And The Eye said, "Lo, there will be no hack-and-slash foisted upon America's beer drinkers..."
When we heard last week that EA had coughed up $2.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to advertise Dante's Inferno (out Tuesday 2/9), we thought, "Good gravy, they're trying to eat God of War 3's lunch!" Which is weird, because we can't imagine that Kratos eats anything other than some sort of supergruel that development-company employees probably wouldn't enjoy, due to its overnotes of locusts and mead. But there you go—a giant Super Bowl ad for an ultraviolent game based on a 14th-century epic poem. And you thought having a black president was something you'd never live to see!
The thing is, CBS reportedly got cold feet when faced with the original cut, so they demanded some changes be made. And we don't truck with censorship, so when EA sent us the original ad, we said HELL YES WE'LL PUT THIS UP AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT BRING US CBS' CENSORS' HEADS ON A PLATTER RAWR. Click on and peep the original ad, so when the censored version comes on you can turn to your Real Doll buddies and tell them in painstaking detail what was suppressed by the jackbooted thugs of network TV. Viva la revolucÃon!
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eps February 3rd, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Can't see a single thing wrong with that. Save for the whole hell thing maybe...but then again, that's what the game is about. How would you censor that?
eps February 3rd, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Eh yo fact check, you're not showing the original add by the way...that's the censored version! *gasp* The slogan at the end should of read "go to hell". That's what was censored.
Peter February 7th, 2010 at 12:59 PM
Yeah this IS the version CBS wants you to see, and you will see.... "Hell Awaits" will air instead of "Go To Hell"