Its a well known “secret” that many high profile American or Western Actors who would never be caught dead hyping a product in America, seem to lose those inhibitions when Japanese advertisers come knocking. Of course it doesn’t hurt that these Japanese advertisers frequently pay an exuberant amount to get such actors. People such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Daniel Craig, and Conan O’Brien have taken the plunge, in fact Bill Murray rather famously covered the craze in his movie “Lost In Translation. Well the trend has finally managed to pull off the ultimate coup, getting Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford to hype up a game that has been frequently said to have been inspired by his action movie persona – Uncharted 3.
Now take a look at the spoils of this confluence of events. First of which is a nearly 7 minute long “behind the scenes” type video where Harrison is experiencing the game for the first time, and looking like he is really impressed.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if Ford were so inspired by what he’s seen and played that he talked to his pals Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and told them that the next Indy flick should take some cues from Uncharted?
* Source: Kotaku.com
BTW: The "potential spoilers" mentioned in the title of the first video are on par with what has been seen in most of the already existing commercials and E3 demos. There is nothing there you haven't seen before unless you are on a total blackout of the game.
Game looks good. I'm sure I'll get ripped but I own the first two but have yet to play them. I need to get on that.
This is why I almost never bought more than one new game at once.
Being on an Uncharted media blackout, all these press videos are painful. Can't wait to play the game whenever I pick it up.
I've actually been doing an awesome job of avoiding Uncharted 3 media. It became even easier once the whole Subway cross promotion details came out. Oh don't get me wrong I am still going to get that game as soon as it comes out, but if you want to drive me away from your game, adding taunts that are marketing slogans for fast food chains is a great start.