I don't think that videogames are a stable enough medium for companies to be willing to risk sizable profit margins on 'originality' yet. Probably the big draw of these movie producers (like Jackson) is that his creativity makes money. Like it or not, money is the primary motivation for these videogame companies; if it takes big name movie producers to try to encourage the big companies to be creative, than I'm all for it.
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I don't think that videogames are a stable enough medium for companies to be willing to risk sizable profit margins on 'originality' yet. Probably the big draw of these movie producers (like Jackson) is that his creativity makes money. Like it or not, money is the primary motivation for these videogame companies; if it takes big name movie producers to try to encourage the big companies to be creative, than I'm all for it.
You know, Wikipedia is ripe for a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy treatment.
Put it in a little handheld, stick an Ipod hard drive in it, give it a usb port so it can grab updates, and presto.
As for Wiki itself, "At least where it is inaccurate, it is definitively inaccurate." -Douglas Adams
Can you really copyright a particular artistic style?
It seems to me that this is more of a style infringement than an actual copying of ideas.