Raptor-Riding Commander Shepard Graces Old Spice Ad
"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite deodorant on the Citadel."
Old Spice clearly listened to the fan critics who said that Mass Effect 3 should have ended with its main character wielding a pair of nunchucks while riding a Rastafarian raptor. One of its newest line of online advertisements features a carbon copy of the character as part of <a href=http://flavorpatch.com/?view=preview>an elaborate prank website.
What appears to be a simple website selling flavored soul patch powder quickly turns into Isiah "Old Spice Guy" Mustafa chiding viewers for their terrible taste in facial hair. The video ends with a "visual representation" of how Old Spice will make you smell, which is apparently a Commander Shepard lookalike mounting the Raptorfarian while brandishing a pair of nunchucks.
The Mass Effect-inspired ad is part of a new online marketing campaign by Old Spice called "Interneterventions" and all follow the basic formula of offering a fake "manly" product and then Mustafa showing up to set the viewer straight. Other videos in the series include a coupon for getting a barbed wire tattoo half off with purchase of a tribal tattoo and "Brodos," condos built inside of gyms.
And while the N7 hero riding his trusty dinosaur steed into battle would have made for one heck of a scene in Mass Effect's finale, its probably not in the recent <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/131538-Update-Fan-Fixes-Mass-Effect-3-Ending-With-A-539-Page-Rewrite>539 page fan rewrite of Mass Effect 3 that was recently made public.
Source: <a href=http://flavorpatch.com/?view=preview>FlavorPatch.com
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"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite deodorant on the Citadel."
Old Spice clearly listened to the fan critics who said that Mass Effect 3 should have ended with its main character wielding a pair of nunchucks while riding a Rastafarian raptor. One of its newest line of online advertisements features a carbon copy of the character as part of <a href=http://flavorpatch.com/?view=preview>an elaborate prank website.
What appears to be a simple website selling flavored soul patch powder quickly turns into Isiah "Old Spice Guy" Mustafa chiding viewers for their terrible taste in facial hair. The video ends with a "visual representation" of how Old Spice will make you smell, which is apparently a Commander Shepard lookalike mounting the Raptorfarian while brandishing a pair of nunchucks.
The Mass Effect-inspired ad is part of a new online marketing campaign by Old Spice called "Interneterventions" and all follow the basic formula of offering a fake "manly" product and then Mustafa showing up to set the viewer straight. Other videos in the series include a coupon for getting a barbed wire tattoo half off with purchase of a tribal tattoo and "Brodos," condos built inside of gyms.
And while the N7 hero riding his trusty dinosaur steed into battle would have made for one heck of a scene in Mass Effect's finale, its probably not in the recent <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/131538-Update-Fan-Fixes-Mass-Effect-3-Ending-With-A-539-Page-Rewrite>539 page fan rewrite of Mass Effect 3 that was recently made public.
Source: <a href=http://flavorpatch.com/?view=preview>FlavorPatch.com
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