Everything looks like something lately...

I've been noticing a huge trend lately, a trend I would love to relate, but I haven't got a lot of proof right in front of me. However, I'm reminded of this trend by the new game for the PlayStation Network called Crash Commando.

It looks like great fun. A simple concept seems to be at work here, a vast 2D side scrolling world with 12 player multiplayer and over the top ragdoll physics and gore?

That's fantastic, except that it is Soldat. You can see the similarities in the screenshots.

Of course, the Playstation game has richer graphics. Much richer graphics. But, overall, it seems the concept is intact. It's essentially the same game.

This is the trend I've been noticing. There are others, games released on Xbox Live! Arcade and on various flash sites, all of which bear striking resemblances to other games. And I don't mean to say that they sport similar ideas or concepts, but rather, that they seem to be the very same game at their cores. I'm willing to accept other explanations for this, far fetched thought they might be.

Again, I've no other examples to site at the moment, but when my feeble brain's short and long term memory failures stop, or I stumble across another example, I will gladly serve it up.

I will say, however, that I have to admit that Soldat, at it's very core, seems suspiciously similar to CrackDotCom's Abuse. There is a striking resemblance anyway.