The Citizen Soapbox is an area where we throw out topics to the users of Citizen Game. When we record the podcast on Sunday night we take the previous week’s Soapbox answers and use them in our own discussions. We think it’s a great way of involving you guys in our stupid arguments!
The Setup:
This week No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani decided to take legal action against Activision for the apparent misuse of her likeness in their latest release Band Hero. A couple of months back, Courtney Love made similar allegations when her ex-husband, Kurt Cobain’s likeness was used in Guitar Hero 5.
The Question:
If you could have any singer / sportsman / actor or general famous-person misused in a game franchise what would it be? How about:
Michael Jackson as a zombie in Left 4 dead?
Boris Johnson playable in FIFA?
Gary Glitter as a babysitter in The Sims 3?
Be creative Citizens!
Click RB and LB together for Boris's famous German-Spear.
The guys from Brokencycle to do a Guitar Hero commercial.
Michael j Fox – Trauma Center
Retro special moves in FIFA:
Eric Cantona’s karate kick.
Roy Keane’s double leg-breaking tackle.
Achievements for winning “Senna style” in the next F1 game. Basically driving your championship rival off the road at the first corner.
And just because, given Activision’s track record this wouldn’t be too much of a surprise… Ian Curtis playable in the next Guitar Hero.
“That Level” from Modern Warfare 2 set in the X-Factor studios would be satisfying.
Kerry Katona as cooking mamma
Christopher Walken as Professor Layton.
How about Amy Winehouse as a zomb…oh wait.
oh and, an award ceremony game. When you try to play Kanye West enters your property and interrupts your gameplay.
Lady Gaga as a prostitute in the next GTA release with a gruff man’s voice.
Mozart’s piano hero
Elisabeth Fritzl’s basement escape 4
(side scroller with pregnancy game mechanics)
Josef Fritzl as a construction contracter for bombshelters in the sims 3
Stephen Hawking in an olympics game
Stevie Wonder in Sniper Elite
Patrick swazy in l4d2
A third person adventure game of the tayto man off tayto packets.
-I want the next Modern Warfare to have Soap fight against Scientoligists, and at the end you throw a knife in Tom Cruise’s head. His dying words are: “GOOSE!!!”
-Zidane Zidane in Fifa ’11 and you can headbutt players, but only with Zidane.
-Mel Gibson in the next GTA, and when you drink too much, you get pulled over by the cops for drunk driving and you can hear his rant on the Jews.
-Glenn Beck in the next Command and Conquer game, where he is a hero class fighting against the Soviets. At the end though, he should be eaten by a bear.
-Dick Cheney in duck hunter where you can ‘accidentally’ shoot him in the face.
That’s all I got.
Christopher Walken as the sombre voice of reason after you pump 100′s of bullets into Brazilian militia in MW2.
“This FAMAS was given to me by my grand-daddy. He kept it up his ass for 10 years”
Pure beauty
Chuck Norris in SSF4, to take on Fei Long as Bruce Lee.
Also I’m thinking there is definatly a spot for Jason Statham in Gears 3.
Oh and of course Barney for the next Dino Crisis or Turok!
How about Rihanna and Chris Brown in Fight Night Round 4.
Id also love Jordan (Katie Price) as the bonus-level car in Street Fighter 2. I’d love to score points for kicking her repeatedly.