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Buggy Saints Row - The Musical!

- Aha, post of the year alert! This is wending its way swiftly around the blogosphere, but Cabel Sasser (who you might know as the guy who makes those awesome Katamari Damacy T-shirts) has just posted 'Buggy Saints Row - The Musical', an unbelievably awesome musical video tribute to THQ's chart-topping GTA clone.

Cabel explains: "A number of months ago, during the pre-Wii game drought, I partook in a little game cassette called Saints Row. Saints Row (plot: shoot stuff) was a pretty average game by any measure — for starters, it was literally, down to almost every detail, an exact clone of Grand Theft Auto. (I couldn't believe Rockstar didn't K.C. Munchkin all over their faces.) Saints Row does, to its credit, have better graphics, a pretty good script, an amusing character creator, and better targeting (for better shooting people in the face)."

But wait: "It also has some bugs. The world's most awesome bugs... So many bugs that I would keep my digital camera on hand while I played the game. And every time I came across a bug — and I came across a whole lot of them — I'd take a short video. For a long time now, I've wanted to share these bug videos with you, but I wasn't convinced they were quite funny enough. They needed a hot comedy injection, a little something to tie it all together. And then it hit me: musical theatre." The results are super duper awesome! [Via InBetween.]

Comments

The musical part is rubbish, and just a poor gimmick to get people to watch a rather poor selection of bug videos.

Watch many game videos? I'll take some tongue-in-cheek piano showtunes over a cockrock/emo-overdub anyday.

Hmm.. three bugs that I have yet to encounter after 20 or so hours of playing.

what's with the hater comments? :D

this is a HILARIOUS video!! thanks for linking this :D :D :D

As a musical nerd, the tunes have a very [title of show] quality about them - self-referential and intentionally amateurish. But there were a lot of shots of three bugs. The NBA Live bug video was much better, even if it did use Yakety Sax.

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