An African American's Perspective
on the 2006 Spike TV (VGA) video game awards show
by blackSoftware.com 12/16/2006 | contact usToday the "Afro Samurai" TV show character took the stage with a loaded gun to host the 2006 Video Game Awards (VGA) show today, before Samuel L. Jackson, an African American media trail blazer, announced there will be a video game for sale like it. The AfroSamurai TV show on Spike TV goes live new year's night.
Namco has the exclusive interactive entertainment rights to "Afro Samurai." The agreement gives Namco rights to publish two different "Afro Samurai" video games over the next five years.
This review is about the Spike TV sponsored live-action feature film with Samuel L. Jackson to star as the title character and co-producer. Film. Game? Sure!
An AfroSamurai video game would have a steep climb up the hill to unseat the 2006 VGA BEST FIGHTING GAME category winner - “Mortal Kombat Armageddon” by Midway Games. And, next year we can expect the return of the games: “Tekken: Dark Resurrection” by Namco Bandai; “Dead or Alive 4” by Tecmo/Team Ninja; “Street Fighter Alpha Anthology” by Capcom, and “God Hand” by Capcom/Clover Studio, to compete for the VGA 2007 best fighting game award category.The sound tracks are good. Watching the Afro Samurai preview video short is entertaining. Warriors stare down each other on rocky mountain turf that looks like black and white Mars planet geography.
In Afro Samurai, characters use the word mother@!%#@ a lot. The Afro Samurai show preview entered “nice hair” characters, interesting metal self offense tools and filled in silent space backgrounds with metal music, some other good urban beats and very very nice drum verses.
Hit the play button to see the AfroSamurai preview on blackSoftware.com's YouTube include.
THE AFROSAMURAI VIDEO
blackSoftware.com recommends buying the
Afro Samurai video game when available
* * for mature audiences only * *
A Spike TV original, the 2006 VGA Video Game Awards staff included: Casey Patterson, Executive Producer, Bruce Rodgers, Production Designer; Scott Fishman, Executive in Charge of Production. The show host was Samuel L. Jackson.
The show flowed into the first award category presenter. Rapper 50 Cent appeared. Struggling with the teleprompter, he eventually announced the nominees for the Best Female Person in a video game. Then skater athlete Tony Hawk co-presented the Best Supporting Male Performance in a Video Game category and James Gandollini of the Sopranos won.
The BEST TEAM SPORTS GAME category was awarded to NBA2K7 by 2K Sports/Visual Concepts. An African American took the stage to scoop TROPHY. He thanked his company employees for their contributions in creating a top slot sports game pick. His company beat out Madden NFL 07, NCAA Football 07, FIFA 07, and NHL 07./p>
THE 2006 BEST VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR award went to Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, beating out: Gears of War (Microsoft and Big Games), Guitar Hero II by Red Octane/ Harmonix and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter.
VGA sponsor Pontiac asked everyone to check out their web site to try winning a 2007 G7 GT by participating in their NCAA basketball tournament online.
Mountain Dew “do the dew” commercials ran. The US Air Force commercial starred a black pilot flying high 27,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. “Experience more and do something amazing” was the byline.
Verizon Wireless displayed their Chocolate phone: part MP3 player, part phone. Burger King ran XBOX commercials.
Vehix.com ran “shopping should be fun” click autos on Comcast.net spots. Bassettfurniture.com told us they are “the” one-stop furniture design store. Spikes Game Head tv show comes back to Fridays at 1:00 a.m. with new episodes in January.
The band Yellow Card presented the Studio Of The Year award category. Epic Games won it with "GEARS OF WAR." Then a sponsored segment announced the winners for the Best Fighting Game, Best Shooting Game, Best Graphics, Best Handheld Game, Best Role Playing Game, Best PC Game, and Best MultiPlayer Game categories.
Tyrese and Method Man appeared. Hard rock music metal music clips introduced most of the presenters. Fashion girls made statement. There were many commercials to support the show. Some of them were: Guitar Hero Two unlease your inner rockstar; Jarrett Selections Jewelry the one and only galleria of jewelr; 007 Days of Christmas comes back to Spike TV, Casino Cinema “The Enforcer” show is on Tuesday at 9pm only on SpikeTV.
The Air Force ran a commercial about robots and X6 ability to disarm bombs while inviting you to sign up. Circuit City boosted the Mary J Blidge and Friends album named “Reflections.” National Geographic asked you to watch their show: “The Secret Life of Jesus” on their Channel 210.
Ghostface Killer and Method Man talked about the Wiii then announced the winner for BEST INDIVDUAL SPORTS GAME which was won by none other than Tony Hawk against others which included: Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, EA Sports Fight Night Round III…Tony Hawk gave thanks to Activision for believing that a skateboard should be in a video game when he accepted the 2006 Best Individual Sports Game of the year award beating out Tiger Wood PGA Tour 07 by EA Redwood, Top Spin 2 and others.
The #1 Billboard band ALI played. Their music was good but I thought the musicians looked weak and thin; like vampires. Tyrese and somebody – come out to announced the BEST SONG in a video game category and it was “Lights and Sounds” by Yellow Card and Burnout Revenge. Others nominated were: Summer Shudder, Heavenly Star, Helicopter, and LocoRoco No Uta (Japan)
The HEROES TV SHOW star presented and she looked great and relaxed. She spoke to the audience about how addictive video games are. “Just look at the confused faces when you ask a kid to name a book such by Hemmingway.” she said. The MOST ADDICTIVE GAME winner was “The Elder Scrolls Four Oblivion” and it beat “Brain Age Train Your Brain in Minutes a day by Nintendo, “Gears of War,” “Guitar Hero Two,” and “Company of Heroes.”
Sarah Silverman – appeared billed as the world’ funniest hot chick. Her segment was very very very very very strange. She said she has organs in her lower torso that fake video game women don’t. She announced that she is a real live woman. She spoke directly to serious gamers who are over 15, calling them with comments like: your pathetic call of duty, your hair smells like headset hair.
She told them they should be getting an award in AIDS prevention and because of them a company plans to drop 5 million video game consoles on Africa. She said the gamers sit down, do nothing but play games all day--making her case that that will abolish the AIDs disease. But, she then called those she was mocking heroes.
It was a comedy skit, right?
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