Quote from: Omega1 on Apr 16, 2012, 01:18:45 PM
Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Apr 16, 2012, 12:23:03 PM
I just thought I'd quote this again...looking at the comparison picture specifically of the ME ship and the Prometheus. Aside from similar noses and paint.....those ships have NOTHING in common whatsoever.
Except that they both have a long sleek hull, two engines at each side of the main hull, pointy nose, and to top it off two slit vents at the top rear end of the hull... 
They're really quite different. In fact the Mass Effect ship is quite a poor design. It's the classic bad design of being a plane in space. The engines are fxed by a wing to the hull and the hull is really a very different shape - sleek and smooth vs the much more Nostromo like hull of Prometheus which is bristling with projections. The Prometheus has four totally different looking engines which can clearly pivot around to different directions (such as for landing in the trailers).
Seriously - if you look at the detail the two ships have nothing in common appart from being silver/grey with some yellow/black trim and numerically the same number of engines although clearly the design of the engines is totally different.
As I noted earlier in this post if you look beyond gross form the designs are quite different. The Prometheus designs are (as is often the case) much more functional. The buggy from Mass Effect for example - how do you get in that? It looks like it was designed to be sleek and have a gun on top with little concern for how people would actually get in and drive it vs the vehicle from Prometheus (which obviously has to allow actors to do so).
