its kinda stupid to convert. you are not gonna gain any signal quality by going to hdmi from vga, and you might lose some in the conversion.
dvi/hdmi are only good because you stay digital the entire time.
its not a rip-off of it, it was built on the same engine. lucas arts has done the same thing a few times with other games. bf1 was just one of the more popular ones.
it was seen at blizzcon. they suck in life from enemies and convert it to mana or energy or rage. plus they can dump all these life sucks to an aoe silence.
WTFOVERPOWERED