Dash of Destruction
Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Dec 17, 2008
The first Xbox 360 advergame of Doritos-brand seasoned tortilla chips follows the eternal, destructive conflict between delivery trucks and dinosaurs.
Advergaming At Its Most Honest?
This is my first Xbox 360 game. I went on Xbox.com and "bought" it, so it'll automatically be downloaded when I buy an Xbox 360 and connect to Xbox Live. :)
this is, indeed, refreshingly honest. I doubt that this will cause "a rash of crappy advergames", because the companies know that your opinion of their product is going to be tied to your opinion of the advergame, and an awful game will actually make you less interested in their product. (Some advertising execs will tell you "any mindshare is good mindshare", but they're lying.)
200 Free Advertising *ahem* I mean Achievement Points YaY!
Achievement points are kind of pointless (no pun) now days anyway. Achievements are fun to get but I don't care about the points or trophy levels or any of that crap. So Doritos can have NO hold on me, HA HA HA! *crunch* mmmmm... salsa verde.
Yea Yaris was pathetic, I hate that game sooo much that I would never by the car Yaris... Thats when advertising games can really hurt your product!!! Make something good and it will make me think that much more about it, bring something bad and Ill never forgive you as a brand.
Achievement Unlocked : 5G - Nacho Ranch!
By being a greedy slob, you managed to get BOTH flavors of Doritos on your controller. Congrats you pig!
I'd be abit worried that this might degenerate into: "Watch this commercial for McKFKing and get 100 points!" as jeff mentioned.
Although i guess you could just put it on and mute it and go make a cup of tea, thus bitch slapping the advertising company.
edit: Although i guess you could just put it on and mute it and go eat a pack of doritos, thus bitch slapping the advertising company......F***
This is what adver-gaming should be. Completely transparent about its intentions. Scion was such crap its cool to see a decent game come out of this finally. And from a well known developer (NinjaBee) to boot. Sure its not amazing and after getting all the easy points I don't really have any intention of going back to it. But, it was fun while it lasted. And it wasn't even branded as much as I expected it to be, I am amazed that the Doritos logo isn't on every screen of the game.
I liked how it knew that it wasn't very good and it's only purpose was to boost gamerscores. I beat it 5 minutes ago and the only achievement I have left is the multiplayer one.
Mmmmm,
Doritos
Hell I think this is the way to go. You aren't forced to wait through the game to play another, or watch a movie, or TV show, its a choice. And it doesn't SUCK.
Surprisingly, I actually had some fun with it. Though I can't get that damn multiplayer achievement without a second controller... or friends...
you know what's wak? some dude eats Doritos and then runs to the mailbox and back and he's out of breath, then he starts talkin to you, breathin hard in your face with alotta H words like "Hey homie, hows it hangin, huh?" and it fucks your nose hair up every time because the smell of Doritos commin out of another man's mouth is deee fuckin scusting. and Corn Nuts too. it should be unlawful to breathe after eatin that shit.
its good to see regular folk behind the games again. i wish Microsoft would fuckin throw AudioSurf on the DLC list. they obviously support independent games and they have enough gay Bukkake love makin sessions with their best friends Valve, you'd think a little AudioSurf would show up some where.
I absoutly loved this game. Not only was it a nice free 200 points but it was really fun! I even had fun playing as the Doritos truck. God dammit I want a bag of it now. Damn they got to me!
For a free game, it was actually kind of entertaining. I enjoyed the fact that it new exactly what it was. It's humor was actually pretty strong, I would say. Personally, I buy Dorito's all the time anyway, so this really didn't effect me... but it's nice to be paid to interact with a commercial, in gamer points. Essentially, I feel I got more out of this deal than they did.
I wish more advertisements were both enjoyable and paid me to deal with them.
So if Jonathan Blow hates advertisements in video games, I wonder how he feels about a video game that is an advertisement...
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