Video Game Characters to Get Out the Vote

Thanks to Gamasutra for the heads up about a political music video starring video game characters that is to start airing on MTV today. The newest "Choose or Lose" video will feature characters from popular video games such as The Sims and BloodRayne and is intended to encourage youth voters to show up at the polls. The video will air for the first time on MTV today on TRL, and afterwards can be seen on the MTV Choose or Lose site. This follows closely on the heels of MTV2's Video Mods series, which uses video game footage for the visuals in music videos.

Comments

Re:apathy?

[salvorHardin]

Bill Hicks said it best:

I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'

Re:If it takes video game characters

[DrEldarion]

I think generally people have an idea of who they'd vote for, and even if they don't, they usually know which side shares more of their viewpoints. I don't think people are quite as clueless as a lot of you make them out to be.

Anyway, who says that the people who sit there watching TV all day are clueless anyway? They may just be really lazy. A commercial like this just might get a few extra people out to the booths.

Re:If it takes video game characters

[VAXGeek]

"I'm not talking about 100 question test, I'm asking: who are your senators and congressman? Who is your governer?"

You should have to be able to spell to post on Slashdot. I'm talking about POSTER COMPETENCY here!