MTV Next Generation Xbox 360 special

XBox 360 Special on MTV

So last night I set my TiVo to record the MTV Next Generation Xbox 360 special featuring the band, "The Killers". I have been pumped up about watching this special ever since it was announced last month. I waited until the special was about 12 minutes in before I started it up (so I could still fast forward over the commercials).

Before I go on, let me reiterate that I hate advertising and marketing for the most part. It rarely sways my buying behavior. I also haven't watched MTV since that retarded guy and the gay guy who died of AIDS lived in that house together with other attention starved losers and fought. Yeah, this was the grand daddy of Love Cruise and Paradise Motel.

Anyway, I guess I was being naive thinking that there would be something really 'cool' XBox 360 related going down. It was a very fast half-hour show hosted by Frodo (c'mon, like Bob Denver doesn't get called Gilligan everywhere he goes?), and featuring 2 long songs performed by "The Killers", a Pimp-My-Pinto Xbox segment (with the original freakin' Xbox not the new one!), and a bunch of trendy clubbers screaming about how "amazing" the new Xbox 360 is. Oh yeah, and you got to see a politically correct mix of professional nerds (let's see, I need a black guy, someone with a vagina, and an elderly blind gentlemen with a speech impediment. What do you mean he died? Oh Fu*k, just put that white boy in then...) play each other in Perfect Dark Zero.

It was a show aimed at the MTV audience. You didn't really learn anything more that you already knew about the XBox 360. It starts with some dippy girl prancing down a catwalk with an over-the-shoulder bag. She goes up to a plexiglass podium and whips out her Xbox 360 and places it on top of a 80's style light show. XBox 360 - You're so SASSY! This made me think of the time I went down to San Diego in the early 90's and saw an M.C. Hammer laser show at one of the museums. Right at the part where he says, "Stop! Hamma-time" this big purple Vectrex looking M.C. Hamma sticks out his hand and it turns into a red stop sign. Wish I could buy a DVD of that somewhere...

Anyway, there was one really cool (although lightning fast) segment showing several earlier protypes that didn't make the cut. The brief history of video games convieniently omitted 15 years worth of healthy competition (can a brotha get a dream-cast? dream-cast!).

The Killers - not a terrible band, but I saw more of them than of the new Xbox. Seriously.

If you are a gaming hobbyist, check out the ourcolony.net video. At five minutes it contained more valuable info than that whole MTV sucka-jam. Well, looking forward to what the G4 coverage brings...

Clips from ames on XBScene :
ourcolony.net video