Max Payne 3 - lol read this

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Did you know that "bullet time" is a term copyrighted and owned by Warner Bros.? It was news to me when I went looking up the term this morning, searching for a way to contextualize the evolution of Max Payne that I experienced when playing Rockstar's Max Payne 3 recently. According to Wikipedia -- which totally has its own listing for the term, of course -- the "word" was copyrighted alongside the first Matrix film. That film came out in 1999, two years before Remedy would reappropriate the concept for its first Max Payne game.

No similarly bizarre history can be applied to the term "shootdodge," the portmanteau a Rockstar rep used to describe "Max's classic dive move." In Max Payne 3, the maneuver plays as crucial a role as ever. The majority of the time during my demo I spent with Max leaping in slow motion, or shooting in slow motion, or shooting and leaping in slow motion, all the while desperately trying to shoot dudes in their domes. Yes, fans, bullet time is still here, ready for use in tandem with the newly minted "shootdodge."


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Lol never knew a term like; 'bullet time', can be copyrighted!! :D
 
Cue each and every one of us who plays the game - and all of the publications/websites' reviewers who review it - calling it "bullet-time" and not really caring about Warner Bros' copyright :D
 
Random Guy said:
Cue each and every one of us who plays the game - and all of the publications/websites' reviewers who review it - calling it "bullet-time" and not really caring about Warner Bros' copyright :D
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You misunderstand.

It would not be breach of copyright to use the term bullet time in reference to a max payne game, its when you use it in reference to a game that isnt max payne that has that...bullet slowing down thing.
 
Eames said:
You misunderstand.

It would not be breach of copyright to use the term bullet time in reference to a max payne game, its when you use it in reference to a game that isnt max payne that has that...bullet slowing down thing.
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Yes it would. The copyright for "bullet time" is held in relation to the popular cinematographic production "The Matrix" rather than the video game "Max Payne"
 
The additional bumph that came with the DVD had a mini-documentary on it, not surprised they trademarked the phrase :

 
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Eames said:
You misunderstand.

It would not be breach of copyright to use the term bullet time in reference to a max payne game, its when you use it in reference to a game that isnt max payne that has that...bullet slowing down thing.
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Pretty much what Haggisman said, afaik.

Eames, hasn't your name been copyrighted by the makers of "Inception" yet? :D
 
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