A Potentially Controversial MMO open worldendSurvival game《The Day Before“Recently, the actual game screen was released. However, there are still doubts about the details of the film, which made players not quite pay for it. As a result, they were accused of plagiarizing the trailer of “Decisive Moment”.
“The Day Before” was originally expected to be launched in March this year, but it was reported at the end of January that the game had to be postponed to November 10 due to trademark issues. Not only that, but there was no preview of the actual machine at that time. Not only the players were worried, but the person in charge of the game Discord was also suspicious because he had not seen the actual machine.
In order to quell outside doubts, the developer Fntastic On the 3rd of this month, a 10-minute long game preview was released, plus a nearly 40-second clip of the developer’s over-the-shoulder camera on the machine. Although the player was taken to feel the game world, the HUD was completely invisible during the demonstration, which made the doubts increase instead of decrease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KgrIGUhoZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHvJkU5ILg
In addition to being questioned about the details, the first few seconds of the real machine trailer were accused by netizens of plagiarizing the zombie reveal trailer released in 2020 by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
According to the comparison by Twitter user Chroma, the arrangement of the camera movement and the character’s breakthrough in “The Day Before” contains elements of the trailer of “Black Ops Cold War” to a certain extent. For example, looking at the character through the iron railing in the third person, and the character walking forward with the gun raised while the red light hits the face.
more cause its funny pic.twitter.com/UVOX0pDQ9g
— Chroma (@Chromastone10) February 4, 2023
In addition to pointing out that “The Day Before” has a strong sense of “tribute” to the real machine this time, Chroma also dug out past promotional images for comparison, emphasizing that this is not the first time that Fntastic has the possibility of plagiarism.
The Day Before is just really sketchy idk… Like someone else replied saying “it’s just a reference” but like… there’s referencing and then there’s the fact that every piece of marketing for this game is just a direct copy of another game (these comparisons were on reddit) pic.twitter.com/OgdI4AZWhk
— Chroma (@Chromastone10) February 4, 2023
At present, the developer has not yet responded to Chroma’s allegations, and only stated that it is recovering on the day of the release of the real machine Steam page and will get the store back on the shelves as soon as possible.