10 Video Games that Were Clearly Inspired by Other Games

As anyone who's ever created anything will tell you, ideas don't grow on trees. This is especially true of video games: with so many moving parts making up any given title, pure originality isn't easy to come by, and that's okay – taking cues from other games is a good way to get the creative juices flowing. From Braid to SimCity here are 10 Video Games that Were Clearly Inspired by Other Games!

Script: Niall Gray
Video Editor: Leonardo Bacalzo

#simcity #Braid #Splatoon

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[nezuminora]

What's really cool to see is franchises influencing each other, for example you can see some influences of the Zelda series on Ico and Shadow of the Collosus, and subsequently you can see those two titles influencing subsequent Zeldas.

[jamesmurray]

“One does not simply walk into Mordor!”

Batman does! 👍😄👍

[Marc_Araujo]

I would love a re-release of the classic GTA games: GTA; GTA: London - 1969; GTA: London - 1961; and GTA 2 in a nice package where they could all be easily accessed and run on modern systems (like on Steam).

[selfloathingweekly]

I'm going to be that guy and tell you that Assassin's Creed was originally a Prince Of Persia title when it was in development.

Saying it was "inspired" by POP makes no sense because it was literally a pop title

[nahomgirma]

5:18 I find it a bit odd that you said that Perfect Dark was made by Nintendo, when in fact, they had almost nothing to do with it as it was made by their then second party developer, Rare.

[Wercik]

Guitar Freaks was clearly inspired by the Quest for Fame game. Cheers.

[chug]

Why does everyone forget that the Arkham games copied THEIR combat system from the earlier Spiderman games...ever notice how Batman's parry prompt looks EXACTLY like Spidey Sense?

It does annoy me when game journalists always claim the Arkham games pioneered this combat system when they only refined it

[jounihatinen]

John Carmack once told that Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were inspired by Gauntlet. They are labyrinths with monsters, locked doors and keys. Gauntlet is just 2D version of it.

[jordanhazelwood]

The GTA-flavored Pac-Man clone from Arcade Paradise makes a lot more sense to me now.

[NathanielBarlam]

Good list, would also add Undertale being directly inspired by Earthbound/Mother 3 and Pizza Tower being inspired by the Wario Land series.

[DrtyALGreen]

What I miss most about the original GTA....the burp\fart button.

[Mankey]

Of course when it comes to original IPs in video games. They’ll be other games that takes inspiration from them. This is why we call them clones of those games. They’ve been doing this since the 8-but era.

[hotdoggington]

I had my speed set to half from a previous video when I started this and for like half a second legit thought Ashton was doing a drunk bit

[ryant]

Criterion's Burnout was inspired Konami's arcade racing game "Thrill Drive". As first two game are more arcade oriented racing game

[SpecShadow]

Ultima Underworld inspiring Carmack to create his own engine and then Wolf3D and Doom
Getaway inspired GTA3

[PRFA]

The cover mechanic in video games apear way before kill switch... Operation WInback for the N64 already had it...

[dbone]

I always felt that the original GTA was inspired by the 1987 arcade game APB.

[paulbennett]

Tomb Raider:Legend 2006
Uncharted:Drake’s Fortune 2007
Just saying!

[jamalvargas]

Kinda Like How Family Guy Was Inspired By: The Simpsons for the television equivalent

[Djordje_Jovanovic]

& as always fellow gamers, here are 10 honorable mentions:

Call of Duty inspired by Medal of Honor
Crash Team Racing inspired by Mario Kart
Demon's Souls/Dark Souls inspired by King's Field
Fighting Force inspired by Streets of Rage
Resident Evil inspired by Sweet Home
Sleeping Dogs inspired by True Crime
Spyro the Dragon inspired by Super Mario 64
Street Fighter inspired by Yie Ar Kung-Fu
TimeSplitters inspired by GoldenEye
Visage inspired by P.T.