Knock Off Nigel Advert

The United Kingdom government and its supporting regulatory bodies wanted to crack down on film piracy so decided to create some adverts showing people that they should not sell copied DVD's.

The advert is centered around a man in an office who is working away when everyone starts singing about knock off Nigel downloading knock off films. These were a series of adverts that went on to show how downloading and/or selling knock off films is a criminal activity that can support serious crime and even fund terrorism.

Tomb Raider Underworld Advert

Tomb Raider and Lara Croft, yes the amazing game with the most beautiful pixelated woman that has had mens hearts racing for over a decade is back with breathtaking results.

Tomb Raider has its new instalment called Tomb Raider: Underworld. This game carries with it an amazing video showing the game in motion, this advert is shown like a film montage with an amazing supporting soundtrack that really makes the advert come alive.

I love this advert and its smooth transition through the "film montage", this is a must see advert.

Call of Duty 5: World At War

Call of duty has a big series of amazing games that have done well so its not surprising that their advertising machine produces great adverts!

They have two adverts centering on the main game play of war. Each advert has a narrator on talking about the enemy with a different mantra, one side of an English speaking army, the other of an accented enemy who uses the final words "You are my enemy and if I am going to die Im going to take you with me".

This Call of duty advert is a great advertising masterpiece even though each advert is only around thirty three seconds in length.

Enemy army



English speaking army

Grand Theft Auto 4 Advert

The new Grand Theft Auto 4 advert has hit our screens and I must say I really like it, it is simple yet very effective.

The advert is a well used music soundtrack played over a film of the in game character walking through a city etc.

The move from one screen to another to show different aspects of the game is seamless and the way the character answers his phone and breaks a car window before stealing it at the end is created so well. I think the advert showing the in game graphics is so good you could believe it was a real film!

The great music soundtrack to this Grand Theft Auto 4 advert is by LCD Soundsystem and is called Get Innocuous.

The Banned Xbox Advert

Back at the very birth of the Xbox an advert was created and played on British television, before long many complaints had been written about the advert and it was banned to the sandbox of television archives.

This Xbox advert was a great play on enjoying life as its too short and really did use great graphics to get this across, unfortunately there were a few out in the world that thought it was creepy and morbid. Well, well I have searched high and low and found the advert in question so you can all feast your eyes on one of the very first Xbox adverts to grace our screens.

I personally feel this advert was a triumph as it really got people talking so the name Xbox was known by anyone and everyone.

Do you think this advert is creepy and morbid? Or like me do you think it was a triumph in advertising for the Xbox?