Retailer Breaks GTAIV Street Date!
No, not really. It’s still April you fool. Even though April Fool’s Day has passed, the video game related pranks from that day have remained a much discussed topic on many of the gaming podcasts I listen to. The discussions have made me sad that I didn’t go forward with any of my prank ideas. I didn’t blog any here, because I felt it might have been a bit pretentious for a new writer. But that won’t stop me from sharing my top three April Fool’s story ideas with you!
#1 SEARS & K-MART STORES BREAK GTAIV STREET DATE
To do this story right, I would have precisely cut my GTAIV preorder box from Best Buy pictured in this post, and carefully placed it into a regular green Xbox 360 game box. I would have also manufactured some clueless quote from the assistant manager of a Toledo, OH area K-Mart store. Something to the effect of, “What do you mean street date? Listen, here’s how it works buddy. Product comes on a truck, we put it on a shelf, people buy it. If they don’t want us to sell their game yet they shouldn’t send it to us yet.”
#2 SIXAXIS MOTION CONTROL “ONLY CONTROL OPTION” ON PS3 GTAIV
This one would have broken the hearts of the more gullible Sony fanboys out there. The story would have featured an idiotic quote from Sony talking about how they asked Rockstar North to make these changes in the PS3 version of the game to distinguish it from the 360 version. “We wanted to build on the success of the control scheme in Factor 5′s “Lair”, the Sony rep would have said, “to drive a car in GTAIV, you get to hold the sixaxis controller in front of you like a steering wheel!” The coup de gr√¢ce in this story would have been the revelation that these changes made to the PS3 version were the cause of the game’s delay.
#3 UBISOFT TO USE “TOM CLOWNY‚Ñ¢” NAME TO MARKET NEW LINE OF KIDZ GAMES
In order to recoup some of the 30 million dollars spent for the Tom Clancy‚Ñ¢ name, Ubisoft is making “slight modifications” to their new moniker so it will fit with a new line of casual games. “Everyone loves a clown,” says the soulless Ubisoft rep, “so we have Tom Clancy‚Ñ¢ for hardcore gamers, and Tom Clowny‚Ñ¢ for everyone else.”
The first titles slated for release under the Tom Clowny‚Ñ¢ name include “Armadillo’s Creed”, “Rodent Recon, Advanced Squirrel Fighter”, and of course, “Tom Clowny’s‚Ñ¢ H.A.W.K.”, a bird adventure game.
