Super Clone Box: ‘Insane Zombie Carnage’ Looks Very Familiar

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April 24th, 2012 | By

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Insane Zombie Carnage

A new game called Insane Zombie Carnage is coming to PC and XBLIG and even at the very first glance you can tell that this is a clone of Super Crate Box. Sigh.

To a point, we’re indifferent to clones appearing of popular games – it’s been happening for years and will likely never stop. However, if you do make a clone of a game it’s probably a good idea to at least try and hide it. Better yet – improve or add to that experience. Insane Zombie Carnage has you controlling an avatar in a static screen, shooting zombies that fall from the top of the screen and head towards the bottom. The level design is near identical to Vlambeer’s Super Crate Box, as well as the gameplay of course and you even collect crates to get new weaponry.

About the only creative thing in this game are the zombies and, well, since when has including zombies in your game been creative – maybe 2006 at a push? This isn’t the first game that developers Playberries have cloned either. Like we said, there’s a degree to which clones are allowed to exist but straight rip offs like this are non-creative and exist purely to cash in on someone else’s efforts.

If you need more convincing that is a cash-in clone, just check out the trailer:

If you’re interested in Insane Zombie Carnage, allow us to point you towards Super Crate Box instead – go play it, it’s a super fun game.

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  • http://twitter.com/BigDaveisCheap Big Dave

    Thanks for bringing this to my intention. I’ll post a tidbit from my comment I posted on their Desura page that I think adds an additional wrinkle to the story:

    “The real problem for this developer isn’t simply that they blatantly stole the gameplay style of Super Crate Box, a heinous enough offense on its own, but that in addition to that Vlambeer was JUST the subject of another very public cloning incident surrounding their game Radical Fishing. Essentially you are kicking Vlambeer while they are down, you came across them lying on the sidewalk crumpled and bleeding and you stomped on their head. You REALLY picked the wrong developer to clone at the absolute worst possible time.”

    I agree with you 100% that cloning is going to happen but damn at least do more than put a simple coat of paint on it. The developer is now saying they are going to release a free version of the game and add co-op, the latter of which actually sounds appealing. I mean I would probably have possibly forgave them the cloning if they had launched with co-op. “It’s like Super Crate Box but with co-op” would have been the lead of every story about the game instead of “SCB clone clones SCB” as it is now.

    To Cloners: Take a page out of the book of Roxio and don’t just clone a game but instead put in the work to make it your own.

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