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Burger King orders up Xbox games
Soon gamers will be able to upsize their value meals with a trio of $4 Xbox and Xbox 360 games.

Last month, McDonald's introduced a line of Happy Meal toys featuring Nintendo mascots like Mario and Donkey Kong. As part of the company's image reworking emphasis on fitness, each of the toys had a physical activity focus.


<small>The King should probably be wearing a helmet.</small>

Today, McDonald's rival Burger King officially announced a campaign that takes a different tack to a gaming tie-in. Instead of offering toys that evoke games and promote activity, the fast-food chain is going to offer three Xbox and Xbox 360 games of its own this holiday season, each of them slathered with Burger King branding like so-much mayonnaise on a Double Whopper with Cheese.

Burger King's plans to get into gaming were originally leaked in April by a company doing market research for the fast-food chain.

Pocketbike Racer will feature a number of Burger King mascots including the King, the Subservient Chicken, the Whopper Jr., and former host of E!'s Wild On series, Brooke Burke. Five levels will be included, as will multiplayer races for four people on the same Xbox or Xbox 360, or eight people online over Xbox Live.


<small>A disgruntled fry slinger attempts regicide at the carnival.</small>

Big Bumpin' also takes a lineup of BK mascots and pits them against one another in vehicular competition, but this game isn't a race so much as a bumper car ride. The game features a number of theme-park settings and on-track hazards like saws and bottomless pits, as well as bump-pumping power-ups. Big Bumpin' will also have four-player action and online multiplayer support.

Finally, Sneak King takes the stealth action genre and puts it to a friendlier use than usual. Instead of tiptoeing behind enemy guards to silently snap their necks, players will sneak up on hungry people to surprise them with offerings of Burger King food. Gamers will have to sneak up on people in a logging yard, a construction site, downtown, and the suburbs, and they will be graded on their performance "based on how elaborate the delivery is executed."


<small>The King's diplomatic immunity protects him from any and all restraining orders.</small>

This is not the King's first visit to the world of gaming. The genuinely off-putting monarch of meat appeared in Electronic Arts' Fight Night Round 3 as an unlockable manager character to accompany the player's boxer to the ring.

The three games will be playable on either the Xbox or Xbox 360, although a Burger King representative told GameSpot there will be no achievements for 360 players to earn. They will be available from November 19 through December 24 at participating Burger King locations for $3.99 with the purchase of a value meal. All of the games are rated E for Everybody.

By Brendan Sinclair -- GameSpot
Posted Oct 2, 2006 1:51 pm PT
Story from GameSpot: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6159158.html
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"he is the godamn batman! thats why! if he can breath in space you damn bet he can wear a panty on his head!" glu-glu</div></p>

My God. This is either horrific or awesome. I'm not quite sure which.

It's awesome because it's horrific.

4chan has one less reason to use Photoshop now. <p><hr />

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Yeah, found out about this through 4chan, and it was posted with the first image there. I thought that -was- a photoshop.

Man, I can't wait till Metal Gear King. Gonna be so cool! <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center">dictionary.com | encyclopædia dramatica
"he is the godamn batman! thats why! if he can breath in space you damn bet he can wear a panty on his head!" glu-glu</div></p>

Instead of tiptoeing behind enemy guards to silently snap their necks, players will sneak up on hungry people to surprise them with offerings of Burger King food.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I have not been to a Burger King since probably the year 1998. I will break this streak to go get that game. Because that shit is hilarious. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

I'm somewhat disappointed you can only offer them tasty meats. Having the option to bellow "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?" would be awesome.

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This reminds me. There was a Burger King King cosplayer at the con I went to three weekends ago. It was awesome and scary. <p>-----
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Yeah, like Dia, I honestly thought it was a shop, too. Finding out that it's fo'real is oddly hilarious.

Fuck, this adds to my list of growing reasons to pick up an Xbox.

"subservient chicken"? <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

Yes. Yes. I noticed that too. <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center">dictionary.com | encyclopædia dramatica
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I'm of the belief that this 'subservient chicken' is one of the 'characters' from an ad. How they've begun to name characters like this, you know. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

Subservient Chicken was a website with a guy in a chicken suit and you could type stuff and he'd do it.

http://subservientchicken.com/

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In case it's somehow unclear, the gist of the whole campaign was that you could "have chicken your way" at Burger King. <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center">

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Oh <span style="font-size:xx-small;">oh</span>

That's all I could say, was "oh". <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

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