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Avan Madisen
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 22:23 Edited at: 29th Nov 2005 22:24
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Microsoft wasn't allowed to release this advert for legal reason. Here's a link to a page that has it viewable:
http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/11/22/banned-xbox-360-ad-best-ad-ever/

[edit] basically you'll never see this in theatres or on tv!

Moderators - After viewing this ad I would personally be surprised if you have any problems with it, but in light of the fact it has 'technically' been banned from general release I'll remove it if asked.

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 22:30
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ROFL... that was awesome. Gotta love the grenade, and the guy in the car

This is da second best ad ever imho (first place goes to the www.stickarena.com trailer)


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Jeku
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 22:41
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That was pretty cool Why was it banned?


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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 22:41
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Because it makes people want to go out into the real world and shoot people.


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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 22:46
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Ah, of course


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Hawkeye
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 22:47
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It reminds me of an old "realworld rpg" I read about... a bunch of people with nerf guns and water pistols, who were assigned real life "targets" who they had to go out and "kill" with a squirt of water

Imagine that, only with everybody in the mall a part of it


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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 22:57 Edited at: 29th Nov 2005 22:57
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Its a pretty blatant ripoff of various Tarentino films, including all the violence - the latter being the problem. I can certainly see why the wisely decided not to use it.

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Yeah thats pretty funny i really liked the grenade throw.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 02:18
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teehee, was pretty funny, was there supposed to be audio?

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 02:35
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I loved the guy on the balcony.


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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 04:41
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Quote: "teehee, was pretty funny, was there supposed to be audio? "

yeah, they say "bang" and make gun noises

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indi
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 07:38
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great idea for an add.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 07:46 Edited at: 30th Nov 2005 07:46
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They shoulda ran this ad, its not "violent" persay... plus its quite hillarious. And god knows its less suggestive than beer ads.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 12:29
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Complete rip off.

Anyone watch Spaced?

They did a parody of The Matrix and did pretty much exactly that about 5 years ago, only funnier.


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 12:41
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Quote: "They shoulda ran this ad, its not "violent" persay"

Not directly, but implied.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 13:49
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thats pretty good, i still like that beer ad from a while back where they have tons of ppl and whatnot running around & singing

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 16:00
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I was expecting something interesting but that's a crap ad. It's not violent at all, it's just people pretending to shoot each other with their hands the way 5 or 6 year old kids do. If I was microsoft I'd pull that ad anyway because it's so lame. There's a good one on tv at the moment that has some decent action going on, much better and more violent too imo.


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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 16:23
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Why was that banned? Honestly, anyone wants that banned should go to China. Their type of country.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 16:24
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Probably the implied violence.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 22:15
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Huh, I thought it was pretty much pure pwnage.

Then again, what do I know.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 22:36
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Cool ad, showed it to my dad and the guys at work, everyone loved it.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2005 23:51
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Someone would complain about the implied violence, and it seems that in this day and age if one person complains about the content of something it gets banned!

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Posted: 1st Dec 2005 02:17
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That is the greatest Microsoft's ad. Ever. The idea is really funny, but banned from TV...because some people do not understand that killing is great, but only in video games...

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it wasn't banned, they just decided not to air it.


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Posted: 1st Dec 2005 06:30
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I banned it. I am a god. Demi-god of crappy ads. Yep. That wasnt least bit funny so *shwwooosh* ban.

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Posted: 1st Dec 2005 10:59
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BOOM! *tschk tschk*

In your face, Thompson. ^_^

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it isn`t actualy banned, it`s gonna be screened towards Christmas, I read an article on it where they said as much, some other websites that where passing it on added the "banned" header to it, it is going to be shown, its just a big bunch of people playing about like kids do, thats the point, it isn`t voilent or anything, just adults playing shoot em up like kids do.



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It's hilarious and I liked it. If you think about it thats what your controller, keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc do in a game. So I now want to buy an X-Box 360 just because they gave me the giggles...**sigh** Gonna wait until the price drops a lot though...a year or so...lol, good things come to those who wait I guess.

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that is the coolest add i've seen in a long time, well done m$ i say

as to the x360, i'm thinking of getting one of the limited edition halo 3 ones when they come out, i hope they use the dev kit colours for it


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Posted: 1st Dec 2005 18:21
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I like it Its hardly original, but its done well. I hardly see how that could be considered offensive or overly violent, any more than kids playing in the playground. The guy in the car on his phone is great I hope they decide to air this at some point


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it was proberbly not released because it's such a rip off of spaced.

it is good tho

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2005 06:07 Edited at: 2nd Dec 2005 06:08
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That was funny. No matter who they ripped it off it was still funny.


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Hilarious! Gotta love the guy in the car on his cell phone...


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You know, it's possible that MS didn't release this ad in order to stir up talk about the XB360 and have people unwittingly advertise their product without being paid. If it's true, I fell into that trap...

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*bang*

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You know this ad is so great that when I showed my friend who happens to be both a Mac fanboy and Microsoft loather and has also stated several times that if he bought an Xbox360 that I had the complete right to put a gun to his head and pull the trigger said that if he had seen the ad on TV then he would have gone out and bought(at least attempted) one on the spot.



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If that add is insiting violence then the PS 2 add with Jak and the car where he "Jakerizes" the car, and then shoot a missle at the house and blow it up shouldn't be aired. But I saw it on TV about 10 minutes ago.

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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 01:14 Edited at: 4th Dec 2005 01:14
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It's got something to do with the difference between real people being idiots and in-game or rendered graphics.

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@Arkheii:
Quote: " BOOM! *tschk tschk*

In your face, Thompson. ^_^"


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This commercial is extremely LAME.
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Here, have a cookie.

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I think this thread is losing the plot...

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Plot? *sharp cough* what... plot?


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Quote: "i still like that beer ad from a while back where they have tons of ppl and whatnot running around & singing"


Do you mean this great one: http://www.bigad.com.au/
Although I like this one better



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Quote: " Because it makes people want to go out into the real world and shoot people."


Good thinking, Jimmy .

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