When artists don't pay attention: Rabbids meet Sam & Max
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The boys at GayGamer.net were sifting through their Ubidays press materials and, between deciding whether Double Agent Sam Fisher looked hotter than Conviction Fisher, noticed a very peculiar little thing with the Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 ad. Turns out that it looks very, very, similar to the Sam & Max poster from late last year.
Boy of Tomorrow writes, "I'm not the only one seeing a distinct similarity between these two images, am I? Don't get me wrong, Rayman: Raving Rabbids is a fantastic title, but maybe someone should've done a little research on behalf of Ubisoft before they released the image on the right. It's not like they don't have any contact with the Sam & Max games, y'know, Telltale Games actually develops the C.S.I. titles for them."
As the French might say, "Le oops!" Granted, the Sam & Max ad is clearly based on the iconic War of the Worlds image of the alien hand on the Earth, but bunny ears popping out of the planet is definitely Sam & Max. We're just imagining how this one got through. It's a fantastic image for Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, it's just too bad it was done six months ago by another game.
Oh well, check out the Transformers inspired Raving Rabbids 2 trailer after the break.
Reader Comments (14)
Posted: May 23rd 2007 11:17PM MiniDragon said
Maybe it was intentional. I mean, the trailer is a spoof of Transformers. Maybe that pic is a spoof of the Sam and max one.
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Posted: May 23rd 2007 11:30PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
Yeah, I'm thinking it's an intentional spoof, too.
Further proof: The gameplay videos that popped up on GameTrailers:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=mov&id=19917
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=mov&id=19915
Show a couple of Rabbids, very blatantly, dressed as Naruto and Spider-Man.
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Further proof: The gameplay videos that popped up on GameTrailers:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=mov&id=19917
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=mov&id=19915
Show a couple of Rabbids, very blatantly, dressed as Naruto and Spider-Man.
Posted: May 23rd 2007 11:33PM MosquitoControl said
That Sam and Max ad isn't iconic enough to be spoofed.
So I doubt it's a spoof of it.
I never played Raving Rabbids. The gameplay seemed not so hot. The characters, however, and the many trailers, destroy me. I watched the original ones many times. That scream out of nowhere... it was unfortunately missing in this one (not as long, not as out of nowhere) but it still cracks me up.
Great, great characters. Now they just need a real game, not minigames.
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So I doubt it's a spoof of it.
I never played Raving Rabbids. The gameplay seemed not so hot. The characters, however, and the many trailers, destroy me. I watched the original ones many times. That scream out of nowhere... it was unfortunately missing in this one (not as long, not as out of nowhere) but it still cracks me up.
Great, great characters. Now they just need a real game, not minigames.
Posted: May 24th 2007 12:08AM samfish said
That's not a spoof ad for Raving Rabbids. If they wanted to spoof the Sam & Max ad, they could have been a LOT less subtle about it. I can personally think of maybe 10 ways for RR to spoof the S&M ad off the top of my head, every one of them obvious it's a play on the original.
As someone who does this crap for a living, I can say safely that it happens all the time, really. Sometimes it's accidental, sometimes it's deliberate and sometimes it's just a case of not realizing that you're borrowing too liberally from another source.
C'est la vie.
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As someone who does this crap for a living, I can say safely that it happens all the time, really. Sometimes it's accidental, sometimes it's deliberate and sometimes it's just a case of not realizing that you're borrowing too liberally from another source.
C'est la vie.
Posted: May 24th 2007 12:14AM (Unverified) said
I'm pretty sure it's intentional, like 2 and 4 have said.
And Ubisoft is making a Naruto game for the 360 so I don't think there are problems there.
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And Ubisoft is making a Naruto game for the 360 so I don't think there are problems there.
Posted: May 24th 2007 12:33AM (Unverified) said
Well... telltale and ubisoft *could* also just be using the same advertising people as well.
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Posted: May 24th 2007 1:50AM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
Actdeft, while they do, indeed, have a Naruto license, that doesn't explain the Spider-Man rabbid, or the usage of the Metal Gear Solid "!" sound effect in the RRR1 ad for the Leipzig Game Convention.
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Posted: May 24th 2007 8:55AM Peter Moore said
It's called parody. It's legal as long as it makes fun of something. If it was Spider-Man himself in the game, there would be a problem, but it's not. It's a rabbit in a Spider-Man-esqe suit.
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Posted: May 24th 2007 9:18AM (Unverified) said
"Granted, the Sam & Max ad is clearly based on the iconic War of the Worlds image of the alien hand on the Earth"
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but that "iconic image" of the alien hand on the earth is from the 2005 movie right? How exactly is that movie "iconic"?
I would have assumed the picture to be based on the obviously iconic opening images of "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but that "iconic image" of the alien hand on the earth is from the 2005 movie right? How exactly is that movie "iconic"?
I would have assumed the picture to be based on the obviously iconic opening images of "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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