third person shooter
Porn Star Tera Patrick's Saints Row 2 'Developer' 'Commentary'
Posted by Michael McWhertor at 8:40 AM on July 31, 2008
THQ has tapped porn star Tera Patrick to do something within the vicinity of its upcoming sandbox-style action-adventure game Saints Row 2, hoping to lure in a few more buyers still wowed by almost seeing some giant fake tits. In the first "dev diary", Ms. Patrick says some things about the Saints Row series while taking her clothes off, with gameplay footage edited in for good measure. This teaser is mostly interesting for the fact that you can wear a hot dog suit in Saints Row 2.
The potentially NSFW clip is after the jump for your safety.
A high-res version awaits you at IGN.

Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
GaryBusey
Posted July 31, 2008 1:27 PM
Tera Patrick is about as attractive as a rolled back foreskin. Yeah, I liked this campaign footage about as much as I enjoyed watching her 'do porn' with her chode wielding husband, Evan Seinfeld. Classy.
DONAR
Posted July 31, 2008 10:32 PM
"THQ has tapped porn star Tera Patrick..."
They're not the first.
topaz420
Posted 9:20 AM 31/7/08
Wow, so much bile and cynicism in this thread!
1) Did it tell me something I didn't know?
Yes, I didn't know about co-op and got to look at some new gameplay footage.
2) Is Tera nice to look at?
Yes, said gameplay shots were intercut with the beautiful Tera in various states of undress and sultry looks.
All this, wrapped in an A.D.D.-safe 90 second package.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
Now where's that pre-boob-job *****pie video I have of her?
topaz420
mernmern
Posted 9:20 AM 31/7/08
Why so much hate? It kept me interested and it showed what might be a fun over the top game. A Borat ball hugger, a hot dog suit, a guy thrown into a jet engine, and what might have been a ninja suit all make it pretty entertaining and when combined with a real world/porn world tease, well it worked on multiple levels. Heck, in a sense she is a modern day E3 booth babe... albeit a randy one.
mernmern
Coquiton
Posted 9:20 AM 31/7/08
Holy crap...
Shooting a LMG from a inside helicopter?
Riding a motorcycle with a katana in one hand (ninja motorcycle calvary!)?
Throwing people into jet engines?
This game keeps getting better and better everytime I hear about it! I can not wait for this game to come out.
Coquiton
Omniel
Posted 9:19 AM 31/7/08
How can bad acting make you horny? and a hollow attitude?
Omniel
tok1879
Posted 9:18 AM 31/7/08
Yay!!! i've always wanted to see her half naked...
/sarcasm
tok1879
ghnvt
Posted 9:18 AM 31/7/08
This was a great marketing decision, I do love me some GTA clones (good ones that is)
ghnvt
CockroachMan
Posted 9:16 AM 31/7/08
Really.. what's the point of it!?
CockroachMan
Turambar
Posted 9:16 AM 31/7/08
@arepeegee: So Saints Row 2 is a Reese's Cup?
Turambar
bigman88zz
Posted 9:13 AM 31/7/08
@slyzxx786: ava hasnt been the same since she got her implants taken out
bigman88zz
Sinfwho
Posted 9:13 AM 31/7/08
@3inst3in: What is this the 80's? There's a ton of different kinds of porn stars now, so moot point now. And please drop the act, everyone watches porn whether they like it or not.
Sinfwho
boy78
Posted 9:11 AM 31/7/08
Just wow? The game in anyways look like more much of animation :-|
boy78
Kazama Sogetsu
Posted 9:11 AM 31/7/08
If a game needs that kind of advertisement, you can safely assume it's awful.
Kazama Sogetsu
DarthHater1137
Posted 9:10 AM 31/7/08
@VergessenHeld: If this sort of promo offends you then you would not have bought this game anyway...
DarthHater1137
bigman88zz
Posted 9:10 AM 31/7/08
@Stevedroid: its nice to know someone else on kotaku knows of linsey dawn mckenzie, ines, and merilyn :p
bigman88zz
arepeegee
Posted 9:07 AM 31/7/08
I don't see what the big deal is, video games and porn go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
arepeegee
Murdermonkey
Posted 9:07 AM 31/7/08
@BlackANUS:
They are no longer real ...havent been for a while.
Im a buyer for a chain of adult video stores. They are however one of the few fake sets that look natural.
Murdermonkey
thegforceman
Posted 9:06 AM 31/7/08
video games and porn, match made in heaven
thegforceman
Stevedroid
Posted 9:06 AM 31/7/08
@jeembomb: Well more like reasonably niced sized natural tits. She's no Lindsey, Ines, Merilyn/Anna, etc...
Stevedroid
OGHowie
Posted 9:04 AM 31/7/08
@ChewyChew:
How do they hide the scars then?
OGHowie
Jnkzm4
Posted 9:02 AM 31/7/08
WOW!!! Way to appeal to lil horny teenage boys
Jnkzm4
Master_Achilles
Posted 9:01 AM 31/7/08
I guess it's becoming a lot easier to become a game developer nowadays. I truly wish gaming was still for nerds.
Master_Achilles
3inst3in
Posted 8:59 AM 31/7/08
i really don't see what people find attractive about porn stars. and i don't buy the "they fulfill the fantasy of ideal woman" argument. becasue if you fantasize about colagen liposuction silicon and botox and fake orgasms are your ideal, then there is something seriously wrong with you.
3inst3in
Michael McWhertor
Posted 8:58 AM 31/7/08
@noelix: I saw the line and that was enough for me. I'm surprised that so many folks queued up to see her with her clothes *on*!
Michael McWhertor
slyzxx786
Posted 8:58 AM 31/7/08
Might as well got Ava Devine that's nasty + Insane.
slyzxx786
VergessenHeld
Posted 8:58 AM 31/7/08
This little promo clip is the sort of shit that makes me say "I'm not buying this game."
That was tasteless as all hell. Sell me a game, not some porn diva's next movie.
VergessenHeld
Crosswayboy
Posted 8:58 AM 31/7/08
@exkon: Dude, I'll save you the trouble: www.terapatrick.com
Crosswayboy
jeembomb
Posted 8:58 AM 31/7/08
..."seeing some giant fake tits"
They used to be giant natural tits. Those days are gone now.
jeembomb
ChewyChew
Posted 8:57 AM 31/7/08
BLASPHEMY! Everyone knows porn stars dont wear bras!
All talk and no skin ;_;
ChewyChew
Arklop
Posted 8:56 AM 31/7/08
I don't see why I would pay $60 for her game when videos of her better "work" are free. For that matter, there's better work than hers out there and it's free too.
Arklop
Laho
Posted 8:55 AM 31/7/08
I'll have to give this a score of four tasteless/5.
I'm on the fence about what's worst between this or the Gary Busey clips.
Laho
exkon
Posted 8:55 AM 31/7/08
Damn it..
I was expecting more sexual innuendos in commentary...
Don't disappoint me with the next Tera!!!
exkon
noelix
Posted 8:55 AM 31/7/08
@McWherton - did you SEE the friggin security they had at Comic-Con for this woman? A red-shirt guy every two feet in front of a roped-off, closed down THQ booth, yelling at people to keep moving. Insane.
noelix
maniacmayhem
Posted 8:55 AM 31/7/08
@Fadakar:
I don't think that's his personal opinion on muslims. He's refering to what Tera Patrick said in the past.
(i think)
maniacmayhem
Billkwando
Posted 8:54 AM 31/7/08
"Tapped"
Nice one, McWhertor!
Billkwando
BlackANUS
Posted 8:54 AM 31/7/08
It should be noted that Ms. Patrick (though she is married) does not have fake jubblies.
BlackANUS
Xuchilbara
Posted 8:53 AM 31/7/08
@Tom Clancy's Samuraidino: Wow, best comment ever? Gary Busey FTW.... I wish they would bring back "Im with Busey" :(
Xuchilbara
Fadakar
Posted 8:52 AM 31/7/08
@slyzxx786: Lol ban much?
Fadakar
Amun-Ra
Posted 8:51 AM 31/7/08
Marketing with sex in the most sleazy sense.
Amun-Ra
PsycheE
Posted 8:51 AM 31/7/08
She must be full, full from eating the PROMPTER.
no?
PsycheE
JustEaton
Posted 8:51 AM 31/7/08
That was pretty hot, but I'm still not buyin' it.
JustEaton
Sean Noonan
Posted 8:51 AM 31/7/08
SIGH
Sean Noonan
Punkateer
Posted 8:50 AM 31/7/08
@Swedomu: This has to stop. It seems to be increasing. There was only one way to screwup a post with Tera Patrick and you my mouth-breathing luddite figured out how to do it.
Punkateer
Crosswayboy
Posted 8:50 AM 31/7/08
Wow. I wonder how they managed to convince Ms. Patrick to take her clothes off for the camera...
But remind me again why GTA takes all the blame for violent games when shit like this exists? It seems like THQ is trying to see how low they can possibly go with this franchise.
You'll get there eventually, Volition. Just keep diggin'!
Crosswayboy
OGHowie
Posted 8:50 AM 31/7/08
Borat swimsuit. Nicceeeeeee.
OGHowie
DaveKap
Posted 8:49 AM 31/7/08
@Michael McWhertor: You guys should do what fark.com does and change the time of the comment to 1 year in the future so the comment is actually always last. I dunno why but I always got a kick out of that.
DaveKap
maniacmayhem
Posted 8:48 AM 31/7/08
@slyzxx786:
And who refuses to do....*whispers*black guys...
maniacmayhem
SmokeFemur
Posted 8:48 AM 31/7/08
perhaps more money should have been allocated to gameplay rather than a porn star
i guess well have to wait for the game to come out
SmokeFemur
DaveKap
Posted 8:48 AM 31/7/08
@Swedomu: B4NNED OMG
Considering my friend is working for Volition which has THQ as its publisher, I am totally railing on him for this.
DaveKap
ƒox
Posted 8:48 AM 31/7/08
@Swedomu: And last.
ƒox
slyzxx786
Posted 8:47 AM 31/7/08
@maniacmayhem: +1 on lily Thai
slyzxx786
Moonshadow101
Posted 8:47 AM 31/7/08
@maniacmayhem: You frighten me.
Moonshadow101
icegoat
Posted 8:47 AM 31/7/08
@Swedomu: yeah nice. Bye bye.
icegoat
Tom Clancy's Samuraidino
Posted 8:47 AM 31/7/08
Why couldnt they have jsut gotten gary busey to do that instead.It would have been a lot more entertaining.
Tom Clancy's Samuraidino
Michael McWhertor
Posted 8:47 AM 31/7/08
@Swedomu: And last! A two-fer!
Michael McWhertor
maniacmayhem
Posted 8:47 AM 31/7/08
@Swedomu:
Just wow.
Anyways...
I'm really looking foward to Saints Row 2, but they should've tapped Lily Thai not Tera.
In fact I should tap Lily Thai...
maniacmayhem
SmokeFemur
Posted 8:46 AM 31/7/08
im glad both were in quotations
SmokeFemur
slyzxx786
Posted 8:46 AM 31/7/08
Thats all sr2 needs is a nasty whore who`s been plowed more than few hundred times by diffrent men, Who btw also thinks all Muslims are alqeada.
slyzxx786
thekirby45
Posted 8:46 AM 31/7/08
I feel funny in the pants?
thekirby45
Swedomu
Posted 8:45 AM 31/7/08
F1RST OMG
Swedomu
QB8Young
Posted 9:45 AM 31/7/08
@maniacmayhem: Lily Thai plus Jasmine Mai equals the best Mai Thai EVAR!
QB8Young
ryno365
Posted 9:42 AM 31/7/08
wow. i just cant stop watching this video
ryno365
Nik in NOLA
Posted 9:41 AM 31/7/08
Gaming Marketing 101, lesson plan 3: Surefire way to get people interested in your shitty game is to throw some model/porn star/any quasi-attractive female into the pre-release promotional efforts. Doesn't matter that they can google hardcore shots, nude shots, or even dirty SA web comics, you'll get a bunch of posts at enthusiast sites/boards/blogs/whereever saying "OMG HOTTT." Your game could be "shit on a stick 3: the revenge" and the addition of a set of tits anywhere will help it sell.
And people wonder why the gaming industry is considered some boys only club.
Nik in NOLA
Lethal_Dosage
Posted 9:40 AM 31/7/08
@bigman88zz:
Indeed. Ava is just a wreck now.
I like Tera a lot, so I'm definitely not disappointed with this development. The game looks solid, too, which is a plus. It'll offer the customization GTA IV was lacking, as well as a (hopefully) humorous story and ridiculous action.
The problem with SR was that it was a really solid game, but it only existed to tide us over until the next GTA. The great thing about SR 2 is that while it'll no doubt be very similar to GTA, it'll be a totally different type of gameplay experience. Think what Madden is to Blitz.
Lethal_Dosage
dead_red_eyes
Posted 9:29 AM 31/7/08
@DaveKap:
Haha, I'm doing the same exact thing!
dead_red_eyes
karaquazian
Posted 9:24 AM 31/7/08
I thought the gameplay they showed, coupled with how awesome the last game was, was great. Already looks more exciting than GTA4. Oh and all you that don't like woman taking off their clothes...some thing's wrong with you. We live in a culture that glorifies and sells things based on that lowest common denominator...it's not new. Billy Hicks is rolling over in his grave.
karaquazian
HaydenTenno
Posted 9:23 AM 31/7/08
Looks like Volition and THQ are desperate.
HaydenTenno
Kprimed
Posted 9:22 AM 31/7/08
when did this turn into fleshbot?
Kprimed
KaneRobot
Posted 9:22 AM 31/7/08
Couldn't you wear a hot dog suit in the first one? I may be confusing it with the people in hot dog costumes I ran over.
KaneRobot
Omniel
Posted 10:05 AM 31/7/08
I quess thier marketing target is pathetic loosers, who actually let cheap marketing sway thier influence?
Omniel
Omniel
Posted 10:03 AM 31/7/08
they probaly paid her more than thier dev team, some call it cool I call it desperate marketing, and makes the game seem like its all gimic.
We are glorifing pornstars now? whats the world coming to?
Omniel
kidko
Posted 10:02 AM 31/7/08
This is actually a funny response to Jade Raymond-gate.
The internet can gleefully make spooge-toons about SR2's "producer" without harming her feelings! She'd likely be flattered.
kidko
SigmundTheSeaMonster
Posted 9:57 AM 31/7/08
@LoganForge: Yeah, Give me Jenna haze, Faye Valentine, Lexi Belle and Sasha Grey...in some big Sandbox game...who cares!!!
SigmundTheSeaMonster
okenny :( ... not sure what to believe in anymore
Posted 9:57 AM 31/7/08
Pornstars have never been attractive to me personally. She isn't helping this condition of mine either :(
okenny :( ... not sure what to believe in anymore
kagebutsu
Posted 9:53 AM 31/7/08
@slyzxx786: Wow..... words can't even describe how ignorant your comment is.
kagebutsu
gothamdarkknight
Posted 9:51 AM 31/7/08
@Nik in NOLA:
Why are you so angry?
When a game is created, it is created towards a target demographics, and marketed so.
It's only when you create a game for the lulz and don't know who would want to play it, you target it to the "casual" market.
gothamdarkknight
Robotube
Posted 9:50 AM 31/7/08
Her hand looks like a roast chicken.
Robotube
Ness
Posted 9:49 AM 31/7/08
Who's Tera Patrick? Teen idol? Anyway are we really expecting a pornstar to do ANYTHING in the game but show us those Xmas gifts? This isn't GEX you can't put a women in a game and make her smart and sexy anymore.
Ness
LoganForge
Posted 9:48 AM 31/7/08
oh my gawds... if this game sells well, it wont be long before we see jenna haze and the likes in our video games. :D
LoganForge
Cryterra
Posted 10:31 AM 31/7/08
Was that meant to be sexy? I thought it was hilarious but not sexy.
SR2 is a must-rent for me. I don't buy games.
Cryterra
Sunjammer
Posted 10:20 AM 31/7/08
Dumbest fucking idea Volition ever had. So unbearably dumb and transparent it makes me cringe in the FUTURE in addition to now. Also i cringed in the past. Ultimate cringe. What the fuck.
Sunjammer
dragon
Posted 10:17 AM 31/7/08
No subtlety there. At least she no longer sound like a transvestite.
dragon
lordargent
Posted 10:17 AM 31/7/08
I can't wait to throw people into jet engines.
lordargent
Sam Smith
Posted 10:13 AM 31/7/08
This is so wierd. So, so wierd.
Sam Smith
EvilMetsFan
Posted 10:12 AM 31/7/08
Ps3 is getting this isn't it?
EvilMetsFan
3inst3in
Posted 10:11 AM 31/7/08
@Sinfwho: oh , no, don't get me wrong. i love porn. perhaps i was to general in terminology. by "pornstars" i meant the big name mega pornstars. your jenna jamesons if you will. they jsut don't look like they're real.
3inst3in
resvrgam
Posted 10:59 AM 31/7/08
Here's a better clip:
+ Watch video
Honestly, Idiocracy is now. :(
resvrgam
HaydenTenno
Posted 10:57 AM 31/7/08
I'd prefer a hot chick that doesn't get paid to nail 3 dudes at a time.
HaydenTenno
RubberChickenMX
Posted 10:52 AM 31/7/08
DAMN!
RubberChickenMX
Nik in NOLA
Posted 10:43 AM 31/7/08
@gothamdarkknight:
Because its sophomoric strategies like this that keep the entire industry from being accepted as a legit work. Its hard to say that the industry as a whole is breaking ground and expanding past the cliche' of games being solely for teenage boys when this type of marketing is the 'norm' and not the exception. If your game can't sell on the merits, it probably shouldn't have been greenlit in the first place.
I have the same problem when Ubisoft parades Jade whatsherface around not because she's a good producer but because she's moderately attractive. I somehow doubt they'd take the same approach if she had the same bodymass as Gabe Newell from Valve.
I also have the same problem with booth babes, beer advertisments, cheerleaders and garbage like that. Modern E3 to me is actually less bullcrap than it was when they allowed all the kids and boothbabes and laserlightshow crap.
Maybe I'm cranky and mentally 50 years older than my physical age. Or maybe I'd rather see games marketed on their merits instead of a set of tits.
Nik in NOLA
MetalGearMax
Posted 10:37 AM 31/7/08
I have a boner. Thanks.
MetalGearMax
mtora83
Posted 10:36 AM 31/7/08
Sex sells...
mtora83
damienk
Posted 11:25 AM 31/7/08
We already know that this kind of thing does NOT make a crap game sell... BMX XXX anyone?
Does it "damage video games as an art form"?
I'm not sure it does, it simply damages the reputation of "Saints Row" as an art form, and even then only to anyone who feels that anything overtly sexual is instantly kicked from the ranks of "art".
Was "American Pie" art?
damienk
wanion
Posted 11:24 AM 31/7/08
@M-26-7: I actually liked Picasso's last game.
Also, give poor Tera a chance. She did some great work scripting AI for Bioshock. Didn't know that, did you? Well it's "true!"
wanion
karaquazian
Posted 11:14 AM 31/7/08
sorry should have this also
+ Watch video
karaquazian
karaquazian
Posted 11:13 AM 31/7/08
@Nik in NOLA:
when your industry is pushing 100's of billions of dollars a year I think you can call it legit.
end of story...need more??
karaquazian
rodrigo47
Posted 11:08 AM 31/7/08
tera patrick is overrated. she looks nothing like a thug so she wouldn't fit in this game.
charmane star looks better, tits aren't fake, and she could pass off as a thug. i'm stereotyping because she's a filipina (lots of them are thugs in the west coast) and she could pass off as a mexcian as well (lots of female mexicans are also thuggish).
all you folks don't get your panties caught up in a bunch. i'll be politically incorrect if i want to. plus i'm a filipino so i can stereotype my own people.
rodrigo47
Covert_Knight
Posted 11:07 AM 31/7/08
Escalation eh?
Look what Ubisoft has done, see no one was paying attention to the regular male developers and producers in interviews, so they bring someone easy on the eyes. Now THQ has taken it even further and put a pornstar as a producer so we would actually watch and pay attention to the video.
...well dammit it worked.
Covert_Knight
M-26-7
Posted 11:04 AM 31/7/08
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
Seriously this shit damages video games as an art forms rep entirely. You don't see Picasso getting one of his whores to strip-tease in commercials in order to get people to buy his game.
M-26-7
Ghede
Posted 11:51 AM 31/7/08
@maniacmayhem, icegoat, ƒox, DaveKap, Punkateer:
Ok, It's one thing to be the dummkopf who shouts "FIRST" it is another thing entirely to be the FIFTH person saying OMG! UR B&! I'm not too mad at those who actually commented on the subject at hand, at least they remembered what the post is about, instead of just gloating, as if they had something to do with it.
I'm aware of the hypocrisy, and choose to ignore it.
Ghede
Kro
Posted 11:44 AM 31/7/08
Hope SR2 is going to be better than "her" previous game: Backyard Wrestling 2. ;-)
Kro
raiseplease
Posted 11:41 AM 31/7/08
If you are going to insult my intelligence and assume that I'd be interested in a game solely because of a porn star's involvement, at least have the dignity to include partial or full nudity.
raiseplease
Nik in NOLA
Posted 11:41 AM 31/7/08
@karaquazian:
Legit in the sense of "stockholders make money," not legit in the sense of being critically accepted as valid works. This connects into public perception and the way nongamers look at the industry as a whole, which gets important considering how many locals are trying to pass legislation designed to limit, restrict, censor, ban, or whatever else games (or access to games). It hurts the overall cause when they can point to "oh look, they use pornstars to push their products, that isn't appropriate." It doesn't matter that this is an M game (blahblah not designed for your bratty kid blahblah), but the public perception among people that count (read: legislators who are generally three generations too old to have grown up with games) is that "games are for kids." That's why its a problem. Saints Row 2 could go the way of BMX XXX and sell like 35 copies (and ship 50 review copies), but it would still be cited by the morality police as an example of "the industry run amuck."
Saying they shouldn't use pornstars to push their product is completely different from, say, suggesting that the Mass Effect sex scene should have been cut out. The latter is worked into the plot and is handled maturely. The former is just tits for the sake of tits, and like it or not will cause the rest of the "industry" to suffer in terms of perception.
Nik in NOLA
kmg0
Posted 11:39 AM 31/7/08
wow this is pretty dire situation for SR2
kmg0
kathartik
Posted 11:36 AM 31/7/08
I wonder if ms. patrick ever found dan, from grim reaper gutters... I know she wanted to party with him
kathartik
Billkwando
Posted 12:16 PM 31/7/08
@3inst3in: Yes.
@Sinfwho: Not liking porn stars doesn't mean one does not like porn.
Professional porn has almost always been stale, unemotional, robotic, unerotic. I know there are rare exceptions, but for the most part, porn (and playboy) are infested with fake looking makeup encrusted cynics.
With all the free amateur porn available with people who're actually into what they're doing, I don't feel the need to ever watch a porn with bacground music ever again.
On topic, porno actresses wouldn't motivate me to buy this game, but they're certainly not going to convince me not to buy it. If it's as good as the first one, I'm in.
They can make commercials with stop motion turd statues kung fu fighting and it's not going to affect my decision to buy the game.
Billkwando
CancerMan
Posted 12:16 PM 31/7/08
SaintsRow is dumb to begin with but, i love me some tera patrick. i wonder why everybody is against her? she should have been in soulcalibur 4 ...right next to vader.
CancerMan
Enigma_20XX
Posted 12:12 PM 31/7/08
Wow....
.........
...... wow....
... they must REALLY be desperate...
Enigma_20XX
GordieHoweHatTrick
Posted 12:08 PM 31/7/08
Haha, really liked the eyes on the 360 cover.
and for some reason, I think Tera looks a bit like Olivia Munn.
GordieHoweHatTrick
thor79
Posted 11:59 AM 31/7/08
Just one word to describe THQ's marketing plan...desperate.
It's one thing to paint a fictional chic up on the side of a hotel along with two more of your characters for advertising...it's an entirely different thing to involve a porn star as a centerpiece to your marketing strategy.
Sad...just sad. I have no respect for THQ.
thor79
Coquiton
Posted 12:39 PM 31/7/08
Wow, there are a lot of people here who take things way too seriously.
I mean, damn. A company releases a tongue-in-cheek commercial about a tongue-in-cheek series, and everyone loses their minds!
I mean, damn! It's just a 'commercial', guys. It's not the end of the world if someone uses sex to sell something.
Look at TV. Even Arby's is in on the "sex sells" secret. Look at posters, how many ads do you see with a hot girl on them?
Look at any magazine. How many ads have an erotic tone?
Look at the radio. They don't pick that girl with a low, whisper-y voice for nothing.
Billboards, internet ads, the list keeps going.
If you have a vendetta against this kind of advertisements, then you have bigger fish to fry than a satirical video for a game that's trying to be as over-the-top crazy as possible.
Stop doom-saying, or condemning a game company for putting a girl on camera.
Coquiton
jollydwarf
Posted 12:33 PM 31/7/08
Maybe it's already been said, but this is basically the 'ghetto' version of what Ubisoft did with "Assassin's Creed" last year.
Don't get me wrong, she's fuckin' hot, obviously, but I'm not buying this 'Eminem wannabe'-pandering, second-string 'thug life' game.
jollydwarf
DarthHater1137
Posted 12:23 PM 31/7/08
@damienk: You are a genius and I love you
DarthHater1137
dechire
Posted 12:21 PM 31/7/08
HAHA, thats the most awesome shit ever. i laughed. i cried. A+++
dechire
CartesianDualist
Posted 1:03 PM 31/7/08
Wow, why involve a porn star with a video game? That just makes people view video games as an immature, childish, dumb-down hobby for horny teenage boys with a bad attention span.
Anyways, Tera Patrick is a used up hussy. Like most women who do porn for years her body and face looks horrific. Too much surgery and her overall well being seems to be messed up.
CartesianDualist
Enigma_20XX
Posted 12:48 PM 31/7/08
@Coquiton: And if your game is so damn good, why would you have to use sex to sell it, genius?
Enigma_20XX
HaydenTenno
Posted 12:47 PM 31/7/08
@Coquiton: LOL! Pot meet kettle. ;)
HaydenTenno
Coquiton
Posted 1:17 PM 31/7/08
@HaydenTenno: ...?
@Enigma_20XX: Because sex sells. :D
Seriously, though. It's pretty obvious that this game won't sell on merit alone. The first one wasn't a huge blockbuster, so they won't sell on the game's name alone. Plus, it's in the wake of GTA4.
Does that mean it's a bad game? Not by itself, no. It just means they don't have the advertisement budget of Halo, or the renown of a company like Rockstar.
And of course, this is just a "developer commentary". It's not what they're trying to advertise their game with. To say they're entire advertising campaing (look at previous comments, that seems to be the general target) is based on using Tera Patrick is kind of jumping the gun, imo.
Coquiton
Omnimon
Posted 1:16 PM 31/7/08
@Enigma_20XX: Sex sells a ton of video games, and if you don't admit that you're oblivious many things, including why JRPGs use androgenous 14 year-old looking characters.
At least they're being blunt about it. Noone cared when it was Leisure Suit Larry. :p
Omnimon
rabidkeebler
Posted 1:15 PM 31/7/08
BTW didn't Jenna Jameson do the voice for Candy Suxxx in GTA Vice City?
rabidkeebler
ShadowScale
Posted 1:14 PM 31/7/08
@CartesianDualist: exactly
ShadowScale
ShadowScale
Posted 1:13 PM 31/7/08
I'm sorry but she just doesn't look attractive in that pic
ShadowScale
Omnimon
Posted 1:13 PM 31/7/08
@VergessenHeld: ok fine with the moral commentary to an extent, but they can sell you a porn star or on the GTAIV side they can sell you a stereotypical murderer. As far as I see it, at least what they're marketing with is someone in a legal 'profession'.
Yes, distasteful, but let's not go judging one without juding another.
Omnimon
rabidkeebler
Posted 1:09 PM 31/7/08
For all the people who complain about this destroying video games as an art form, I just have three words for you "Bring It On"
I say this obviously because that movie didn't do much for the "movies as art" argument, but it didn't do anything like destroy the industry as we know it.
rabidkeebler
Blah8
Posted 1:52 PM 31/7/08
Uh, ok. As others have said, this really doesn't do anything to make the game more appealing, it just shows how desperate they are to market it. At least make some sort of intelligent joke or something along with the ad...
...thought that hotdog costume was pretty awesome.
Blah8
AntiheroKing
Posted 1:49 PM 31/7/08
@bigman88zz: Good taste, gentlemen! lol. Awesome models, as well as the ever lovely Nadine Jansen, and my personal favorite, Katarina.
*ahem* The topic. Yes.
Tera Patrick was never really one that I cared much for in the way of porn actresses. She's hot n' all, but I just can't look at her without chuckling after the cameo in Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
AntiheroKing
Elki
Posted 1:42 PM 31/7/08
Going the way of Midway? Pretty sad.
Elki
Enigma_20XX
Posted 2:04 PM 31/7/08
@Omnimon: @Coquiton:
So basically both of you admit the game couldn't sell on it's own... right? Cause that's all I wanted to hear...
I know it sells, and I'm getting pretty sick of it, you know.. if I want sex, I have porno... and teh intranetz...
Enigma_20XX
bigjayboogie
Posted 2:42 PM 31/7/08
I want Gary Busey back!!! More dudes getting thrown out windows!!!
bigjayboogie
rabidkeebler
Posted 2:34 PM 31/7/08
So let me get this straight. For all of you complaining, it wasn't the raw sewage mini-game? The mock move where you mimic giving head? It wasn't the shock padles as weapons? What turned you off was a porn star.
Something smells and it isn't Tera if you get my drift.
rabidkeebler
d2cmp
Posted 2:30 PM 31/7/08
oh volition, how the mighty have fallen
d2cmp
the_answer
Posted 2:24 PM 31/7/08
i remember she was way hotter when she was younger. cream of the crop. but too bad pronstarz don't age gracefully.. and, oh yeah, i have nothing to say about sr2
the_answer
sxp151, the happy-headed nose
Posted 3:15 PM 31/7/08
The only thing worse than advertising a game with the tits of an unrelated person is advertising it with almost-the-tits.
Seriously, in the age of the internet, anyone remotely interested in Tera Patrick can see any part of her body (external or otherwise) in ultra eye-bleed resolution. So why does this trailer look like an ad on Nick at Nite?
Ooh, I almost saw her bra! Sign me up for this game!
sxp151, the happy-headed nose
harshakamikaze
Posted 4:11 PM 31/7/08
Err...It's nice to know that kotaku-ites are soo well informed about the life and tales of a porn star!!
harshakamikaze
Chef
Posted 4:09 PM 31/7/08
@Turambar: No, he just means that you have to wash your hands after both.
Chef
UndeniableLogic
Posted 5:18 PM 31/7/08
Seeing as this developer blog widget isn't something you could readily come across on the internet if you weren't already interested in this game or games like it, you can't really say they're trying to push her to sell copies.
She's not even that good looking, so it's mostly for the people who know her by appearance or idiots who think some chick will strip from them throughout the game.
Honestly, this game already looks much more fun than GTA4, but it'll never sell as much just because GTA is a household name. But Volition is doing something that GTA4 never did right, character customization. A sandbox game has a big misstep when the person you play as is stagnant, the way I see it.
UndeniableLogic
excaliburps
Posted 5:44 PM 31/7/08
@GordieHoweHatTrick: Yes she looks a bit like Olivia Munn with the headline pic!
Thought it was just me...
excaliburps
CurryZombie
Posted 7:24 PM 31/7/08
OMG my sex depraved mind is going crazy!
"want sex"
"want game"
"want sex"
"want game"
"want sex AND game"
....
CurryZombie
G_the_fresh
Posted 7:51 PM 31/7/08
*sigh*
It seems that I have no other option than buy this game because there's boobs involved.
G_the_fresh
primateforever
Posted 8:09 PM 31/7/08
I like the fact that anything of a sexual nature gets we idiot Americans all up in a huff...but shooting the shit out of someone is T rated until there's "too much blood".
primateforever
Nelo-Risi
Posted 9:09 PM 31/7/08
Those tits are real y'know.
Nelo-Risi
d3vilg0d
Posted 9:34 PM 31/7/08
I wonder if her character model boobies uses havok physix?I really think its awesome having her in the game so I won't feel bad if I get pawned.
I never played the first one so mite give it a shot in the face depending on the reviews
d3vilg0d
Dusk777
Posted 9:59 PM 31/7/08
Using a porn star so blatantely is a very poor attempt at controversy! At least GTA never had Jenna Jameson running around badly promoting vice city! Was mildly looking forward to that, don't think i'll bother now!!!
Dusk777
Soldier_CLE
Posted 11:28 PM 31/7/08
Nothing against Tera Patrick (or any adult entertainers, for that matter.), but the cynic of me has me thinking that the game NEEDED a gimmick.
Why?
Because at this stage of the game, to get someone other than the original staff or, more importantly, THE GAME ITSELF to all of a sudden raise some pandering and titilation to the game has me thinking that the game is lacking somewhere in the fun department.
Not saying that it is the case, but to me, it makes me think that the company is trying to talk itself up about how big this game really is, and in reality, it must just be entertainment of flaccid proportions.
Play for a couple minutes and move on, perhaps?
Soldier_CLE
furiku
Posted 11:11 PM 31/7/08
Won't make me buy it and completely turned me away from it. Also as far is I'm concerned, fake and ugly as sin.
@Nelo-Risi: Not so sure about those lips though. The ones on her face I mean.
furiku
NeoStarr
Posted 12:34 AM 1/8/08
If this is what happens when you work in porn and your looks start to fade then sign me up.
NeoStarr
d-guy
Posted 1:10 AM 1/8/08
@Nik in NOLA: Booth babes seem to work for automotive manufacturers and last time I checked people took them serious(at least the japanese ones now adays)
d-guy
CartBlanche2
Posted 1:05 AM 1/8/08
They should ask Ms Patrick that if she was offered the right amount of money, and if it was tastefully done, would she consider keeping her clothes on for a change.
CartBlanche2
mrpeepants
Posted 1:56 AM 1/8/08
yes!
mrpeepants
Captiosus
Posted 3:11 AM 1/8/08
@Murdermonkey: I dunno about them looking 'natural' - they look pretty fake to me.
Then again, I think her best "career" moments were when she WAS natural and worked with Digital Playground. After she left them and started her own studio, she started looking more and more like the plastified sluts that make up Vivid and Club Jenna.
Just my 2 cents.
She used to be really attractive, now she looks "meh" at best.
Captiosus
goddessakasha
Posted 4:27 AM 1/8/08
And here I was actually thinking about buying this game. Now, they've managed to turn me off completely from it and gross me out about thinking how many times this chick has been done all at the same time.
Good one on you Volition.
goddessakasha
KrelianAngel
Posted 4:16 AM 1/8/08
Trying to 1up jade, sell a game with a 'hot dev.' It's a sad world we live in.
KrelianAngel
Thugmunk
Posted 6:35 AM 1/8/08
SOLD.
But some of the stuff she said.. (like co-op) really shouldve been in GTA IV.. gah, will probably end up buying this game.. for uh.. personal reasons. :)
Thugmunk
Sunjammer
Posted 8:30 AM 1/8/08
Saints row is the biggest wigger game series of all time anyway. There are few games out there that come off as painfully, tragically white as that series. It's like the Cool as ice of video games.
Just painful, painful stuff.
Sunjammer
ssh83
Posted 12:40 PM 1/8/08
If a marketter doesn't even know how to use sex appeal properly to sell a product, they're worthless.
ssh83