Check out EA's latest viral campaign for Dante's Hell possessing websites here.
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The PR campaign for Dante's Inferno has been quite the adventure. Booth babes were listed as prizes, game writers were sent $200 checks, and EA paid for "Christian" picketers to protest the game at E3. True, these things may have been controversial, but they were successful in their intent to get everyone talking about the game. The latest stunt is eerie, and gets bonus points for both creativity and giving the fans some fun bonuses.
If you looked at the source code of certain social networking sites, as well as gaming locations, you may have found a surprise in the past few days: ASCII artwork from Dante's Inferno and a password to be put into a mysterious site. The site shows six slots for the passwords, meaning there were six hidden images scattered around the Internet.
I am getting more excited about playing this game, even though I thought the demo was FAR too God Of War.
That is very fun stuff. I like it when companies hide info all around like that. The stuff with Lost was pretty bad ass, too.
I tend to agree with you, too. The game was definitely God of War in a different setting. I grew tired of that series after the second one. The boring ass puzzles and all the yelling seems overly done. At what point does Kratos just become an asshole with anger management problems?
I think wether the game itself is good or bad, certain media sites *ahem* giant bomb, gamespot, are going to "teach EA marketing a lesson" when this game ships.
Since reviewers already feel set upon, with an ongoing anxiety to be validated as critics in the sea of competition from bloggers, when a company overtly flaunts them with bribes and so on, the main way they can strike back is by nuking the metascore of the game.
I think wether the game itself is good or bad, certain media sites *ahem* giant bomb, gamespot, are going to "teach EA marketing a lesson" when this game ships.
Since reviewers already feel set upon, with an ongoing anxiety to be validated as critics in the sea of competition from bloggers, when a company overtly flaunts them with bribes and so on, the main way they can strike back is by nuking the metascore of the game.
We shall see.
How about I review it tomorrow?
Yeah, sounds like a good plan.
__________________ Sega: Betting on the wrong horse since 1992.
-Orz
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