28th November 2010, 11:41 AM
Yeah, it's a pretty serious Sonic ripoff. Graphically particularly, I don't know if I've ever played a more Sonic-like game that wasn't actually part of the Sonic series... but the standards for clone games for the past few decades has been that ripping off a game's style and design is fine, as long as you don't actually use the original music, art, textures, etc. So as long as you redraw everything you can make some pretty blatant clones. I think it was the early '90s Capcom/Data East (Street Fighter/Fighters History, I think) lawsuit that decided this. Back in the early '80s the Namco Pac-Man/Magnavox K.C. Munchkin lawsuit said that a clone that's similar in terms of gameplay was illegal (Magnavox lost), but later decisions reversed that and certainly since the early '90s at least clones have been mostly okay, as long as you don't actually use the original assets.
At least Socket had a few interesting features and was fun, though very, very derivative. The biggest problem though is how short it is...
At least Socket had a few interesting features and was fun, though very, very derivative. The biggest problem though is how short it is...