Which do you think is the best? Send us an email at xlmail@microsoft.com, subject line: "best 360 ad idea" and let us know.

GamerSpeak:

Your Xbox 360 TV Ads

You've seen that the Jump Rope commercial won an Addy, right? No? Check it out here.

ThisGamerSpeak was for all the creative types in the Xbox.com forums. We asked them for their ideas for a great TV spot that would show off the fun of Xbox 360™. The following gamers made like ad execs and pitched their commercial ideas. No, we're not going to make the commercial, this was just for fun. Which do you think is the best? Send us an email at xlmail@microsoft.com, subject line: "best 360 ad idea" and let us know.

Kids playing with Lego (or something less brand-specific... ;-), making little robots. The robots get 'zapped' by the Xbox 360 and become giant robots stomping through the city, winging a few buildings, fighting/wrestlingeach other (in a playful way). Another kid sees them out of a window, and builds his own. 'Zap'! The Xbox 360in his room creates another giant robot to play with the other two. More kids spot therobots and more robots appear. Camera draws back from the city, with robots popping in all over the place as kids make more. All the robots are playing together.Song starts—and the robots hold hands and start dancing (conga line??) all over the city! Xbox 360: Jump In logo appears.

Groovychainsaw
London

Start the commercial off with someone in an EB Games or Gamestop looking at games for Xbox 360 or Original Xbox®.

Have the mall look almost deserted, and then have a zombie tap on the glass of the store, startling our hero. Our hero notices now there are many zombies stumbling towards him … then he grabs a stack of Xbox 360 games off the wall and starts throwing them at the zombies, knocking one down. Then have one get right up close behind him … then a slight flash and it shows him still standing where he was originally looking at games and a store clerk is now behind him. He asks, "Can I help you find something?"

Our hero just replies, "no thanks. I found what I was looking for." He grabs a copy of Dead Rising … and then:

JUMP IN

Halflife84
Burlington , Ontario

It starts with a hand putting a plug in the socket, then the camera pans back to show a person with an Xbox controller in his hands and a widescreen TV. When he pushes thepower button on the controller,the TV lights up and the camera moves towardthe televisionas it moves from a vertical to a horizontal position. It now looks like a rectangular in-ground pool an Xbox 360 dashboard image.

Then it pans back to show the personwith the controllernow on a platform and he high dives into the TV image and goes under. Then you see flashing images. Images of games, the dashboard, Xbox Live®. They flash slow then move rapidly to music that'ssomething like the orchestra bridge part in the song 'A Day In the Life' by The Beatles. Then thepicture starts flashing green.

The green color pulls back and it's the power button on theXbox 360 main console.It is facing up at the sky asthe unit is on its back. Then from out of the power circle comesthe person as if he is getting out of a round pool. Heand his clothing are drenched. He walks across a roomand gives an excited "woo" sound likehe just had a great swim or workout.As he walks across the words" Jump In" appear behind him following the Xbox 360 logo.

KjellShocked
Shirley , NY

Xbox 360 Premium…………………………………… $399.00

High-speed Internet connection……………… $29.99

Pwning your boss on Xbox Live…………………Priceless

Rainmaker2112
Sumas , WA

The commercial should start out by having Shaq, in his Miami Heat uniform walking down a busy street with an Xbox 360 controller in his hand. There is a LARGE big screen TV in the heart of the city, just where Shaq is walking. As he walks he is playing games on the 360 via the big screen TV. He sees different people like Master Chief, Cortana, Marcus Fenix, Joanna Dark, Call of Duty® 2 Soldiers, Agent 47, and a few others. The controller just keeps on getting passed around and whoever gets the controller plays their own game. For instance, Master Chief would be playing Halo® 3. Marcus Fenix would be playing Gears of War®, Joanna Dark would be playing Perfect Dark Zero™, and so on. After that it gets handed to other Xbox 360 gamers and they play their favorite games, hence the name "Jump In".

GGreen05
Woburn , MA

A spaceship searching deep space … they jump/warp from solar system to solar system. On their final jump their censors pick up what they were looking for, a system with a green planet. They head for it at like warp bazillion. As they get closer they see millions of other ships surrounding the planet. Ships keep jumping in by the thousands. As the planet rotates around it reveals the Xbox 360's super cool logo is the planet … ".Jump In."

Izod the Great
Somers , CT

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