[Petrarch of the VBB]

Is it just me or does the Terran dropship from starcraft bear more than an uncanny resemblance to the GTB Athena from FS1? They both have a similar shaped hull, have the same anhedral tailplanes, it's frightening.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

as long as we are on this subject....did anyone else notice that the new star wars has a ship that bears an almost exact resemblance to a Union class dropship from battletech?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Yes, the bog spherical one?

BTW, this chat room you pm'd me about, how do I get to it.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

just copy and paste the link into your address bar

[StarGunner]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
as long as we are on this subject....did anyone else notice that the new star wars has a ship that bears an almost exact resemblance to a Union class dropship from battletech?

no u twit that was the ball section of a Droid control ship, look at the top of it. and the dropship thing? comon SC was made before FS1, or FS2 so theres no point to this post.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by StarGunner


no u twit that was the ball section of a Droid control ship, look at the top of it. and the dropship thing? comon SC was made before FS1, or FS2 so theres no point to this post.

SHHH!!!!  if you don't want to partake in this discussion or don't believe in it, then go away please!

he didn't make the topic "The GTB Athena copied the Starwars Dropship!!!"  this topic is to discuss resemblances between Freespace and other games (well it's evolved to that now lol)

and besides, Starcraft was released in 1998 wasn't it?  wasn't FS1 released that same year?

[aldo_14]

Great minds think alike.

[Sheepy]

any chance of some pics for anlysis?

[AqueousShadow]

Yes, the Athena and the dropship look quite similar. The Dropship just adds two fat compartments on the side for cargo.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Sheepy
any chance of some pics for anlysis?

Not really.

I thought Starcraft was 1999, anyway.

BTW, the music in Starcraft doesn't suit it at all, it sounds more like SimCity 3000.

[AqueousShadow]

So true, so true... Not to mention it's bad quality. The Protoss music was most annoying. Most people could've used the music as relaxing symphony music

[ShadowWolf_IH]

ok does anyone remember seeing a few of these on the ground in episode 2, attack of the clones?

click me

[AqueousShadow]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
ok does anyone remember seeing a few of these on the ground in episode 2, attack of the clones?

click me

Yes, in fact I do. Are those the huge ships that start trying to escape, and then they get shot down by huge missiles?

[Anaz]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
ok does anyone remember seeing a few of these on the ground in episode 2, attack of the clones?

click me

isn't that a shot from MW2:Mercs?

[Unknown Target]

and there's the clincher

[Anaz]

heh, give em a few more years, and they'll all look the same, becuase their all copying eachother...

[Solatar]

That's a droid control ship.

[Nico]

I li_ked the starcraft musics, they're cool, they're different. nobody complained about the homeworld "relaxing" musics, that's strange, no?

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Hades
That's a droid control ship.

no it's not... that round thing that got shot down with those missile batteries at the end of Episode 2 was a STARSHIP...

a droid control ship is like a three quarters of a circle with a ball in the middle.
looks like this:



they are Trade Federation Warships:

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Sheepy
any chance of some pics for anlysis?

Oh... and did anyone notice that that star wars creature (green, made a screeching noise in the arena that was after Obi-Wan) was an exact copy of the Zerg Lurker?

don't believe me?  check this out:

http://www.blizzard.com/broodwar/units/lurker.shtml