World of Adcraft

Fan-made commercial for a sneaker contest:

Actual commercial for, um. Trucks:

Yes, the Apocalypse is among us. Expect four horsemen and plagues shortly.

  • Ajeba

    Yes, I am on Lightning’s Blade. Someone touch me!

    “ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo”

    It’s amazing how many people will identify with this since WoW has such a large subscription base.

  • Steve

    I wonder how much the other Tacoma ads cost to produce, compared to this one.

    They do have some special effects; I’m thinking of the Nessie and the meteor strike.

  • http://hgamer.blogspot.com Heartless_

    Nothing wrong with good advertisements.

  • Sutro

    Anything that promotes mainstreaming of these games is cool with me.

  • Angel13

    While I agree the promotion of MOGs of any type is a good thing I have to agree with the sentiment of WoW being the platform chosen heralding the end of the world… I’m going to be watching the sky for raining fire, it’s overcast where I’m at.

  • http://www.killtenrats.com Zubon

    We can all look forward to the EVE truck ad, where a Ford takes out a dreadnought or something.

  • Freakazoid

    Those aren’t commercials until I see them on tv.

  • http://wftm.diaryland.com Gawain

    oh thank god. the apocalypse. finally! I’ve been thinking the Earth needs a reboot.

  • Walter Yarbrough

    They were playing the Toyota commercial during college football over the weekend.

    I saw it during Tennessee . . . Georgia – and read about someone seeing it during the OK game.

  • http://wttf.org jeremy

    Leave it to advertising to be a few steps behind.

  • yunk

    In other news, this answers so many questions:

    Research shows neurotic players win:

    http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/10/neurotic-software-is-top-gamer.html

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com/ wowpanda

    That was a cool ad, the truck one of course. The shoe ad is not really an ad.