New Guitar Hero: On Tour Commercial is Enough to Make a Grown Man Cringe

Seriously, 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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  • BeauRosser

    Not quite as cringe inducing and uncomfortable as the LIPS promo:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXzQ7pudIE&feature=related

  • madpuppy

    It’s just a damn stupid take off on a scene from that lousy Tom Cruise movie “risky business”.

  • Guy Incognito

    i change the channel every time i see arod come sliding out. It is terrible it is making the game less appealing.

  • Cadillac

    G – A – Y – !

  • horngreen

    I just vomited a little into my mouth.

  • http://www.ripten.com Chad Lakkis

    Oddly enough Horn, the title originally read “make a grown man vomit” but I thought it was too mean.

  • Tomonoatmeal Cookigaki

    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!

  • Jonathan Zungre

    i agree with you cookigaki, Phelps is in pain. and to think, that was the best shot they got of him.

  • The Whaler

    Commercials like this are why I hate games like Rock band and GH