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You lost me OP when you started saying the the two sides' own units looked the same. Zerg have more angular and sharper edgges and have recognizable anatomy and physiology and look cooler; Flood look more like an abomination of nature, seemingly composed of millions of tumors.
In fact, since WH40K's Space Marine game started coming out, I've been doing research on the WH40K universe a lot lately and its actually hilarious how much Blizzard's Zerg look like Game Workshop's Tyranids.
But as others have already told you, all Sci-Fi work off of each other. First it was simply stuff like hand held lazer beams, and later it was entire races. Though I think we all owe Star Trek; they kind of were the very first big space adventure with a plethora of races and ideas.
Posted by: CanineThewolvie
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Alright, before you guys dismiss this just hear me out. Ok for starters Starcraft came out in 1998 and Halo came out in 2001 so plenty of time to copy, obviously Starcraft was a popular game at the time and a big target for copiers. Alright lets start with the races, zerg=flood, protoss=covenant, terran=UNSC. Alright this doesn't nessesarily mean that they copied, but it does serve as a basis. Next, the both the zerg and the flood have an overmind like thing, the zerg's being called the overmind and the flood's being the gravemind. Next, the both mutate and the flood have a small unit that are fast and can over run you if there are too many just like the zerglins, they also happen to look exactly the same. Also is I don't think it is a coincidence that the flood's mobile flying units looks exactly and acts exactly like mutalisks. Ok now for the protoss they both have a weird mystical religion that I don't know much about but they are exactly the same. Next the Terran and the UNSC I won't bag on much just because well they are both human and basically every game ever has humans but don't banshees and hornets look rather similar as well as helions and choppers? Coicidence? Maybe. Well the UNSC space shuttles look the same as the battlecruisers, but then the Starwars cruisers look pretty much the same too so that doesn't really count. Well, I just thought I would share this with you guys. Please post if you guys feel the same as I do or if I am just retarded.
I always see some similarities with both universe, and i'm sure Bungie was influenced by the Star Craft universe we can't deny Protoss-Convenant (or Shangheili precisently look the same physically and spiritualy) but there's some other references for Halo like :The Ring world by Larry Niven or Starship Troopers, Aliens and many more... The thing is Bungie built this universe in their own way and now Halo can stand beside Sci-Fi universe Veteran without problems.
I remember reading somewhere that Bungie didn't make a conscious effort to take the Ringworld idea from Niven, but rather wanted an artificial world that looked both cool and would also work. A ring just happened to fit that criteria.
halo copied nothing it is its own universe. end of thread
Please tell me that was sarcasm. Any self-respecting Halo fan knows Aliens was a huge source of inspiration.
[Edited on 06.25.2011 7:44 AM PDT]