THQ And Activision Go At It Over Cover Art/They Settle Out Of Court

[DigitalSpace]

This battle of the Baja games is even bigger than the Presidental election!

Two games aiming to appeal to the Joe the Baja fan...

...who may or may not be a plumber.

[jcalder8]

There...are...FIVE...FOG...LIGHTS!!!

I love this episode, or episodes if you'd rather.

[SegaAges]

There...are...FIVE...FOG...LIGHTS!!!

WIN!

If you want to break it down:

The truck doing a jump in thq's game does not even look blue, in fact, it looks like a dark shade of grey along with the white.

activision has mountains in the background, which thq has a desert

the red car on thq looks like a wierd modified pt cruiser with a spoiler, while the activision red car actually looks like a truck

the thq truck is coming down from the jump, while the activision truck hit the peak of its jump.

the angle in the thq one is more of a front view, while the angle in the activision one is more of a side view.

the fonts are not similar

the logos are both at an angle starting from the left corner. This is not magically exclusive to thq only. other companies do it.



Similarities:
2 baja cars are racing, and the car in the background is in the middle of a jump.

[The 1 2 P]

Similarities:
2 baja cars are racing, and the car in the background is in the middle of a jump.

Um....I don't think it's quite the same thing, lol.

[Rob2600]

The truck doing a jump in thq's game does not even look blue, in fact, it looks like a dark shade of grey along with the white.

activision has mountains in the background, which thq has a desert

the red car on thq looks like a wierd modified pt cruiser with a spoiler, while the activision red car actually looks like a truck

the thq truck is coming down from the jump, while the activision truck hit the peak of its jump.

the angle in the thq one is more of a front view, while the angle in the activision one is more of a side view.

Can you seriously look at these two covers side by side and say they don't look very similar? I know they're not 100% identical, but come on.

[slapdash]

Even the slant of the logo, man! Of course, I wonder if the two respective artists didn't get the image from a videotape anyway, and both subconsciously depicted the same scene in some strange coincidence...

[Push Upstairs]

At most the composition is similar.

As I said before, there isn't a whole lot of creative liberty you can take with something like Baja racing.

Unless you do Baja racing on Mars (Mars racing?)

[emceelokey]

This lawsut is obviously a joint venture between ThQ and Activision to get people to TALK ABOUT BAJA GAMES. 2 games that no one even cared about is now getting free publicity. Shame on both of them.
Maybe those photos are from the same race with two photographers side by side.

[Push Upstairs]

And we fell right into their trap! Damn!

[SegaAges]

And we fell right into their trap! Damn!

[Iron Draggon]

Where's Nelson with the obligatory Baja 'HA-HA!'?

I dunno, but my friend's response was:

"pure coincidence! Baja humbug!"

[emceelokey]

I actually saw these games in person at a Game store the other day... Let's just say I now own two Baja games.

[Nirvana]

I seriously laughed my ass off at this whole case.

XD Why the hell would they blatantly steal their artwork?

[Iron Draggon]

I actually saw these games in person at a Game store the other day... Let's just say I now own two Baja games.

I really wish that THQ made a PC version of their game... I'd love to be able to compare them side by side... but at least my copy of Activision's game arrived in the mail today... so I now own yet another piece of history, if the artwork ends up getting changed... if that happens, maybe I'll store it next to my copy of Mystaria for the Saturn... anybody remember that lawsuit? it ended up with the name being changed to Blazing Heroes for later releases

[Leo_A]

Too bad the Activision game sucks badly after getting to try it out, the THQ release was a pretty decent title. Best part of the Activision title is the laugh I've gotten out of this whole deal...

[The 1 2 P]

Looks like we will have a happy ending after all. Activision agreed to change the cover art and the revamped image is contained within: http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/ne...lawsuit/?biz=1

[bcks007]

For the ps2 version too? Holy crap if so, i better pick up on the 1st version before it goes away.

[emceelokey]

Happy ending indeed.

[nate1749]

And it's Baja racing...how many different action shots can you really get with it

That's what I was thinking.

[jupitersj]

http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/psx2/jak3_front.JPG

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images...5533_front.jpg

Come sue away come sue away with me dun dun dun