Hasta La Creative!

This is an anti-violence campaign, that ironically promoting the extremely violent game Condemned 2 on Xbox 360.

Condemned 2 is the second title in the series. In the game you are Ethan Thomas, a disgraced member of the Serial Crimes Unit who is unstable and one drink short of self destruction. The game includes brutal in your face combat including combo attacks and over the top “finishing moves”. The game is most definitely not mainstream, it is for a niche audience of ‘hardcore’ gamers.

The communication challenge: find a fresh and engaging way to connect with the target, who are used to companies just re-skinning a site with game footage, and, think they have seen everything there is to see when it comes to the ‘shoot‘em-up’ genre.

Hardcore Gamers (typically male), 18-30yo. Tend to be cynical, curious by nature, like problem solving and challenges, and spend their life in the online gaming world.

We know that playing Condemned 2 is a brutal, blunt experience and it seems that Sega does too. OffSetTheEvil.com allows you to balance your karma by “offsetting the evil” much like you would with your carbon footprint. Thankfully, offsetting evil doesn’t cost a penny – instead you simply need to explore the sickly sweet saturday-morning cartoon of a website.

Once there you can make yourself feel less wicked by playing a ridiculous flash game involving helping horse across a river. Don’t worry if they fall in, though. They still love you! If that’s not for you then explore the Forest of Fairy Flowers, with hidden links to sites which will teach you to dance or show videos of the Teletubbies. There’s plenty more content to reduce your sin footprint included on the site. If you can handle it, that is.

The creative execution is made up of 3 x virals ‘Pony Heart Quest’, ‘Clown Flower Time’ and ‘Lollipop Gift Parade’. These virals drive you to the website www.offsettheevil.com. Once on the website you can play 3 x games based on the virals.

Online banners are also going to be run on IGN.com and Gamespot. One of the banners (300 x 600) is going to be a game in itself called Panda Rainbow Delight.

It remind me a little of “Happy Tree Friends” but the purpose is different.

Many thanks to Giorgi Ciot for sending these creative materials.

AGENCY TEAM:
Creative Team – Michael Dawson, Chris Berents
Executive CD: Richard Maddocks, Associate CD: Guy Rooke
Account Service – AM: Adam Levee, GAD: Rob Nichol
Digital Designer – Brett Bimson, Kevin Phillips
Designer – Gustavo Vampre
TV producer – Denise McKeon
Digital Producer – Harley Tesoriero
Editor – Joe Morris
Sound Design – Andrew Stevenson
PRODUCTION HOUSE:
Yukfoo Animation, Auckland
Director – Julian Stokoe
Producer – Glen Real

MUSIC:
Liquid Studios, Auckland
Creative Director – Peter Van Der Fluit
Composer – Max Scott
Engineer – Matt Scott
Producer – Dee Taylor