mainly known for platformers before making a GoldenEye. Timesplitters had similar tempo and style, but later entries made the multiplayer even wackier by adding monkeys to the mix. Perfect Dark recaptured GoldenEyes entire approach to shooting gameplay, but brought it into a sci-fi setting. So it came as a shock that a game starring James Bond would game to introduce competitive FPS gameplay to millions of console gamers. The similarities: By 1997, people had lowered their expectations for movie tie-ins. Perfect Dark and Timesplitters were inspired by GoldenEye 007 All the franchise musical chairs eventually paid off for Runic, as a number of fans preferred the Torchlight series to Diablo III. Most of that team reformed as Runic Games, and things got REALLY meta as they developed Torchlight, the spiritual successor to Mythos, which in turn was the spiritual successor to Diablo. The team then started on a far more obvious Diablo recreation called Mythos right around when Flagship shut down. Those guys formed Flagship Games to create Hellgate: London, a Diablo-inspired title that flopped straight out of the (hell)gate. Howd this happen? The team at Blizzard North created the multimillion-selling titles Diablo and Diablo II in 2003, many of the key devs left to try something new. Torchlight had the same combat, camera perspective, and randomly generated dungeons as the original, but with the added benefit of HD graphics and helpful pets that saved you a trip to the merchant. Blizzards fantasy adventure was all about collecting loot and slaying demons from an isometric perspective. The similarities: Baldurs Gate may have popularized dungeon crawling first, but it was Diablo that made it huge.

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