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Bike Hero: the best viral marketing game video ever?

I'd have to say so. Of course, I'm assuming it is marketing. Somehow I don't see a regular fan out there:
-Pulling this off
-Writing the full title of the recently "Guitar Hero: World Tour" in such big letters at the beginning
-Being inspired by "GH: WT," planning this, and producing it all in the span of three weeks

Nonetheless, I don't really care. It's truly awesome. And I'm probably encouraging Activision's marketing plan by posting the video here for free. They deserve it.

Update: According to Creativity Online (per GameCyte), it was indeed an ad agency, called Droga5, which made this vid. Shocker!

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coffee fiend

they totally got me; now i wanna go play guitar hero

Guerilla Marketer

Cool, thanks for this post!

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