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Guitar Hero 5 Trailer
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 12:58AM via [YouTube]
Recession special: Buy Guitar Hero 5, get Guitar Hero: Van Halen for free
Buy one, get one free.
In a move sure to resonate with recession-minded gamers, Activision's just-released Guitar Hero 5 game includes an offer to get the highly anticipated Van Halen version of the music game franchise for free.
As a value-based pushback against the Beatles: Rock Band juggernaut, it's an excellent idea. Guitar Hero 5 includes 85 tracks (versus just 45 in the Beatles game), plus 44 more in the Van Halen spin-off.
Guitar Hero 5 includes acts from Johnny Cash to Stevie Wonder to Tom Petty, while Guitar Hero: Van Halen has 25 classic VH songs, plus 19 more from "guest acts" such as The Clash and Deep Purple. If you're a VH superfan, note that the game reportedly excludes former members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, but does include current bassist Wolfgang Van Halen.
The free Van Halen game offer can be redeemed, according to the sticker affixed to the cover of our copy of Guitar Hero 5, by going to guitarhero.com/vanhalengameoffer and filling out an online form, including a unique serial number from the back of the Guitar Hero 5 instruction booklet.
The offer is good until October 1, and says to "allow up to six weeks for delivery," which should still put the Van Halen game in your hands before its official December 22 release date.
Update: After hearing from a few readers, we tried filling out the online form and got the following error message: "We're sorry, but due to overwhelming response we are having difficulties validating your code at this time. Please try again." A few hours later, we were able to complete the process, which ends with a printable form that has to be snail-mailed into a P.O. Box.
The Video Game Preview Trailer of AVATAR via [Vulture]
Monday, August 24, 2009 at 11:03AM Will Avatar: The Videogame Preview Be As Ridiculed As the Film’s Trailer?
8/21/09 at 4:15PM by Mark Graham
In our experience, video games based on movies generally suffer because they lack the photorealism of their cinematic source material. For example, no matter how cool the Joker looks in the upcoming release of Batman: Arkham Asylum, we're fairly confident the voice acting and animation will never be able to replicate what Heath Ledger (or even Cesar Romero) did with the character. However, considering that vast chunks of Avatar were created inside a computer and not on a soundstage (let alone on location), is there any chance the Avatar video game could possibly be better than James Cameron's film? Sad to say, probably not. The just-released trailer for the video game shows us a lot of scenes stylistically similar to the widely criticized trailer for the film that was released online some 30 hours or so ago: lush landscapes, scary beasties, and giant blue aliens. Another benefit of going to see the 3-D movie in the theater versus playing the video game? You could probably go to the movies four times for the price it would cost you to buy the game.
via [YouTube]
