New Guitar Hero: On Tour Commercial is Enough to Make a Grown Man Cringe
by Chad Lakkis on October 30, 2008 at 12:38 pmSeriously, who thought four grown men wearing pink dress shirts and white boxers sock sliding across a hardwood floor was a good way to market Guitar Hero: World Tour?
What type of Rock Band Group are Tony Hawk, Alex Rodriguez, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Phelps forming? A sissy band that caps off a long night of underwear performances in their living room with a pillow fight? Maybe they can call their band the “Old News Pretty Boy Ski Lodge Olympic Mike” Band. Why Mike? Who told you to do this commercial?
Activision, please hear my plea. Fire your ad agency. The quadruple piano intro is to testosterone as Kryptonite is to Superman.
Afterthought: Does anyone actually like these commercials? Does this make you want to buy Guitar Hero over Rock Band 2?
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on October 30, 2008 5:08 pm
Not quite as cringe inducing and uncomfortable as the LIPS promo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXzQ7pudIE&feature=related
on October 30, 2008 5:52 pm
It’s just a damn stupid take off on a scene from that lousy Tom Cruise movie “risky business”.
on October 30, 2008 5:52 pm
i change the channel every time i see arod come sliding out. It is terrible it is making the game less appealing.
on October 30, 2008 6:24 pm
G – A – Y – !
on October 30, 2008 8:26 pm
I just vomited a little into my mouth.
on October 30, 2008 8:36 pm
Oddly enough Horn, the title originally read “make a grown man vomit” but I thought it was too mean.
on November 1, 2008 8:56 am
Cookigaki can see the pain in Michael Phelps’s eyes. Cookigaki will help end your suffering, Michael-san. The next commercial will not be Risky Business, it will be Kill Bill… and it will be real. Cookigaki will make sure these four are appropriately wearing their indoor sunglasses and black leather… permanently. Until then, Cookigaki does not approve!
on November 1, 2008 9:35 am
i agree with you cookigaki, Phelps is in pain. and to think, that was the best shot they got of him.
on November 2, 2008 1:33 am
Commercials like this are why I hate games like Rock band and GH