Seven months ago, Tencent, the world’s largest game company, revealed a modern project: Motiram litheA futuristic game with an open world from the Polaris Quest studio, in which the machines rule land. If it sounds familiar, the real trailer and his cybernetic animals only implied the specific inspiring source: Horizon Games Sony and Guerrilla Games series. Now Sony takes Tencent to court.
Submitted on July 25, The claim is to block Tencent Since the release of the game, which, as he claims, violates the intellectual property of Sony Interactive Entertainment, while looking for USD 150,000 compensation for each separate work in the horizon. Sony is calling in the lawsuit Light Motiram “Slaved clone” of the horizon, which grossly reproduces some of the characteristic elements found in the PlayStation series.
Original trailer for Motiram It contains machines dressed in white and blue, like the enemies in the horizon, next to a outfit similar to Aborigines with a technology attitude. The heroes differ in that Aloy, a horizon star, has long red hair while the main character in Motiram lithe She is a crumb woman with a shorter hairstyle. But costumes have some similarities, such as the advantage of brown leather. MotiramThe hero can also wear a helmet that makes him look even more like aloy, and Tencent uses this combination in your marketing materials. In the lawsuit, Sony asks to transfer all such marketing materials so that he can destroy them.
Based on the trailer, Horizon is not the only argumentable influence on Motiram lithe; At some point we see how the player’s character lands on the beach in a glider similar to this The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. There is also a vehicle that it resembles Destiny 2Bicycles in Sparrow. To be truthful with Tencent, there are several differentiating ideas, such as a cooperative, building a base and focusing on creation. It is mandatory to chop the recording of trees that you see in most newfangled survival games.
But the affinity with the horizon is hard to ignore, as evidenced by the comments of the fans left Motiram litheTrailer. “When you borrow your work to a friend from school and tell him to copy it, but change some things,” he jokes from the best commentary to the YouTube trailer.
Sony takes part in this public sentiment in the whole lawsuit, in which he cites press articles and comments, which they call similarities as “shameless” and bash Tencent as “Horizon Zero Original”.
Polygon contacted Sony Interactive Entertainment to comment on the lawsuit and will be updated when the company reacts. From this letter, Light Motiram He still has pages Couple and Epic Games Store with the possibility of a game of game wishes.
