games with weird marketing crossovers...
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Whether it's games like Call of Duty, Halo or other big names, or it is video game marketing from the 90s, there have been a ton of weird marketing crossovers in video games...
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Need for Speed: Underground 2 had some pretty intense product placement. It had Best Buy, Burger King, McDonalds and T-Mobile amongst others.
product placement in car games have pretty much been a given since like the beginning
It was Cingular not T-Mobile ;)
It's Carbon that had T-Mobile
NFS Underground 1 and 2 both had come crazy product placement. Aftermarket parts, McDonalds, Burger King, and Cingular Wireless.
@@foxo444Man, that’s a name I haven’t seen in ages! My first cell phone when I was like 13 or 14 was a Samsung flip phone on Cingular lmao it eventually got folded into AT&T or something
You forgot the most important one, one so big that when this video game was brought to the Nintendo Switch, fans were disappointed the licenses weren't renewed.
34 brands featured all in one game, impossible to beat without collecting at least one, including:
- soda,
- sardines,
- honey,
- lip balm,
- baking powder,
- yogurt,
- batteries,
- mustard,
- more soda,
- gummies,
- shoe polish,
- I gave up because I don't think people would read this if I continued.
Pikmin 2. The purpose of Pikmin is to explore this strange planet, and in the second game you collect lost relics from this planet to pay off the debt. Not all of them are products, but the inclusion of brands helps instill the world-building of this place and that there was a civilization long ago that left these bottle caps and batteries behind, while showing the scale of your character as a small speck in the grand scheme of things.
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It should be a requirement that every game needs a forced product placement because I find this stuff comedy gold
No
It's only the right feeling in skateboarding games as far as skateboarding brands like Zero, dgk, Baker, Element, and such
Only if it's a fake in-game product. Im not paying 60-70$ for a game just to have corny advertising shoved in my face. Then where does it stop?
@xaviergl6397 you're just complaining
@@assassin8636 I mean he's not wrong
Alan Wake also had a deal with Lincoln, the car manufacturer. The car Alan and his wife drive to Cauldron Lake and on the ferry was a Lincoln SUV. They also changed that with the remaster release.
Skate's placement was perfect. It was never in your face and was a perfect product to fit the game and era.
Tey put da Maphter Chief in der Soder!
The Halo Mountain Dew commercials were my favorite!
my favorite in game advertisements i've seen are the alcohol brand placements in the Yakuza series, it just makes so much sense
I work at Domino's and the reason your coupon didn't work, I THINK, is because they were having an issue with people being able to use the coupon over and over again using new accounts. I wasn't there on the day but apparently my manager said we were getting killed with these pizzas and they eventually had to stop taking them entirely, so my bet is they eventually turned it off to stop that.
So, to add a bit of context (or whatever) to the racing game discussion, certain brands have actually signed exclusive deals to specific publishers. The biggest example of that has to be Porsche. In the early 2000s, Porsche and EA signed an exclusive licensing deal, so literally no other racing game could use officially branded Porsches until like 2016 or so (if I'm remembering correctly, I think it was a bit of a big deal when Forza finally was able to release the Porsche car packs for Motorsport 6 and Horizon 3). However, thankfully for non-EA racing games, there was a workaround to get 911s in games thanks to the German manufacturer RUF, who took stock Porsches, modified them, and legally resold them under their own branding, which made them eligible to include in other publishers' racing games.
And to add to your discussion of Toyota, there was a bit of time in the mid 2010s when Toyota refused to let their cars (apart from one of their Baja/Trophy race trucks) be featured in games that had street racing, so, ironically enough, there WAS in fact a Forza game (Horizon 3, I believe) without Toyotas (again, until they got re-added as a limited "Forzathon" reward).
Finally, I think that one big aspect of the car licensing thing comes down to the background/location of a game's developers. Building off the example of Gran Turismo, they feature quite a few Japanese manufacturers that only license to Sony (the one that comes to mind is Daihatsu). Playground Games (the developers of the Forza Horizon games) is mainly based out of the UK, which has given them access to fairly niche British manufacturers like Bowler and Noble.
So, tl;dr, there have been exclusive licenses for car manufacturers in the racing game scene, there has in fact been a Forza game without Toyotas, and, to some extent, car licensing probably has something to do with the location of a game's devs.
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I like these new (and more broad) video game topic videos, Rocket Sloth.
I think In game product placement is really charming as well as in the game manuals. Yakuza has to be my favorite example.
That CoD pizza box is legit art. 😂
Nathan Drake and Subway is the funniest one
It must have been a Sony thing at the time. Subways are dispersed throughout Infamous 2.
I loved Nathan Drake 3
Bawls energy drink was in a few games. Grab your Bawls.
Red bull was in wipeout before i ever saw it irl. That was surreal.
In the game SSX3, the vehicle Element was sponsored in the game and it was wild. You see billboards of it, they have a few on the side of the courses, and in one level, you literally grind through one with the doors open
I was just thinking that! Also the 7-up variant “dnL” on billboards lol. It really dates that game to a particular point in 2003 because I don’t think dnL was around very long
The Guitar Hero Music Licensing caused a shitstorm between Axel Rose and Slash
KFC was in PUBG last month. All the gas stations turned into the locations and gave you bundles to heal. Also promote heart disease
The cover of Uncharted 3 on the video's thumbnail shows the incorrect ESRB due to being Rated M rather than the actual T Rating.
Naughty Dog didn't make their first M-rated game until The Last of Us in 2013.
The Subway advertising is most known for Uncharted 3 (because of the tv ad) but Subway literally appeared in Infamous 2 and PlayStation Move Heroes.
You also had a sidekick in Midnight Club LA. Amazing game regardless 3:01
I always thought the energizer battery sponsorship in Alan Wake was kind of a negative bc the batteries die so quickly…
Mafia 2 playboy magazines one of the most iconic collectables in gaming
Possibly the best imo.
Rocket Sloth how could you forget about one of the 1st gaming advertisments ever. JET MOTO PS1 theychad racers and signs with full brandings from Mountain Dew and Butterfinger i vividly remember this.
I remembered this too. Had the game on PS1
Skate and the sidekick just felt natural together in the timeframe that it wasn’t even out of place at all imo
This past weekend ive actually been playing Rush 2 explaining to my nephew about the Mtn Dew cans and the Mtn Dew track car. I grew up playing Rush 2 with a N64 wheel and the memories still live on.
If you think of metal gear as serious military stories you think of metal gear wrong.
There is a very subtle one in Final Fantasy XV where the camping chairs and tents are Coleman brand. I like it because you could play through the whole game without noticing.
Death Stranding has the most in your face one with Monster Energy with the drink being a usable item, being plastered on trucks and sticking out completely from everything else in the game like someone modded it into the game.
Do more casual chats like this
Honestly, I love this style and format of video!
There is a call of duty black ops jeep that lives in my town. I always give him a double tap honk when I see him. My guy even has the call of duty elite tire cover on the spare. RIP such a different time❤
Honestly surprised you didn't mention the Call of Duty Ghost's Halloween thing with Michael Myers. Though I guess it wasn't really a marketing crossover, just a crossover.
tony hawks series had many brand deals including napster, nokia, jeep
Sneak King was just too wild of an idea to pass up, I still have my copy
Big bumpin was a surprisingly good multiplayer mini game.
My sister and i spent a lot of time playing that one.
Especially considering it cost us like... $5? CAD
The ending discussion that is very podcast like casual is a really nice touch I don't typically see
6:12
They also have a good amount of giveaways between Mountain Dew, Doritos, and Rockstar Energy, where with enough points you could get an Xbox Series S or any number of cool prizes. It's how I got Starfield, and am going to get a headset.
Rocket Sloth just doesn't miss! Another banger of a video
0:39 better dead than red.
1080 snowboarding had a big tommy hilfiger tie in. That brand was so popular by that point in the 90s.
The Halo 4 Mountain Dew ad was perfect
With games based on real sports like F1 and World Rally Championship, back in the 90's & 00's there were sponsors who gave permission for their brands to appear in games to lend authenticity rather than as marketing (since race cars & tracks are traditionally plastered with sponsor's names like tyre or engine oil brands, which aren't of much interest to gamers!).
I've always enjoyed picking out the faux products & branding designed to hint strongly about a specific product, but where the devs either didn't bother or weren't successful in getting permission or a marketing deal... like red drink cans with white writing saying 'Cola'... or a burger joint with a W brand that looks strangely familiar, kinda like an upside-down M.... LOL
And the pupper was a delightfully cute distraction in the background during your discussion at the end.... the combination of scripted segments & informal chat is a winner. 👍
Pikmin 2 had a ton of product placement, the most recognizable was the Duracell batteries lol
I just wanna say about the little caeser's promo for MW3 that you didn't have to order a pizza at all it was just two separate orders with a requirement of $3 which was basically the stuffed crazy bread that was promoted for it at the time, for MW2 the year before it was a full pizza combo tho lol (I've been an employee for almost 2 years and was able to keep a poster promo of the operator idk why I just had the urge to comment this) 20:20
I did what you did with Dominos to Pizza Hutt after they charged my gift card for a purchase that failed and was never made due to a server error, and when I tried to get help their Support ghosted me twice.
Also, according to The Cutting Room Floor, Code Vein, a post-apocalyptic anime vampire Dark Souls, has unused voicelines for a Domino's promotion.
I used to play a lot of phantasy star and it actually goes pretty hard for a lesser known saga ip
This was a relaxing video. Y'all should do that more often
just came home from university and jumped on my computer and saw yall had a new video and instantly jumped to it keep up the good work guys
Monster Hunter's Events tend to center around a partnership like Shonen Jump magazine or Universal Studios Japan
You didn’t mention Doritos Crash Course! I suppose it’s not a cross over as such but you mentioned the Cheetos game at the end which made me think of it because it’s basically the same type of game…!
Just realized I unironically ordered Little Caesars for the code while clicking on this video. Almost thought you werent gonna mention it since you moved on from talking about the CoD crossovers for a bit. Still need to order them one more time so I can play as Little Caesars on the good side and play as Mtn. Dew on the villians team.
Small correction, Burger King didn't do the other two games because of Sneak king, all three games were green lit and being developed at the same time. Its why all three ended up out pretty close together.
Also fun fact, Sneak kings disk works on both 360 and Xbox. It's a dual disk.
Yassss.. I had a T-Mobile Tony Hawk Sidekick! I so miss that PHONE!
Pretty sure there was Modern Warfare 3 had a jeep you could buy, too.
The Halo 3 Pontiac has me dying right now lmao.
The most memorable product placement for me are the Nokia phone billboards in Ultimate Spider-Man.
Why was there blackberries on the pizza at 19:02
ofc theres always Avenged Sevenfold in CoD:BO 1-3 with their music being easter egg tracks, or front and center when you boot up origins or wait forthe after credits scene in BO II
I actually tried Mtn Dew because of Halo 4! I was in high school and I was getting ready for the Halo 4 midnight launch, got some little caesars pizza and because it had Halo plastered all over it and I was curious, I picked up a 12 pack of Mtn Dew! Been hooked ever since
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel replaced Nuka Cola with the real world Bawls energy drink
That was wild.
in Tony hawks underground 2 there is a McDonalds. and in 2016 outlast 2 did a kickstarter for a adult diaper. and monster energy as 20 dirt bike games.
for the grimace game there are flash carts you just slot an sd or micro sd in with roms so it wouldn't be hard
Pepsi owns most of those companies including Doritos and Mountain-Dew, but his weird that they prefer to promote Mountain-Dew instead of Pepsi… Weird.
I couldn’t find the new Halo cans anywhere!
Mountain Dew is for “gamers”
When you consider the astronomically higher capital car companies have VS game studios, it seems pretty obvious they're the ones paying to get cross promotion in games. Mario Kart probably got a massive payout secured because Mercedes, a company that just casually built a stadium that one time in GA, has the ability to be the one big exception. Its no different for other racing games; it's just that they have nore willingness to collaborate.
Perfect background noise is right. You are great for playing at work.
37:58 I remember hearing on Donut that Toyota works with Gran Turismo as to not promote illegal street racing 💀
I swear my MW3 little ceasers pizza box showed up during this video so I was weirdly surprised to see it again moments later.
Great video!
3:28 so that's where the doritoes/mtn Dew MLG thing comes from, huh
PUBG does a lot of weird promotions. They also have a Torino’s pizza roll skin and right now they’re doing a promotion with Trolli gummy worms XD
don’t forget KFC 🐔
also in FF15 Colman camping gear was being shown off as well
Such a random brand
Forza Motorsport 7 & Forza Horizon 4 only featured race specific Toyota vehicles. Such as nascar or trophy trucks.
The world will be talking about the legendary halo 4 interview where they just had mountain dew and bags of doritos in the background
I just drove 50 miles to Fresno to just get Mountain Dew Citrus Cherry lol . Couldn't find it anywhere around my town.
Try doing games competing with games from the same studio/publisher like battlefield and Meddle of Honner or Resestance and Killzone
it will never not be funny that alan wake's crappy flashlight batteries are energizers lmao
You should have mentioned GTA 4 TBOGT and their Panasonic TV products in game or Metal Gear Solid 4 and Playboy magazine in game item
I remember the Dodge Nitro on the billboards in Crackdown
FFXIV had a few I remember I bought 5 butterfingers to get an in game mount. And I think I had to order pizza through DoorDash to get an “eat pizza” emote 😂
My favorite is the Sobe Green Tea machine in Oddworld Munch's Oddysee. 😂
Ordering pizza through Everquest 2 is fucking awesome and sounds kind of cozy and nostalgic
This is the type of video game content I come to TH-cam for.
Monster Assault is very popular in Europe, is in all stores
The Titanfall 2 x Buffalo Wild Wings wasn’t 2x Xp, it was a free Ion titan cosmetic and a free ticket for the game’s 1v1 mode, Coliseum, where you could unlock every extra cosmetic including executions. Nobody cared when this was going on and I was able to snag a stack and got so much free junk in that game, though the Battlefield crossover was the better cosmetic
28:12 dude really said I assume the LATER
SSX 3 had a board that was called “dnL”….it was just the 7up logo flipped
Not to mention that in Australia cod mw3 is sponsored by hungry jacks(Burger King)
I can’t help but think of Pikmin having Duracell batteries in the OG
I never redeemed my Halo 4 Mountain Dew + Doritos 38 matches double XP that for some reason is on my desk right now. It expired a decade ago.
They put the master chief in tha soder
i read somewhere that toyota is not in need for speed because they don’t want to be associated with illegal racing. i imagine some car manufacturers have specific requirements like that
i must say the retro items are the only way i want real sponsors its cool and can fit immersion without feeling like in ur face advertising
6:53 wait is this real? The best their editor could come do was have the mech hold a png of mountain dew?
0:08 or Carl Winslow on the cover of call of duty Black ops
Pocket Bike Racing is a Burger King game that still feels unreal but I love it
i like the end part discussion a lot
NOS energy drink gave out codes for a Batman beyond skin in Arkham City.
ford and black ops had a crossover, they made a truck and we've been driving it since 2012.
Bro, I just got a Ballantine x Borderlands add in this video, what the hell, 💀
This video. Is a video. That I endorse. On my hat
Skate 3 had an entire trick called the Miracle Whip, I’m suprised that wasn’t brought up..