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Clone Wars: Episode 1 - five obvious homages on iPhone and iPad

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Clone Wars: Episode 1 - five obvious homages on iPhone and iPad
By Anthony Usher
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Eagle-eyed observers of the iOS App Store will have noticed a few trends emerging on Apple's mobile platform of late.

Freemium games, titles with in-app purchases, auto-running platformers, and physics-led puzzlers: not a day seems to go by without a new entry in these over-saturated fields popping up on the App Store.

And then there's the Rise of the Clone. Unscrupulous iPhone and iPad developers have been borrowing game ideas and concepts like they're going out of fashion recently. You can say these studios have been "inspired" by previous games, or you can call them "rip-offs" - it's up to you.

Clone Wars is a regular(ish) video series where we look at five obvious homages on the App Store, and put the original and the copycat games side by side so you can make the final decision.

We await your judgement:

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Anthony Usher
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Anthony is a Liverpool, UK-based writer who fell in love with gaming while playing Super Mario World on his SNES back in the early '90s. When he isn't busy grooming his beard, you can find him replaying Resident Evil or Final Fantasy VII for the umpteenth time. Aside from gaming, Anthony likes hiking, MMA, and pretending he’s a Viking.