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The logo says it's called Rise of the Kings and is apparently available on app stores everywhere. It wasn't until scrolling down that I realized I was looking at yet another trashy mobile game that blatantly rips off other people's artwork.
The offending artwork has clearly taken creative liberties with the design of its not-Geralt, mimicking actual art from The Witcher 3 while using the armor from the Netflix series. Dare I say, this swordsman's face is even meant to mimic the impeccable Henry Cavill, a slight that PC Gamer cannot abide by.
This Gerald of Riverboat ad is apparently promoting a Rise of the Kings update that's been out for months, but it only recently caught the eye of r/Gaming. Commentators are having a laugh at the ad's expense with some quality zingers. "Including everybody's favourite card game, Qwert!" wrote drewtheblueduck. "His trusty steed, Coach," added 8bit4brains.
Mobile ripoffs are so common at this point that it feels like a better use of our time to simply laugh them off than complain about them to an internet void. That said, if you'll allow me to be annoyed by an already well-known problem outside of my control, it is absurd that these ripoffs continue to make money on major app stores.
For how much platforms like the Apple App Store pride themselves on vetting apps, theft is depressingly common. This update has been out since March! And Rise of the Kings isn't some random sidebar ad game either. It has over 10 million downloads on the Google Play store alone, a stat I pulled from the game's store page that currently autoplays a trailer starring fake Geralt.
It'd be nice to see these shady games get a long, costly timeout from storefronts when they do a theft, but considering Apple and Google automatically pocket up to 30% of everything Rise of the Kings makes, there isn't a particularly strong incentive.
Perhaps the almost-Geralt here is something CD Projekt doesn't feel it's worth going after, or isn't close enough to be cut-and-dry copyright infringement. If so, is it weird that these sorts of shady mobile games don't take off in the same way on Steam? Valve's hands-off publishing rules seem like a prime breeding ground for IP theft (and that certainly does happen), but games that do so don't seem to attract 10 million players over six years. Maybe that's because a lot of the time, trashy steam knockoffs are clearly more joke than business strategy.
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Die Hard was a highly successful film. Released wide on July 22, 1988, and despite competing with the likes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Coming to America, it managed to spend ten weeks inside the box office top five. It became the tenth-highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide, grossing approximately $140 million (about $315 million today).
Its success spawned an entire subgenre of action films, typically referred to as "Die Hard on a...". These were mostly terrible affairs, as studios rushed together subpar films to make a quick buck. But some of them were actually very good, offering the Die Hard formula in various unique places. These are ten Die Hard ripoffs (that are actually pretty good).
Seagal is typically remembered for his cheesy action movies, but Under Siege remains one of his best - and one well worth watching and enjoying sincerely. In fact, it was this movie that inspired Harrison Ford to approve director Andrew Davis for The Fugitive.
"Die Hard On A Mountain" sounds positively outrageous. And it is. But it's also very entertaining. There's a lot of talent behind Cliffhanger, including star Sylvester Stallone and director Renny Harlin (who, perhaps not coincidentally, directed Die Hard 2).
It's a very well made and well produced movie - so much so that it was actually nominated for three technical Academy Awards and is credited for reviving Stallone's post-Rocky career. Unfortunately, it competed against Jurassic Park at the box office.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is another one of those actors who, like Steven Seagal, is more popular and well known than the actual movies he stars in. However, Sudden Death is one of his better ones, even though it's one of the most blatant ripoffs of Die Hard featured here.
It too revolves around fighting terrorists holding people hostage, but instead of an office building it's a stadium. Instead of a cop, Sudden Death stars a fireman. Still, the action set pieces are fantastic, especially the one where Van Damme beats up a mascot.
In a few words, The Rock is "Die Hard On Alcatraz" (or "Die Hard In A Prison" to some), and it is every bit as thrilling as that sounds. It is arguably Michael Bay's finest movie, as it forgoes his typical bombastic jingoistic spectacle in favor of a more grounded and nuanced story that can double as a critique on political and military matters.
It boasts a thrilling cast (including Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery) and a unique setting, and Ed Harris's General Frank Hummel remains one of the greatest and most sympathetic villains in movie history.
Executive Decision is Die Hard on a plane, and like The Rock, it gets by on a stellar cast. The movie stars the likes of Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, and John Leguizamo, and it concerns terrorists aboard a 747 flying from Athens to Washington.
Let's be honest: Air Force One is absolutely ludicrous, but sometimes viewer want a little ludicrous with their films. It stars Harrison Ford as President James Marshall, who must battle terrorists aboard the presidential airplane Air Force One.
Gary Oldman plays bad guy Egor Korshunov, a terrorist with reservations about the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's pure escapism, led by a terrific cast and some wonderfully tense action sequences.
It's reminiscent of the one-two Armageddon-Deep Impact punch of the following year, but unlike that case, both of these movies are actually good. Con Air is another Nicolas Cage-led winner, produced by action movie guru Jerry Bruckheimer. Viewers can't go wrong with a talented cast of this magnitude.
Speaking of one-two punches, 2013 saw its own iteration in the White House-terrorist-themed action films White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. Both are essentially just "Die Hard In The White House," but White House Down was both more popular and better received compared to its grittier and more violent counterpart.
Snakes on a Plane is fully aware of how goofy it is and by leaning into its own ridiculousness, it comes out all the better. The movie stars Samuel l. Jackson (who also starred in Die Hard with a Vengeance) as FBI agent Neville Flynn, who must protect the riders of an airplane against a host of deadly snakes.
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