Outside of the blogosphere, only a few sites bothered to review Limbo of the Lost, and most flunked it simply out of principle. Everyone marveled over the sheer laziness of it all, begging the question – how did this even come to be? Was the lead designer and art director, Steve Bovis, so deranged that he thought no one would notice? Was the whole product some kind of massive prank to swindle both the publishers and the gaming public? As of yet, no one’s quite sure – the official excuse from Majestic Studios is that the assets were outsourced, leaving the blame on this shadowy corporation they refuse to name – but ultimately the game was pulled from shelves, and most of the founders resigned in disgust and embarrassment. ![]() Upon its release, members of gaming forums the world over found endless amounts of hilarity in the blatant plagiarism, and discovering the sources for each illicitly gained asset into its own metagame. Part of the intro movie was recorded straight from the Spawn movie, where another cinema was yanked from the Pirates of the Caribbean computer game. The gargoyle on the options menu was traced from an advertisement for the movie Beetlejuice. Some of the title card backgrounds were stolen from The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth and Diablo II. One of the trailers uses music from Hexen. Some voice samples were nabbed from Thief. The list of games it steals from ranges into the dozens, including Enclave, Unreal Tournament 2004, Oblivion, Painkiller, and numerous others. These weren’t simply models or textures – it was like the graphic designer decided to load up Return to Wolfenstein, take a screenshot of a dungeon hallway, and turned that into a background. But the mainstream blogging press quickly latched onto one completely hilarious issue – a huge number of assets were plagiarized from other games. Under normal circumstances, the title would’ve been released to little fanfare, and probably ignored outside of the most devoted circles.
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