Eccentric
06-24-2005, 04:22 PM
I haven't seen anything here about this yet, so I figured I'd share it with anyone who's concerned about the hiatus being back on again. Looks like they're still keeping busy. MTV2 is going to be having another season of video mods featuring:
The Beastie Boys, Breaking Benjamin, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard, and the ubiquitous Killers will star in video mods, using assets from games like EA's NBA Street V3 and Medal of Honor 3: European Assault, Konami's Silent Hill and Dance Dance Revolution, NCsoft's Lineage II, and Valve's Half-Life 2.
Pretty much a list of bands I hate, except for the Beastie Boys (and, embarassingly, The Killers), but boy do I ever love the Beasties. Here's some relevant info from an interview on Gamespot.com:
Gamespot: Have any bands lobbied to be with a certain game?
Alex Coletti (Video Mods' Executive Producer): The Beastie Boys are coming up in the next episode, episode 2, because they're actually characters in NBA Street [V3]. So that made a lot of sense to use their characters. But other than that, not really. But with the soundtracks attached to games, I hope to come upon more situations where the game and the song are already kind of a package deal.
GS: Do you ever see a point where bands will actually just make a video mod and not bother with another video?
AC: Well, the Beastie Boys mod is the first real collaboration. The guys themselves did their own motion capture. So when you see the character moving, it's literally Adam [Horowitz aka King Ad-Rock] in the suit, you know, doing it. They're going to use it on a DVD. So, yeah, but at some point, you know, we're hoping with 50 [Cent], he might not do an actual video for one of those songs, it might just be the mod of him. You know, this was early talk, it could have changed, though. So there might come a point where stuff we're creating on the show might become "the" music video.
I'm guessing the video is going to be for Open Letter to NYC since that is the song they've got on Street v3. I'm excited they're going to be putting it on the DVD, since that means I can just buy that when it comes out rather than tuning into MTV, which I try to avoid.
Anyone interested in reading the full interview can check it out here (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/23/news_6128074.html).
Sorry if this has already been posted =[]
The Beastie Boys, Breaking Benjamin, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard, and the ubiquitous Killers will star in video mods, using assets from games like EA's NBA Street V3 and Medal of Honor 3: European Assault, Konami's Silent Hill and Dance Dance Revolution, NCsoft's Lineage II, and Valve's Half-Life 2.
Pretty much a list of bands I hate, except for the Beastie Boys (and, embarassingly, The Killers), but boy do I ever love the Beasties. Here's some relevant info from an interview on Gamespot.com:
Gamespot: Have any bands lobbied to be with a certain game?
Alex Coletti (Video Mods' Executive Producer): The Beastie Boys are coming up in the next episode, episode 2, because they're actually characters in NBA Street [V3]. So that made a lot of sense to use their characters. But other than that, not really. But with the soundtracks attached to games, I hope to come upon more situations where the game and the song are already kind of a package deal.
GS: Do you ever see a point where bands will actually just make a video mod and not bother with another video?
AC: Well, the Beastie Boys mod is the first real collaboration. The guys themselves did their own motion capture. So when you see the character moving, it's literally Adam [Horowitz aka King Ad-Rock] in the suit, you know, doing it. They're going to use it on a DVD. So, yeah, but at some point, you know, we're hoping with 50 [Cent], he might not do an actual video for one of those songs, it might just be the mod of him. You know, this was early talk, it could have changed, though. So there might come a point where stuff we're creating on the show might become "the" music video.
I'm guessing the video is going to be for Open Letter to NYC since that is the song they've got on Street v3. I'm excited they're going to be putting it on the DVD, since that means I can just buy that when it comes out rather than tuning into MTV, which I try to avoid.
Anyone interested in reading the full interview can check it out here (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/23/news_6128074.html).
Sorry if this has already been posted =[]