6th December 2003, 4:27 PM
Source: Planet GameCube
The game is strikingly reminiscent of Crazy Taxi, but enough for a lawsuit? I don't think you can patent a genre.
The funny part is how concerned EA and Vivendi must be, judging from that last line
Quote:Sega thinks one of the Simpsons games is a bit too much like Crazy Taxi, and is suing.
Simpsons Road Rage is a product of developer Radical Games, and publishers Fox Interactive (now Vivendi) and Electronic Arts. Sega is taking all these parties to court for infringing on a patent that it holds for Crazy Taxi.
Sega says that the year-old Road Rage game was designed to "deliberately copy and imitate" Crazy Taxi, using reviews from numerous publications as sources. The suit wants a halt to sales of the game, recalls of copies currently at retail, and lost profits in the form of damages repaid to Sega.
EA or Vivendi had not seen the lawsuit, and were unavailable for comment.
The game is strikingly reminiscent of Crazy Taxi, but enough for a lawsuit? I don't think you can patent a genre.
The funny part is how concerned EA and Vivendi must be, judging from that last line
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