April 2, 2007 – StuffWeLike

Guitar Hero 2-360 edition

Tomorrow(and today at some select Circuit Cities) Guitar Hero 2 for the 360 comes out. 10 extra songs, a new Gibson guitar, downloadable content and HD quality gaming. That’s all great, right? No? What do you say it could use? Online gameplay? Okay yeah, it could use that, but for now we get a kick ass commercial.

I was watching The Riches and a commercial came on. All the sudden I saw a cartoony commercial pop up. A meteor was head towards earth and a guy standing on top of a van holding an Explorer started rocking out. A girl holding another guitar pops up out of now where and rocks out more. They’re rocking out, electricity coming out of their guitars, attacking the Meteor. It crumbles, and the guy grabs the meteor, they continue rocking using the meteor as a pick as Mother starts blaring. The commercial mixes Jamie Hewlett’s art style, and a music video reminiscent of Tencious D.

Hopefully David’ll have the video up in the media player under Video Game Commercials in the Pipeline. I suggest you watch it.

Hitman The Movie – Now in Production

20th Century Fox appears to be the studio behind it. Check out the fulll press release in The Pipeline under the News section!

God I love video game based movies! It’ll be interesting to see how this one turns out. As long as it’s better than BloodRayne we have a winner!

Here’s an excerpt:
The game’s story centers around an international assassin known only as Agent 47 (Olyphant) who works for a mysterious organization dubbed the Agency. The Hitman videogames have sold in excess of 6 million units worldwide, with the most recent instalment, Hitman: Blood Money selling 1.4 million units worldwide and reaching No.1 in all key territories.

The movie is being directed by Xavier Gens from a screenplay by Skip Woods (Swordfish) and produced by Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Adrian Askarieh and Charles Gordon with Daniel Alter as a co-producer.

Get Ready To Rock….

And play the bass. And the drums. And oh yeah, you can sing now, too. By now, anyone who is anyone should have learned that the newest game from the Guitar Hero makers, Harmonix, is going to be Rock Band and will include playing the guitar, the bass, the drums, and singing. Sounds pretty awesome, right? Hopefully you won’t have to pay an arm and a leg for all of the peripherals but considering that these are the guys that brought us Guitar Hero, I think they will find a way.

Singing rabbits and crying babies.

I was watching Rat Race on Comedy Central, good movie, not the point. During a break they showed a commercial about a guy trading a singing rabbit for some skittles. I’m wondering to myself “WHY?!” I’m a child of the 80s, a decade when not much was normal either way, but I do remember when I was growing up that we did, at one point, have normal commercials. Now we have commercials that don’t even have to do the product itself. Singing Rabbits, Crying plastic babies(PS3 commercial), and a Fu-Manchu type character saying something I cannot remember at this time. WHY?!

Show a funny situation with your product. Kick someone in the nuts then pour Doritos on him, not that difficult. Forgo the prosthetics, and the animatronics. Just give us something to laugh at. something that looks really good, or even a hot chick using the product. We don’t need these inane commercials that barely make sense. Hell, I’ve even avoided eating at Quiznos for years because of those damn Spongemonkies commercials they used to run.

We don’t need crying babies and singing rabbits.