Sega Goes Crazy, Sues Fox, EA Over Taxi

Posted by simoniker on Thursday December 4, 2003 @07:32PM from the crazy-damages dept.

Thanks to Reuters for the news that Sega has sued Fox, EA, and developers Radical Entertainment over the similarity between EA's The Simpsons Road Rage and Sega's own Crazy Taxi. The story reveals: "Sega holds a U.S. patent, known as the '138 patent, on 'Crazy Taxi,' in which players take the role of a taxi driver who has to accomplish outrageous driving stunts to pick up passengers and quickly deliver them to their destinations." The patent infringement suit, which asks for the recall of the game and damages for lost profits, claims The Simpsons Road Rage was designed to "deliberately copy and imitate", citing a review "...that characterized 'Road Rage' as a 'shameless incident of design burglary'."

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Thank God by SirDrinksAlot · 2003-12-05 02:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Simpsons Road Rage is such a poorly made game I think it could only be a good thing to have it pulled from the shelves.

They cut so many corners on the game which could have made it rather nice but in the end it feels completely unpolished.

Its like a manager walked up, saw a version in early development and decided its ready to go onto debugging. Its missing so much in terms of refinement like little animations and visual effects.

The entire game feels awkward.

I'm with Sony. Pull it from the shelves!