Sony aren't kidding, that trailer literally looks like Horizon down to the small details. It's not even funny how 1-to-1 it is.

SIE further alleged that Tencent came to the company with a pitch to license the Horizon IP, to which SIE declined.

This seems very relevant to the lawsuit.

What did they do, decide to develop a Horizon game in-house, then ask for permission retroactively, and then release it anyway when Sony didn't agree?

I went to the game's website to see how they portrayed the game as opposed to taking whatever cherry-picked similarities Sony chose to use as their argument.

Wow. It is fucking identical. Maybe the gameplay is different, but the art is indistinguishable.

There's got to be irony somewhere in Sony striking a deal with Palworld, then suing another company for copying the art of their game.

Same:

• Music
• Art style of the creatures and environments
• Overall concept and ideas, generally, it seems

Different:

• Character design, a little thinner, more Asian game looking. People who are anime/hentai thin and are performing physical feats they shouldn't be expected to be able to do. Less texture and detail to the faces and such. More smooth, gen AI look and feel. Less/cheaper work behind it I'm assuming.
• Traveling, actually looks fun as hell compared to the Horizon games. Riding many more animals of different types and in/through different media, like water.
• Fighting gameplay, looks like absolute ass, bro. Same old ground-based regurgitated melee style fighting you find in every single Chinese game with fighting in it. Looks so boring. Move in, hit, move out. Repeat until finished. I sleep.
• Maybe able to clone beings you have destroyed? I dunno. Could be cool if that's what I saw.

I low key would want to play through this in an any% kind of way. Just to see if it's fun. But the battle sequences did not sell this well, I have to say.

Good luck to all.

I saw the trailer for that game and laughed my ass off, i legit thought it was a horizon DLC and when I realized it wasn't, I couldn’t get past the obvious fact that it’s a straight ripoff that barely changed anything

SIE further alleged that Tencent came to the company with a pitch to license the Horizon IP, to which SIE declined.

If sony has physical proof of this, Tencent is fucked and this game will never be released

Yeah, I gotta go with Sony on this and holy shit that is horizon zero dawn all the way!

It does look like a clone, but fuck IP law. Sony winning this will only hurt games because any publisher with a genre creating / defining game could gatekeep any competitors from coming in *cough Nintendo.

The original horizon came out 8 years ago, that's plenty of time for them to cash in on the monopoly they get for all the creativity that went into creating the genre / style.

Its not like they're marketing it with a similar name or main character or any other identifier that could trick someone into buying it instead either.

Do they have a case? As long as Tencent isn't actively copying Horizon beyond an aesthetic, are they infringing on anything?

if they dont't market it as something related to horizon then what's the issue? we have millions of clones of various games with different graphics, and so what?

imagine spending all that dev time to just get shredded. bruh

A game does not sell just because of art or the IP. So I like that there is competition. Would suck for Sony if the copy had better code quality, a better story, more content than their games at half the price.

Uhh the game looks awesome from what the trailer shows. I want to play it, and I’m already hyped for it. The combat also looks better than what it was in Horizon 1.

I honestly don’t care if they just copy games like this. I’m too tired of awesome concepts & IPs being completely misused & wasted by game publishers.

I’m hoping Tencent wins this one, because I wanna play the game. If they do win, I bet “Monster Hunter x Horizon + conventionally attractive characters” would sell like hotcakes.