Darksun wrote:Anyone who has ever played Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory knows the depths publishers will stoop to when putting advertising in games. It's the I, Robot of the game world - painfully obvious product placement!
As you said, game advertising has a place - anywhere in the real world you'd expect to see advertising (mostly sports games, but something like GTA is ripe for product placement - although I doubt the advertisers want the controversy).
I have played that game (for PS2) and I don't know what you're talking about. There may have been times when you walk past vending machines or a billboard, but none of that detracts from the game experience.
When I think of product placement in video games, the only game that comes to mind is
PIKMIN 2. And even then it doesn't detract from the experience.
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EDIT:
I bet it wasn't as bad product placement as the ads for PoP in Chaos Theory. Two NPCs:
"Hey, did you hear about the new Prince of Persia"
"Yeah man, we should totally go out and buy that, it's gonna be the best game ever"
This, I do not recall happening. Guess I missed it
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