Sentences with phrase «obvious inspiration»

Sometimes a property aligns too close to its most obvious inspiration.

Hugh Grant as The Pirate Captain: Grant channels his flamboyance into a very likable voice - acting role, this one taking obvious inspiration from how John Cleese generally talks.

Taking obvious inspiration from titles such as Modern Warfare and Counter-strike, the game manages to take many of the better qualities of current online shooters and combine them to make a decent shooter in its own right, but in doing so, it also fails to bring anything new to the table.

Judging by the teaser image (above), it'll look cracking — a long sweeping grand tourer with obvious inspiration from the Aeromax and SuperSports.

From a design perspective, the S8 and the larger S8 + share their aesthetic direction with last year's S7, with Samsung opting to stick with a smudge attracting, curved gorilla glass design, though it's obvious inspiration also stems from the ill - fated Note 7.

It takes obvious inspiration from classic titles such as Micro Machines with tracks made of everyday household items set across different rooms within a house.

Facebook launched Stories earlier this year, with obvious inspiration from Snapchat's feature by the same name.

By placing the Mario characters in an unfamiliar setting (taking obvious inspiration from XCOM), crafting a surprisingly deep battle system, and finally giving the Rabbids the quality title they were so desperately in need of, and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle proved to be a most pleasant surprise.

The Xbox One exclusive from indie team Playdead looked to draw obvious inspiration from the studio's previous game, Limbo; Playdead began work on Inside just after Limbo's 2010 release.

mea culpa trapdoor that Jon Stewart — otherwise an obvious inspiration — often used.

Irv Zuckerman, one of the founders of PizzaRev, which just opened a second location in California and plans on expanding to between 5 and 15 spots in 2013, told Nation's Restaurant News that Chipotle was an obvious inspiration.

My obvious inspiration for these was the real thing, and I looked to my favorite carrot cake recipe to create this one.

The Amazing Spider - Man tries very hard to emulate Batman Arkham City, but despite solid controls, especially the well - designed Web Rush, and a good amount of single - player gameplay, the open - world concept doesn't offer much else in the form of any kind of really challenging gameplay and engaging side - mission variety as its obvious inspiration, the award - winning Batman Arkham City.

Mr. Shifty is an action game that takes some obvious inspiration from superhero comics, yet has you playing as a person with one of the worst superpowers ever.

Quentin Tarantino is one of McDonagh's obvious inspirations, and like one of that genre master's films, Psychopaths has a complex momentum that drives a hard - charging story forward while also taking time for a few giddy diversions.

Less relentlessly bleak than Winter's Bone, which along with Frozen River is an obvious inspiration here, the life - on - the - margins drama makes a fine, tense vehicle for Tessa Thompson, who in the last few years has stood out in a variety of genres.

He and the movie in general are an obvious inspiration for Scorsese's Raging Bull.

That and the relative resurgence of altered fairy tales in pop culture is the obvious inspiration for Maleficent, Disney's latest live action movie that defines «unnecessary».

If we are to compare this to its obvious inspiration, Harry Potter, Lerman does a better job that Daniel Radcliffe ever did.

Set in an all - too - plausible vision of the near future, Logan is so unrelenting it makes its obvious inspiration, Children of Men, look downright cheery in comparison.

Gauntlet is an obvious inspiration but we wanted to reimagine that style of play in a single player experience, one that gives you all the characters and abilities at once.

When I first heard about Stardew Valley, I was reasonably certain that it would be an utterly hateful imitation of its obvious inspiration: the Harvest Moon series.

The movie reminded me of Abel Ferrara's vampire nightmare The Addiction (1995), as well as John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), which is an obvious inspiration, with its clamorous synth score.

Submitted for your approval, the Rolf family: patriarch Ben (Reed), matriarch Marion (Black), irritating moppet David (Lee Montgomery, the obvious inspiration for Giovanni Frezza's appalling performance in The House by the Cemetery), and Aunt Elizabeth (Davis).

Taking obvious inspiration from the Honda Civic's early days, the Urban EV Concept would look as much at home on the side of a street as it would at your local cars and coffee.

«The GLE, like its obvious inspiration, the BMW X6, is an answer to a question that never has been.

So he was an obvious inspiration for Donnelly.

It has obvious inspirations from the Super Mario series (what the hell platformer doesn't?)

There is some obvious inspiration taken from Limbo, with the title featuring predominantly black and white graphics.

Despite its obvious inspirations, Dead Space had become its own thing.

While old movies and shmups were the obvious inspirations, there's also a definite element of Monster Hunter in Earth Atlantis as well.

Gauntlet is an obvious inspiration but we wanted to reimagine that style of play in a single player experience, one that gives you all the characters and abilities at once.

(The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is an obvious inspiration.)

I think Lemma holds its own against much larger games made by much larger teams, like its obvious inspiration Mirror's Edge.

We pointed out the similarities in an article earlier this month, and following the release of yesterday's teaser, Deus Ex: Human Revolution developers have taken a few tongue - in - cheek digs at Treyarch for their obvious inspirations.

Star Wars was an obvious inspiration for the look and feel — the desert world Sand Ocean even recreates a joke from The Phantom Menace, where ghastly looking alien creatures are consumed by even larger monstrosities when passing by them in the next round, and one of the new planets is basically Endor from Return of the Jedi.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is the obvious inspiration, but not even a fraction of that film's spirit is captured in Deadfall Adventures.

The little Flash game, Indie Jones, takes some obvious inspiration from Indiana Jones and the opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring a fedora - wearing adventurer snatching up gems as he runs away from a giant, incoming boulder.

I Am Setsuna is a JRPG that brings back the classic vibe of the 90s, with Chrono Trigger being an obvious inspiration.

Curiously, Okami's obvious inspiration, the Legend of Zelda series, adapted to Nintendo's touch - screen handheld in a far more innovative way.

And while comparing the game with the excellent Limbo and Inside is paying it a huge compliment, it's also doing it a great disservice as it has its own unique charm and actually improves on its obvious inspirations in a number of ways.

With obvious inspiration from the kings of the genre; Resident Evil and Silent Hill, each of the One Night games were creepy and managed to unnerve you.

If this all sounds a bit like Left 4 Dead, that's because it's an obvious inspiration.

While it seems like a Diablo clone at first glance, Haemimont Games» indie action - RPG Victor Vran set itself apart from its obvious inspiration with its own unique gameplay aspects.

Taking obvious inspiration from blockbuster titles like Halo and Call of Duty, the latest instalment in the Call of Mini series plonks you right in the middle of a planet ending battle.

The obvious inspiration for last year's Google Home was the Amazon Echo, and it's just as obvious that the new Google Home Mini is taking cues from the Echo Dot.

As far as the design language is concerned, the NUU Mobile Z8 doesn't stray too far from the standard, offering a familiar look and feel, albeit without an obvious inspiration.