Liscencing issues or not, it all comes down to this: Laziness
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Don't listen to anyone, just play the game. It's a blast with four players. No, it's not No Mercy, but if you want to play No Mercy, you can find it anywhere for around 15 bucks. The lack of certain themes and backstage areas really takes nothing away from the game. It's fun in the ring, where it counts, and the first time you reverse a Stunner, you'll be in heaven.
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NO MERCY
so wait, this means I can take a CD with some classical music on it and put it in a game or film and not worry about getting sued or anything...?Originally posted by TobalRox
Classical music is all PD because it was written before copyrights. you'll notice that flair's music was also used in 2001 (the most widely known existance of that song).
R.I.P. 1936
Yeah, but who performed the classic music? It didn't play itself. So, it isn't quite as simple as with PD literature.
It sucks though. A hundred years from now pop albums from today probably WON'T be public domain. Not that I care about shitty top 40 music, but that's bogus. Another debate, and another thread, in another forum.
Droppin' a Duece
Musical copyrights expire isn't something like 5 years after the death of the artist?
Finished Games of '09
nothing at this time
Ex-Hardcore Gamer
Well, if YOU performed it, then you could not get sued, but the people who made that CD, since their hard work went into performing it, could sue you.Originally posted by DHG Otaku
so wait, this means I can take a CD with some classical music on it and put it in a game or film and not worry about getting sued or anything...?
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"It's all in the reflexes"
First of all this game kicks ass. I've only played it in 4 player mode but that's the only way these games are good anyway. I had just as much fun with this game as I did with No Mercy/WM2k. I don't think it plays much like Smackdown at all. It has a control scheme similar to No mercy but not exact. I say play it before you give up on it. As for there being no blood, I think the ESRB recently made it so any game with blood in it is rated M. As for the music copyright laws, I have that info if anyone really wants it, I'll have to dig it up though. Bottom line is if you like the older games give this game a chance. It sure as hell is 50 times better then that abortion on the XBOX. If you ask me these games were made with the multiplayer in mind and in that respect it passes with flying colors. I almost pissed myself from laughing during our 4 way ladder match that lasted about an hour.
Um Legends of Wrestling?? The Gamecube version has lots of blood and came out a week or two ago....Originally posted by Nigel-The-Landstalker
As for there being no blood, I think the ESRB recently made it so any game with blood in it is rated M.
"It's all in the reflexes"
Did you notice the "I think" in there? I'm not sure if that's the case or not. I did hear that though. I think it sucks ass. I want blood in my wrestling games!Originally posted by wEEman33
Um Legends of Wrestling?? The Gamecube version has lots of blood and came out a week or two ago....
Marvel The Great
Especially considering that Trish, Tajiri, Hardyz, etc. all had their music in RAW and SD which both came out mere months ago.
All those songs are Stock Music that you'll hear at hockey, basketball, football, and baseball games. You'll also hear it on stations like ESPN as well. THQ would have to pay everytime to put it in the game. Maybe they didn't close a deal to get the music before the release date and didn't want to delay the game over music or maybe they were playing hardball with THQ so THQ decided to just go ahead and put something else in instead of throwing all this money at them just for music.
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