David Jaffe on the Rampage

David Jaffe, the creator of God of War and the Twisted Metal series on Sony's Playstation took to his blog and vented some frustration towards Microsoft's Scrap Metal game and the upcoming movie called War of Gods.  According to him both the game and the movie are rips of Twisted Metal and God of War and believes that Sony should be doing something about the matter.

“Sony should [sue] or if I owned the rights to TWISTED METAL and GOD OF WAR, I sure as hell would at the least send a sternly worded legal letter.  Heck, I’d send two legal letters if it were me.

I mean, first Microsoft puts out a car combat game and calls it SCRAP METAL? Hey, looks like a great game! Right up my alley! Day one purchase for me. But come on guys, isn’t that just a little too close to Sony’s own car combat game TWISTED METAL?

And then Sony has GOD OF WAR, a game and potential movie about mortals fighting ancient Greek Gods. And then this movie gets announced called WAR OF THE GODS about- yep!- mortals fighting ancient Greek Gods.

And look: Sony doesn’t- and should not- own the concept of the Greek Myths. Nor should they own the idea of mortal fighting ancient Gods, Greek or any other kind. That’s all public domain stuff. But the TITLE? Sony DOES own that. And GOD OF WAR/WAR OF THE GODS seem a little too close to comfort ya’ll.

Anyway, like I said, not my fight. I don’t own shit!"

He has since updated his blog regarding his rant and it's full of more colorful language and an image of Chris Rock.

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