5:02 PM on 10.24.2009
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Niero
Advertising: No matter how retarded your idea is someone will eventually bump into it and pay attention.
While not surfing for pornography one of our readers spotted an advertisement for Alliance of Valiant Arms, a two-year old Korean FPS that ijji acquired recently. (They added a lovely coat of localization & Internet bubble wrap for European and American audiences this year). The game seems to borrow heavily from popular wartime game franchises, so its no surprise that this made it into the marketing. Better than Call of Duty 4 and Counterstrike combined you say? "Why wait for Modern Warfare 2?", it says. Check out the gallery below. This must be the greatest FPS of our generation!
Or not.
You can't blame them for trying. The banner ads appear to be real testimonials from fans, but exactly where these comments were posted remains a mystery. Their authenticity could not be confirmed by doing Google searches for either of the player handles. Maybe they were translated from the original game's Chinese and Korean communities, or sent privately though the air to their minister of propaganda by a bilingual carrier pigeon ambassador.
Curious like to see how it stacks up? Check out AVA's site and try to sneak into the beta. Maybe we can see our our reader testimonials stack up to the ones that made the ads. If you've played it let's hear your comments.
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Yeah, I'm not surprised. There is a glut of korean "web only" games that try to pawn themselves off as AAA titles when in reality they are more similar to first generation counter-strike or runescape.
I mean, they even rip each other off.
Dofus - http://www.gameogre.com/reviewdirectory/upload/Dofus%20Arena.jpg
Luminary -
http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/839/839014/luminary07120301a_1196663824.jpg
Maple Story -
http://gameviper.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/maplestory2007-10-0515-15-13-51.png
Wonder King -
http://upload.wonderking.co.kr/resource/2009/20090604/20090604PL5SF3KT9Y96.jpg
There's enough free (and decently good) gaming on there to keep you busy for a LONG time.
Just GunZ alone is worth the price of admission (which is FREE, by the way).
13 year old.
What? I thought people kept porn opened in some tabs while keeping sites like this opened in others.
And why did pronubking spell it "Warfare2" instead of "Warfare 2"?
@niero and rbinator, same thing happened to me! i looked to the right and saw it as soon as i finished reading the article, and now i can't stop laughing.
A sexy woman, poorly illustrated with large breasts lays sprawled on the ground, running vertically like a vertical banner ad. She's wearing a ACU bikini top and ACU bottoms, with a rifle resting between her robust breasts. The text that appears in the ad reads "This is your rifle, and these are my GUNS, Captain."
BAM. I should be in shitty marketing.
... nope, even Modern Warfare 2 on PC with matchmaking is better.
Does it have dedicated servers?"
Yep, at least it has real PC support, instead of an afterthought of getting PC sales like MW2.