The Most Controversial Video Game Ads of All Time -- page 2

GameShark


Check out those choppers!

Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi was on the cover of our December 1997 issue. The cover, however, was a gatefold that opened out and to the right, displaying a GameShark ad. The issue didn't come inside a polybag (one of those annoying plastic bags that encapsulates the game mag), and the glue that held the gatefold didn't always last. The result? The main cover image transformed into that of a pistol-packin' woman with freakishly pointy teeth adorned in strips of toilet paper. Tres chic!

Nanotek Warrior


If this doesn't give you the screaming meemees, we don't know what will

Nanotek Warrior for the original PlayStation was about as sanitized a space shooter you could find, something reflected in the game's Kids-to-Adults ESRB rating. However, this one-page print ad never fails to send chills down readers' spines. It's just nasty. The Hitman ad just pales in comparison, if you ask us...and it's more appropriate when you consider that Hitman is at least rated "Mature."

Hitman: Blood Money


courtesy Joystiq and PC Gamer

Though it never appeared in GamePro magazine -- at least, not yet -- we just had to include this current ad for Hitman: Blood Money. If nothing else, Eidos's reputation for courting controversy sure hasn't mellowed with age.

What do you think of the current Hitman ad controversy? Got any memorable advertising controversies of your own? Sound off in the forums!

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