What would happen if a famous singer sung songs for a video game?

I think the game would sound strange?

I think the game would sound strange?

If you're going for the quest you don't have to put the blog in the forum.

"If you're going for the quest you don't have to put the blog in the forum. "

Well it happened for Red Dead. Jose Gonzalez recorded "Far Away" specifically for Red Dead 
  

" If you're going for the quest you don't have to put the blog in the forum. "

Aerosmith has contributed "Dream On," "Amazing" and "Cryin'" to the Dead or Alive franchise, and Steve Vai was WAY famous before contributing any guitar work to video games. Do you mean recording new material to be exclusively in a video game? That's probably happened too, though I can't think of any specific examples. 
 
What "would" happen? Fans of the game might be introduced to a new singer if they haven't already heard them. I doubt many "new" players would pick up a game just because an artist released a track on it, and I doubt it would affect the opinions of fans or critics; it'd just be a new way to get the music out, and it might be cool to have better ending credits music for once.

"Aerosmith has contributed "Dream On," "Amazing" and "Cryin'" to the Dead or Alive franchise, and Steve Vai was WAY famous before contributing any guitar work to video games. Do you mean recording new material to be exclusively in a video game? That's probably happened too, though I can't think of any specific examples."

to late dude its all over the place its more and more commen they sing and act for video games its better than doing a movie 

Leona Lewis sung a song for the soundtrack of FF13.

Snoop Dogg and LiL' Wayne for Need for Speed Underground 1/2

Final Fantasy XIII would happen.

" What "would" happen? Fans of the game might be introduced to a new singer if they haven't already heard them. I doubt many "new" players would pick up a game just because an artist released a track on it, and I doubt it would affect the opinions of fans or critics; it'd just be a new way to get the music out, and it might be cool to have better ending credits music for once. "

@Little_Socrates said:

  What "would" happen? Fans of the game might be introduced to a new singer if they haven't already heard them. I doubt many "new" players would pick up a game just because an artist released a track on it, and I doubt it would affect the opinions of fans or critics; it'd just be a new way to get the music out, and it might be cool to have better ending credits music for once. "

It happens all the time, and nothing happens. The people who hate the singer hate that song in the game and everyone else just ignores it like it was any other background music no one cares about.

You mean this?

Nothing really. I suppose at its best it will have more people looking up on who wrote the song and make that particular artist more famous if its a good song. The best example from the top of my head is Faunts with their epic credit song at the end of Mass Effect.

What about Korn's awesome song for Haze!?
It was the shit! They really rocked it!

" What about Korn's awesome song for Haze!?It was the shit! They really rocked it! "

So like Mike Patton in The Darkness?  He voiced the Darkness, provided all of the original music in the game, and Starbreeze used one of his older songs ("Captain Midnight" by Tomahawk) as the ending credits theme. 

As everyone else has said, this has happened several times already.

Don't forget that Kanye West contributed some beats to Gunblade N.Y.

Nothing would happen. This is an odd question.