Capcom Mobile rips off 'Splosion Man for MaXplosion

by Justin McElroy on Jan 11th 2011 10:15PM

"Holy crap, 'Splosion Man got released for iPhone? How did I miss that?"

We can forgive your confusion as you check out the above screen and the video below the jump, but no, it's not 'Splosion Man, no matter how much every single one of your senses may attest to that fact. No, this is MaXplosion, an iPhone game dumped on iTunes late last week.

Ready for the craziest bit? This isn't some fly-by-night Korean developer operating out of some dude's basement as you might have assumed. No, this is all Capcom Mobile, which is ... disappointing, to say the least.

Speaking on his personal Twitter account, Twisted Pixel programmer Mike Henry said "MaXplosion gameplay video makes me sad. If you're going to outright steal a game, you should at least understand what makes it fun."

Listen Capcom, we know copycatting is rampant on the App Store, but ... you're Capcom for crying out loud! Shouldn't you be better than that?

Tags: capcom, ios, iphone, ipod, maxplosion, mobile, splosion-man, twisted-pixel

Reader Comments (57)

gross

@louiedog I literally came on to make the same comment.

@brer "literally came"

Is that you Premature Ejaculation Man?

@NaeemTHM - He came and went before you arrived. His visit was...brief.

@BananaBoat
Thank you BananaBoat, my PR rep, for clarifying the situation in my absense.

I had to go to save a damsel in distress. Needless to say, her distress has now been replaced with satisfaction.

@Premature ejaculation man

She faked it.

@Premature ejaculation man
I was really hoping you ended that joke with 'disatisfaction'. Oh well.

That's pretty sad. I wonder if Capcom Mobile will acknowledge it. The game doesn't look like much fun, either.

I really want to like Capcom, as they've been responsible for some pretty awesome franchises.

But, the day 1 paid DLC crap and now this? They are slowly making their way to the same end of the developer spectrum that Activision is on.

:|

@The Harbinger of Pie

The "Hey, Street Fighter 4 sold well on the pc, but there was still some pirates, so screw you guys, you're not getting Super Street Fighter 4. Meanwhile we're going to release it to arcades, running on a pc" pissed me off.

@The Harbinger of Pie Capcom is shit. Most Japanese developers are shit.

This hearkens back to all the cheap Pac Man and Donkey Kong clones back in the 80s. Boo to you, Capcom

Have they no pride?

Wow, Capcom mobile. How about next you do a creepy black and white game starring a silent boy and call it Purgatory.

@HITandRUN

LMAO!

@HITandRUN

First they'll need to finish up Super Meat Ball, a collection of 30 second platforming levels following a ball of meat's quest to rescue Gauze Girl. And yes it will control as horribly as one would expect of SMB on an iphone.

Also coming soon from Capcom Mobile, "Tuesday Evening Conflict" a team based third person shooter where you escort robots to break into your opponents money vault.

@thepizzapotamus

Coming to a device near you, Sunday Morning Sit-down.

For some reason when Gameloft does this, it's not as offense. Maybe it's because the games they rip-off are multi-million dollar sellers (so it's not like there's going to be a huge loss in sales), or maybe it's because their "ports" are clearly tributes.

This..this is just dirty.

I didn't know that Gameloft changed their name to Capcom Mobile.

@NaeemTHM

Oops, didn't mean that as a reply. Must've seen "Gameloft" in your post and immediately went into a blind clicking rage so I could say something negative about their blatant (and prolific) plagiarism. Why go to Korea to find rip off artists when you can go to gay Paree?

Wow, that's pretty shameless, and yet, it looks completely devoid of fun. On the other hand, 'Splosion Man was loads of fun. It'd be pretty awesome if Twisted Pixel could release an iOS version of 'Splosion Man and show them how it's done.

@daringone - The Twisted Pixel CEO is already ahead of you on showing them how it's done:

https://twitter.com/mrwilford/status/24994038725738497

Just wait for the completely original sequel MaXineplosion. I'm gonna go play 'Splosion Man now.

This has to be a joke, but eff capcom mobile anyway, twisted pixel would do it way better.

I was really hoping none of the gaming blogs would pick up this story because I didn't want Capcom to get publicity for this.

I'm a huge Twisted Pixel fan & an even bigger 'Splosion Man fan, with numerous collectibles from their games on a shelf in my room. To see their hard work ripped off like this is terrible.

On top of all that, the video didn't even look like fun.

Bring on Ms. 'Splosion Man instead!

@Mcmax3000 - Oh & the best part about the story is that, according to Twisted Pixel's CEO, they pitched 'Splosion Man to Capcom and were turned down:

https://twitter.com/mrwilford/status/24994771051220993

@Mcmax3000

"I was really hoping none of the gaming blogs would pick up this story because I didn't want Capcom to get publicity for this."

Actually, I think this story has the opposite effect: it gave 'Splosion Man more publicity, and put the Capcom version of the game to shame. Everyone hates rip-offs, and everyone loves the underdog.

@brotherfranciz - I certainly hope that ends up being the case.

Looks like Explodemon to me!

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

i think that's the name of a digimon

I'm kind of impressed, it would take a good amount of effort to suck all the joy from splosion man.

Capcom taking a break from handing its licenses off to nobody developers who'll ruin them, condemning the rest of the licenses and claiming they don't sell enough after releasing a terrible entry on some forsaken platform, scaring off its best talents, and seeing how many games they can copy and paste Ryu into in order to ripoff someone's indie game.

Cheers.

Typical.

Just when I thought I couldn't get more impressed by this shameless ripoff, I heard the "Sonic ring collecting" sound effect! Awesome job Crapcom!!!

@Greendomo

And it sure sounds to me like he randomly says "pika" while exploding..... the first wall jump sequence for example.

Capcom Mobile have their own Twitter account if you want to start messaging them:

http://twitter.com/capcommobile

@Courtney

Way ahead of ya.

I'll show you an explosion man, I like to come on here a lot, but I usually stay on awhile.
Insert sexual innuendo here* or insert whatever.

um that's well known for capcom
there like apple
it's already out
take it
make it again put their name on it
NEW game
lot of cash

C.viper is modelled after 4 SNK characters

benimaru nikado
terry bobard
Kim Jae Hoon
Vanessa

Juri is modelled after Jhun from KOF

Abel is modelled after Clark Still again KOF

Hakkan is the only actual new character in terms of originality
Gameplay and fighting style

CRAPCOM just makes one character and then gets reskinned in a different fighting game

PROJECT JUSTICE
Ryu= forgot his name but it's the teacher with the sholder pads

@deepspacebar This is the best poetry ever.

@deepspacebar

SNK and Capcom have always had a friendly rivalry, SNK was the first one to make a dig at them with Kyo, who was a clone of the popular Ken/Ryu of the time. Capcom followed suit with Dan, and the rest is history.

@Bryan H
I think you meant Ryo, Kyo isn't all that similar to Ryu and Ken

More like 'Sploitation Man!

...

No? Fine, screw you guys.

I'll say this. It's lame, but Twisted Pixel should have tried developing an iPhone game from Splosion Man. People have shamelessly ripped off games for other platforms since the beginning of gaming.

Now, does this look any good? Who knows.

"MaXplosion gameplay video makes me sad. If you're going to outright steal a game, you should at least understand what makes it fun."

When was 'Splotion Man fun? Some parts pissed me off to no end. .___.

@motopsycho It puts the 'Splotion in the basket?

@motopsycho You never had played Super meat boy, do you...?

This looks like one of those free flash games on the Cartoon Network site.

Capcom has fallen so far this generation. This is just sad.

Splosion Man... I beat that game on Hardcore mode, I love that game... this... bastardization... needs nothing more than to die horribly. Every single time that thing giggled or chortled or WHATEVER I wanted to punch it in the face. It lacks every freaking bit of charm that Splosion Man himself has, with all of his goofy monkey running, airplane pretending, get to da choppa spouting nonsense.

CAPCOM... I used to believe in you... now look at what you have done.

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Capcom Mobile rips off 'Splosion Man for MaXplosion

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