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Real World Weapons - How to avoid legal issues?

El Barto · 2002-08-18T08:06:02

Realistic games seem to be all the rage these days...every game you see is chok full of MP5 and M4A1 goodness. But the question is, how do these games legally use such weapons? I''m currently producing a game which plans on using real world weapons and vehicles but I would like to do so without having H&K pounding on my door. I know that Counter-Strike the mod uses the real names, while the retail version uses fake names...but the fact remains that the weapons with the fake names are obvious exact replicas of their real-world counterparts. Isn''t this just as illegal? If anyone could shed some light on this subject, I''d very much appreciate it.

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Started by El Barto August 14, 2002 12:30 AM

11 comments, last by El Barto 21 years, 10 months ago

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122

August 17, 2002 04:43 PM

Red Storm merely had large pockets. America''s Army was made by, you guessed it, the Army. And they used their own types of guns, made for the Army.

Sqeek.

Anonymous

August 17, 2002 11:10 PM

You know.. this is one place where the game industry has managed to do everything half ass backwords. In hollywood they''d be charging for all that advertising. Product placement. That''s what it is. :-)

LordKronos

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August 18, 2002 08:06 AM

Product placement has already been tried, and for the most part it usually isn''t effective enough.

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