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    RedLynxANBA's Avatar Trials Developer
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    Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    Guys check this game:
    http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/monster-truck-trials/

    It has totally similar look and desing than our MTN game AND it then add Trials at the end!!

    I cannot find the daveloper homepage or anything?? Would be fun to ask what they are after.
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    Wow, really... sick attention to the details.

    The weird thing is that as a homepage there is the GGotD page. Googling the publisher or the game shows only a free 2D flash game with the same name and nothing else. You can't even download the trial version as it seems.
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    After some more... investigation , it seems that this game and its addon (with the sub-title Arctic), both given at GGotD, are basically THIS game, called Monster Truck Challenge.

    One thing, MTC is totally free. So i downloaded and played it and i have to say that it's indeed a MTN rip-off, but a bad one. Controls/physics generally are way worst than MTN's, but everything in the game seems like an un-optimized copy/paste. Even the R button works, but it's bugged. It throws you out of the track and you have to reset through the menu. I could say more, but the best you can do is try it for yourself.

    Btw, the fact that MTC is free and MTT is not, makes me wonder...
    a) A rip-off of a rip-off and charging for it too?
    b) Both from the same author, but with a different name?

    Btw number two , i couldn't find any hint of a developer in the game. Or a readme file, an About section, something. Just a company name in the license agreement. Maybe you want to contact them?

    Anyway, that's all for now. Hope you enjoyed the reading.


    EDIT: How about moving this thread to the MTN section, since it has to do mostly with it?
    Plus that the Online features thread will probably feel really lonely there.
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    Originally Posted by soad667
    Even the R button works, but it's bugged.
    That's hilarious
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    yep we can move it to MT Thread.. i just wait few days until they make exact copy of Trials soon

    Man it would be fun to find the company behind this.
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    Good to see some clones coming up... adds a little bit pressure for us to make even better games!
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    Mmm, I tried it, played all 15 levels, I had fun.

    But the controls are not nearly as relaxed as the real Trials
    But I'm not sure you can call it a rip...
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    no not trials.. this is bit wrong thread. Monster Truck nitro:http://www.monstertrucksnitro.com/

    Even objects, placement,ui... all pretty much identical
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    Originally Posted by ANBA
    no not trials.. this is bit wrong thread. Monster Truck nitro:http://www.monstertrucksnitro.com/

    Even objects, placement,ui... all pretty much identical

    Man, I downloaded this and I can say it's a clone to say the least, although it is an inferior one. It ran like crap and made my PC freeze. I seriously hope that ******bag gets what's coming to him, a lawsuit, if only you could know who he is.
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    Re: Ripoff from MTN and Trials

    i dont mind people or companies try to make SIMILAR games. Thats ok, BUT this game is just totally same (but not good). And it makes consumers/players/press to wonder whats what. Thats why its not ok.
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