Somebody needs to tell Capcom: Chun Li now selling Chinese web game
I noticed a big Chun Li banner ad showing up in my weblog’s Google Ads, but it wasn’t advertising Super Street Fighter IV. Chun Li seems to be shilling for Kingory.com, a Flash-based RTS with a Romance of the Three Kingdoms flavor.
As near as I can tell, the web game was developed in China, and it’s not too wild a guess to suggest that they illegally scraped the Chun Li image for use in their banner ads. Combined with the advertising text (“Oriental, Extravagant, Exotic Gameplay”), Kingory seems to be marketed to grab the Asian fetishist in your life. But he or she is bound to be disappointed if the expectation is to find a lot of hot Chun Li action… as the game has “888 Heroes,” but only “26 Heroines.”
It actually looks like Kingory has its own artwork on its own pretty website, so why the advertising dep’t felt the need to steal Chun Li and pair her with questionable text is anyone’s guess.
Tags: flash, kingory, rts, street fighter, WTF?
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Does this remind you of something? Something like…this? http://negativegamer.com/2009/07/07/evony-adver…
Yeah, those Evony ads are pretty terrible.
Have you guys actually played Evony. I had to find out what this game was after seeing so many scantily clad advertisements for it. Of course, when you get into the game, there are no scantily clad women to be found. Instead, it is a simple web-based city building game, comparible to those games you would find on Facebook. Lots of grinding, and very few breasts. Evony gets the sad faced panda.
No. No one has ever played Evony.
Me play? Nope, but I did find out that one of my unemployed friends does. And he,too, likened it to a Facebook app.
Its own artwork on its own website? Funny you… look in the game tour section page 3 at http://www.kingory.com/tour3.jsp and look here http://kongming.net/9/portraits/z.php at the character named Zhang He…
Some artwork has been stolen from Romance of the Three Kingdoms 9, from Koei! Sorry for the way it sounds, but I think someone should teach those guys about respecting intellectual property, cause I don't have any respect for these kinds of practices.
Don't tell Capcom only, tell Koei too. Oh and I don't remember where, but I've seen Kungfu Panda, from Dreamworks too!