"Banned" XBox 360 ad [Archive]

Vandenh

11-29-2005, 05:27 AM

According to Eurogamer this (http://www.linkshard.com/?I=756) is a banned 360 ad. According to other sites it isn't really banned, just for the web only.

Check it out, one of the best gamer ads ever.

Oddmaker

11-29-2005, 05:49 AM

Why the fook is this banned? It's pritty funny if you ask me. Adults acting like kids :D

Ludoc

11-29-2005, 05:53 AM

Banned, eh? That's odd because I could have sworn I saw it on TV two or three days ago.

fitbabits

11-29-2005, 05:57 AM

Banned, eh? That's odd because I could have sworn I saw it on TV two or three days ago.
It's banned in the UK and (I think) Europe in general. I saw it here in the USA a few days ago and my wife and I were in fits of laughter during it. After we'd picked our jaws up from the floor, that is.

Savok

11-29-2005, 06:04 AM

Needs to be in slow motion. Who plays War in real time? Geez

monkey13

11-29-2005, 06:06 AM

Banned over here? If it is then that's just stupid. I remember a recent ad (can't remember what it was for though) with adults playing shooty death. So if it has been banned it must be because it's associated with a games console.

DalaiDan

11-29-2005, 06:19 AM

It's banned in the UK and (I think) Europe in general. I saw it here in the USA a few days ago and my wife and I were in fits of laughter during it. After we'd picked our jaws up from the floor, that is.
Pretty weird if it's banned in the UK, the whole idea for the ad is "borrowed" from an episode of the UK comedy Spaced (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187664/).

Savok

11-29-2005, 06:30 AM

Pretty weird if it's banned in the UK, the whole idea for the ad is "borrowed" from an episode of the UK comedy Spaced (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187664/).
And they knew it was to be done in slow motion.

Abednigo

11-29-2005, 06:31 AM

Best game ad ever. Even if it is for the 360. ;)

Reanimated

11-29-2005, 06:33 AM

lol that was awesome.

My favorite game ads are still the old Crash Bandicoot ones, though.

StoneGut

11-29-2005, 06:34 AM

That was great!

GunnyMo

11-29-2005, 06:35 AM

That was hilarious! I loved the chick tossing a grenade around the corner! Too, too funny. :D

Serapth

11-29-2005, 06:44 AM

Wow, EA is normally pretty quick on the news, but this one has been floating around for a few weeks.

Its a great commerical though, ive sent it to dozens of people already. That link given seems kinda slow, try this one:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8977220037186079415&q=xbox+standoff

JediSanf

11-29-2005, 06:45 AM

Oh my god, that was brillant. Best part has gotta be either the cabbie or the guy falling off the balcony. How could that be banned anywhere? It perfectly exemplifies the childlike fun videogames offer.

Of course, everyone's favorite psychotic lawyer is going to have a field day with this one.

Taco

11-29-2005, 06:50 AM

Not that it deserves to be banned anywhere, but at least Europe has it's priorites right when it comes to the whole sex vrs violence thing.

jeffool

11-29-2005, 06:50 AM

Yeah, Spaced is a great show. They need to hurry with the third season already. But yeah, the spot was funny enough.

Derella

11-29-2005, 06:56 AM

Hilarious -- I loved it.

fitbabits

11-29-2005, 07:07 AM

Schnoogs

11-29-2005, 07:15 AM

HAHAHAHHAHA!!!

That rocked!!

Serapth

11-29-2005, 07:17 AM

Except your link no worky! :D

Crap... they must have pulled it. Buggers.

Malovech

11-29-2005, 07:20 AM

OMG that was hilarious!

Taco

11-29-2005, 07:25 AM

I think google video may be down.

Serapth

11-29-2005, 07:29 AM

Yeah I tend to agree. That google video link worked yesterday. Now any term I search for in GV returns 0 results.

OMG, does this mean Google is Fallible? Isnt that proof positive that god doesnt exist?

fitbabits

11-29-2005, 07:34 AM

OMG, does this mean Google is Fallible? Isnt that proof positive that god doesnt exist?
I think if anything it proves that God does exist and that he or she is capable of having a bad day, just like the rest of us. :)

DeviousMiscreant

11-29-2005, 07:48 AM

mkelehan

11-29-2005, 08:00 AM

The best video game ad I ever saw was a Playstation series ad called "Signs." I only saw it once, and absolutely loved it. Apple's 1984 has nothing on it, seriously. If anyone can track it down, that'd be great.

Gaz

11-29-2005, 08:01 AM

Google video was proberbly taken offline for the moment, that's why there isn't a single video on it. To be honest, I've not seen a single advert for the Xbox 360 in the UK anyway, be it on TV or from the two times I've been to the cinema in the past week. Poor advertising effort, if I'm honest. But yes, it is proberbly banned over here because of the events of the London bombings, and the whole killing-that-inoccent-brazilian-blokey ordeal thats still going on.

NeuroMan42

11-29-2005, 08:02 AM

I saw that AD the other day. I think it is freaking great, and hilarious too. America is too damn uptight if ya ask me.

DCJoeDog

11-29-2005, 08:03 AM

Best moments:

1)Cabbie saying "Just a moment" with his held up index finger
2)lady throwing a "grenade" around the corner and then two guys reacting to it
3)the dude falling off the balcony
4)the janitor walking out of his room to go "oh shit" and walk right back into the room

all in all, I liked the ad, I would like to have a HQ version of it though.

jacktion

11-29-2005, 08:03 AM

Wow, that's a nice slideshow. Any links to a functioning video of this?

Gaz

11-29-2005, 08:08 AM

There are higher quality versions circulating at the moment DCJoeDog, I have one on my hard disk but my upload is dedicated to... Other things ¬_¬

agentgray

11-29-2005, 08:25 AM

Isn't this a dupe? I coulda sworn we talked about it in another thread.

Either way, this video is pretty dang funny.

Serapth

11-29-2005, 08:27 AM

Stiffler

11-29-2005, 08:30 AM

Why the hell would this get banned over here? As has already been mentioned, there was an advert a couple of months ago with something similar in a cab office and one of my favorite episodes of Spaced. The only reason I can think of is that it takes place in (what I think is) a trainstation.

I think "Banned" is probably a bit harsh. More like "Not shown due to local sensitivities"

People running around and shooting at each other in a train station. Given the current political fallout from the Menezes shooting (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/london_blasts/tube_shooting/html/default.stm) , this advert not being aired in the UK is hardly surprising.

Xaerin

11-29-2005, 08:47 AM

Well, seeing as I have three or four currently un-used domains, with like 60 gigs a month in traffic, I suppose I can setup a mirror for this one :) Let me know how the transfer speeds our, ive never really tested this hosting company in the past. ( they sure are cheap though...... ).

http://www.netsalesman.com/StandoffSmall.wmv

THANK YOU!

All I been hearing is how awesome this video is and yet I couldn't get a working link anywhere! Finally! Good stuff, pretty rediculous it's banned cause of "local sensitivities" if that is indeed the case, with music like that how can you possibly take it seriously?!

Serapth

11-29-2005, 08:58 AM

THANK YOU!

All I been hearing is how awesome this video is and yet I couldn't get a working link anywhere! Finally! Good stuff, pretty rediculous it's banned cause of "local sensitivities" if that is indeed the case, with music like that how can you possibly take it seriously?!

How was your d/l speed btw?

TheKeck

11-29-2005, 08:58 AM

That was awesome.

Vandenh

11-29-2005, 09:02 AM

>How was your d/l speed btw?

135KB/s

The Iron Weasel

11-29-2005, 09:06 AM

Fantastic Ad.

fitbabits

11-29-2005, 09:08 AM

I saw that AD the other day. I think it is freaking great, and hilarious too. America is too damn uptight if ya ask me.
Except the ad was banned in the UK and Europe, not the USA. I've seen it a few times on Spike TV and ESPN here.

Sheesh.

abso

11-29-2005, 09:18 AM

I thought the first one they ran, with the kids throwing water balloons everywhere was awesome. Made me want to run to the store to buy balloons to throw at people. =)

DCJoeDog

11-29-2005, 09:46 AM

How was your d/l speed btw?

153Kbps here

Gorilla800lbs

11-29-2005, 10:05 AM

Off the hook!

Deathbane27

11-29-2005, 10:39 AM

Heh, that was great. :D

The Letter 3

11-29-2005, 11:02 AM

That was great advertising. I wonder how many takes they did with real guns before they figured out that pretend guns would work a lot better...

Xaerin

11-29-2005, 12:23 PM

How was your d/l speed btw?

It was over 100kbps, took just a couple minutes.

Kelegacy

11-29-2005, 12:40 PM

Except the ad was banned in the UK and Europe, not the USA. I've seen it a few times on Spike TV and ESPN here.

Sheesh.

But if there was cleavage, or any sexuality, it would be banned straight away. We love violence, just not sex. Or something like that.

fitbabits

11-29-2005, 01:01 PM

But if there was cleavage, or any sexuality, it would be banned straight away. We love violence, just not sex. Or something like that.
Very true. Sad, but true...

Evil Avatar

11-29-2005, 01:39 PM

Isn't this a dupe? I coulda sworn we talked about it in another thread.

Either way, this video is pretty dang funny.

You are correct, we did a thread about this ad before the Holiday. But, it is cool enough to live through a second post. :)

Or should I have said, "This isn't news." and gone and pouted in a corner?

Serapth

11-29-2005, 01:40 PM

You are correct, we did a thread about this ad before the Holiday. But, it is cool enough to live through a second post. :)

Or should I have said, "This isn't news." and gone and pouted in a corner?

... um.... B!

Get back to your corner!

Evil Avatar

11-29-2005, 01:41 PM

But if there was cleavage, or any sexuality, it would be banned straight away. We love violence, just not sex. Or something like that.

I like my violence with a healthy dose of sex, thank you very much. I'm into the whole sex & death thing. (Or at least I was when I was a disgruntled teen. Now, I'm just hoping to have more sex before I'm dead.)

That is why I'm a big fan of the Friday the 13th movies. There is some kind of an odd social statement in there somewhere that I haven't figured out. And while I'm busy figuring it out I can watch Jason chop peoples heads off. Always a laugh.

Kelegacy

11-29-2005, 01:56 PM

I like my violence with a healthy dose of sex, thank you very much. I'm into the whole sex & death thing. (Or at least I was when I was a disgruntled teen. Now, I'm just hoping to have more sex before I'm dead.)

That is why I'm a big fan of the Friday the 13th movies. There is some kind of an odd social statement in there somewhere that I haven't figured out. And while I'm busy figuring it out I can watch Jason chop peoples heads off. Always a laugh.

Sex and violence are the reasons I get out of bed in the morning. Where the average person will be fantasizing about lunch around 11 or 12, I sit at my desk, in the office, plotting out the demise of my workplace, visualizing the death, destruction, and the ensuing torrent of crimson rain that would excite me in a rage of lust, violent colors of ecstasy and pain co-mingling in my brain until a sensory overload threatens to ejaculate itself all over the flat-panel display of my Gateway.

Stormwatcher

11-29-2005, 02:26 PM

The menezes shooting created quite a bit of outrage here... And rightly so, I might add. The poor guy was executed for no real reason. OK, this kinda of thing happens a lot here, but in England?

BTW, Rockstar should do a GTA Rio de Janeiro, it woulb be about 10x bloodier than GTASA

Commissar Rob

11-29-2005, 03:45 PM

Is there anyway to save a file like that locally, oh smart and snarky web-folk? That's absolutely brilliant!

mister_slim

11-29-2005, 03:54 PM

Except the ad was banned in the UK and Europe, not the USA. I've seen it a few times on Spike TV and ESPN here.

Sheesh.
Spike, on the other hand, should be banned.

bgivnin

11-29-2005, 04:26 PM

Is there anyway to save a file like that locally, oh smart and snarky web-folk? That's absolutely brilliant!

You can download it from here:

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/8098/Banned_XBOX_360_Ad_Stand_off.html

Commissar Rob

11-29-2005, 05:07 PM

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! Many thanks!

Achilles

11-29-2005, 05:59 PM

But if there was cleavage, or any sexuality, it would be banned straight away. We love violence, just not sex. Or something like that.Do you watch commercials? No cleavage or sexuality? I guess you don't watch desperate housewives, any soap opera, Lost, or anything on cable. We don't have nudity here on TV unless it's public access which actually has porn on it, or unless it's a back shot of the guy in NYPD blue. You know, Detective Scrotes.

TheHulk

11-29-2005, 06:49 PM

Pretty cool! And the best thing about.... The Clemson fight song! Hold that tiger!

luigiatlarge

11-29-2005, 07:36 PM

I can understand why it would be banned, its a scary thought that people would have such a loss of awareness that they would spend time pretending to shoot each other. I love violent games but I believe that violence should stay in the games. I know the commercial is just a joke, but its even scary to joke about that. Even it it wasnt violence, any video game material needs to be left in the game, not brought into reality. It becomes dangerous when you mix the two. wait why the hell am i talking about this, this is the interents, no one cares. lolz 360 sucks, PS3 FTW, omg lol

Rommel

11-29-2005, 07:40 PM

That was brilliant! Oh, and by the way - you may ONLY pull a pin with your teeth. It is a rule.

Serapth

11-29-2005, 07:48 PM

After showing a handful of people that commercial at work, the same conversation always came up.

If that happened near you, would you join in?

Pretty much always the same answer.

DAMN STRAIGHT!

EDIT: One guy said no, but then he is basically the uptight prick nobody likes in the first place... :)

Rommel

11-29-2005, 11:49 PM

One guy said no, but then he is basically the uptight prick nobody likes in the first place...

I bet his mom told him not to play war, or he's ripped his nice Sunday School clothes.

Bitch

Zeal

11-30-2005, 12:00 AM

This is one of the best videogame related ads I've ever seen.

Spigot

11-30-2005, 06:55 AM

I have to agree, this is an awesome ad.

Serapth

11-30-2005, 07:46 AM

Well, atleast I know my service provider is decent. The mirror I posted to this forum, got cross linked to a handful of other boards ( somethingawful.com being the biggest ) and ended up generating 30+ gigs of traffic. Hosting company seems to have handled it fairly well! Just glad I dont pay for overages! :)