Scene It? Cheesiest Gaming Commercial Ever?

Gothic Girl | October 25, 2007 | Video | XBOX 360

Let's completely ignore the gaming commercials of the late 80s and early 90s because, let's face it, you don't get much cheesier than that! But what about nowadays? Surely gaming commercials have become more "serious" since then?
... Maybe not! Microsoft has managed to out-cheese themselves with the new Scene It? commercial, which looks like it's been plucked directly from a 90s sitcom. Awww, so corny! So full of cheese!

"Alright, so it's Friday night and I'm a eunuch, and I'm all about having my friends over just like a mid 90's sitcom. You know, kicking back, dancing stupid, trying to look deep by playing my acoustic guitar. PLAYING SCENE IT ON THE XBOX 360!!!

And then we get competitive. And someone dies."

This is one of the worst commercials I have ever "scene." The worst part about video games going mainstream is that they try to appeal to *gulp* the general public.

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Zero and X | October 26, 2007

That was not as bad as the 80's NES commercials, but it was still pretty cheese.
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Gogetenks | October 26, 2007

That's true, this is much cheesier.

Pretty depressing commercial, though. At least the Zelda commercial was cheesy in a funny way, this commercial bored me. It was pretty funny at first though, since he seemed ridiculously excited, but it got dull quickly after.
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  BANDITO ATTACK | October 27, 2007
  
  NICE GRAPHICS
  
  :}
  
  i only watched about 20 seconds of this commercial.
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Unity | October 26, 2007

That was boring, to the point of nausea.

Cheesey, yes. Waste of time, yes. Attention grabber? No. This game will get very little recognition with lame commercials and some resemblances to the actual DVD version. This is just a repeat of the actual game.
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Alvaroduck | October 26, 2007

Jeez...that WAS cheesy. Most of it was just them talking.

Besides, no one's gonna buy a 360 when they can just play the DVD version...
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Jaw Knee | October 26, 2007

Tommy Boy is hilarious, but this game looks like the epitome of suck.
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Dance Floor Killah | October 27, 2007

Oh gee, this commercial makes me want to go out and buy Scene It.

That was horrid.
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Kazooieman | October 27, 2007

Lol... wasn't a normal Scene It game enough... they had to ruin that series by putting it on the X-Box 360...

For shame Microsoft! Crappy commercial to!
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Final Blade | October 27, 2007

quote
And then we get competitive. And someone dies."
Um no one died here

Anyway Its not that bad i kinda like it to be honest. It tests your knowledge of movies Kinda reminds me of jeopardy for movies.

Hey hate this comment all you want but i saw nothing cheesy or wrong with this commercial.
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  Ekou | October 28, 2007
  
  Truthfully, there really wasn't. It was just bland. Honestly though, not very much that could be done for this..game?
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    Final Blade | October 28, 2007
    
    Not everything will have spice or a flavor, you just gotta accept that, but good attempt though MS.
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      Ekou | October 28, 2007
      
      It's not as bad as their original 360 commercial for Japan. They had a bunch of pop stars singing about their love for the system.
      
      This is indeed a step up, overall, in marketing.