Spike TV has another game that it gets to exclusively reveal at the upcoming 2009 Video Game Awards with Microsoft’s Crackdown 2. To promote it the network is again tickling gamers with a five second blip of footage, just as they did with Disney’s TRON Legacy.
The promotion, including the coups in getting first crack at these far-off titles, is brilliant on the network’s part. Drawing an audience for a videogame awards show in December must have its challenges. After all they have to compel gamers to pull themselves away from some pretty darn good interactive fare to sit passively in front of the program. The promise of first peeks for big games seen nowhere else is a good reason to cool down the consoles, and whether live or by DVR the games are going to benefit from a lot eyes on them by way of Spike. As for the promo clips, which in a sense are the real first impressions, are those really benefitting the games Looking at the last two glancing blows by Crackdown 2 and TRON, there are more reasons to wonder about the visual fidelity in these quick clips than get excited about the titles.
The Spike Video Game Awards takes place December 12 on Spike; check local listings.
Take a sip of Crackdown 2 at GameTrailers {link no longer active}.
