For those who don't know this isn't really a game trailer but a viral marketing scheme.


So when does it go too far and is just going over the edge; another example of this was people protesting Dantes inferno which again was another marketing ploy... I remember this faintly but there was a youtube banner saying that korea invades usa but when you clicked on it you realise it was a game. But when i saw it was genuinely scared.



So whats your thoughts?

Personally I believe it to be way too over the top. Right now Capcom (Or at least the company helping them make Operation Raccoon City) has been using the internet in their viral marketing scheme, but with intention that many Resident Evil players enjoy, taking down the Umbrella Corporation. The website itself is http://insertedevil.com .

http://www.raccooncitysewersdepartment.com/
http://www.raccooncityartgallery.com/

Both of these, and probably more to come, are part of their clue based puzzle solving, but subliminal advertising while giving prizes out, ad campaign, which actually grips my attention. At the end of every clue you end up with other sites filled with bios and other information and lore on the up coming game.

http://birkinfiles.com for example, or the ipaddress that leads to character bios of the Umbrella task force sent into raccoon after the T-Virus incident.



In the tattoo, you can see the Umbrella Corp. logo on the wolfs head, and a number after the word RIP. Well take out R and suddenly HAY YOU GOT AN IP ADDRESS.

Point is, this is fun and interactive advertisement, while the other is playing on the fact that there are cruel and odd people in the world that actually WOULD play that game, and only wants to get their attention and say that it was and still is wrong.

inb4 DM is a zombie fanatic

Also The Game

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I would play this game, looks good. Very edgy.


This information is relevant to my interests

And wtf, I lost when I quoted you Well played.

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VIRAL I TELL YOU!

I remember the halo clue fest was pretty epic; similar to inserted evil.

I saw worse then that game, have you heard of Super Columbine Shooting RPG?

Story: Some jackass decided to think shooting up a high school was going to be fun.
So he made a game about shooting the people in the high school.
http://www.columbinegame.com/
No, I'm fucking serious, they actually made a game about this.

Have you actually played it? If I remember correctly, the point of the game was not to glorify the incident at all, but instead to mock what people thought was going on and really show people how dumb the spin was on it. For example, you can find Marilyn Manson things that boost your desire to kill; a reference to how everyone was blaming his "devil music" as the reason why they wanted to kill people. Is it tasteless? Perhaps. But I understand why the guy made it. It wasn't as well done or as sensitive as the "Bowling for Columbine" documentary, but it was trying to make a similar point ultimately.

Lol i remember there was a old very crappy game which was basically you as work camp owner... Wait it gets worst; Its a nazi work camp. Basically you try to profit from the workers and you have to kill workers sometimes to make the german people happy.

Man, this game looks wicked, when's it coming out?

I wouldn't think I'd have to spell it out that was just a joke, but I know damn well that at least three people were going to miss it. And hold on a second, didn't a game about slavery already come out already? I thought we called it Tropico 2 back when it came out.

Well its less of slavery as it is "Stockholm syndrome" where a captive person(s) relates to their captor.

I have this game on my computer called JFK reloaded where you play as lee harvey oswald and you have to replicate the assassination of JFK. You're in a building and JFK drives by in his car in the back seat just like how it happened. Cop escorts, Secret service, everything. You have an unlimited amount of bullets and you get more points depending on how similar your shooting is compared to the actual one. It's a pretty neat simulator since you can show the driver instead and make JFK crash or shoot his wife or shoot all the cops and let JFK live.



yep

I actually know this game and know a lot about it. This was origanally a traffic simulator which bombed hard so it was transformed into a game with more a curiosity factor ergo jfk reloaded. An interview was done where the relatives of Jfk were asked of there thoughts about that game.