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Halo - Warthog Cloned, Red Vs Blue DVD-ed
Thanks to Eurogamer for their news item highlighting the similarities between Peugeot's new Hoggar concept car and Halo's Warthog buggy. The article's tongue-in-cheek disclaimer argues: "We feel sure that any similarity is entirely coincidental", and the likeness was originally brought to light by Halo machinima crew Red Vs. Blue, who have also just released the Season 1 DVD for their much-lauded machinima series, including "all episodes, PSAs, extra videos, outtakes, easter eggs and a directors commentary" - the basic episodes are also still freely downloadable in DivX/Quicktime formats for interested parties.
These days a game can be in production for as long as a movie. Do I hear cries of "Duke Nukem Forever"? Halo, if I remember, had quite a long production period.
And as we know, Star Trek has ripped off alot of ideas from technology. Look at sliding doors - we have them and Star Trek stole them! We have scientists working on teleportation - and Star Trek put that in their movies and series!
Rip-off merchants, I tells ya!!!
Halo had a buggy that resembled the final version (and the Nemesis version) in 1999, and had been in development for a year or two.
...it looks more like a Puma.