“Our legendary personalities are evergreen ‘brands’ with the benefit of worldwide recognition,” reads a message on the Richman agency’s website. Guardian UK Article *vomits* Where is the line drawn between “public figure” and “celebrity”? How can a dead person have an agent, particulary where there are no specific works concerned other than a sense of character? It’s one thing to insist that Duck Soup is a work that should be protected (which any more simply means controlled by whomever has the most buX0rs), but shouldn’t personalities and such pass into the public domain as well? ( boingboing : Bill Gates 0wns Einstein, Groucho , Freud, Asimov, Fuller, et al )
Just for the pedantry - it's PGR 3. PGR 1 & PGR 2 were Xbox (should we start calling that Xbox 180?) titles and the whole series is basically the spiritual heir of Metropolis Street Racer from the Dreamcast.
ReplyDeleteI tend to overlook Bizarre Creations and PGR when listing my Microsoft rants - I guess they are another of the few companies who didn't get the raging phallus from MS. Which is an odd omission because I still play PGR2 online occasionally - I should remember better. I wasn't sure for a while that PGR3 was happening, but it does look like it's gonna be sweet.
Often I'd dismiss this sort of shot as not representing the gameplay, but since they already have a track record of having cool racing in realistic looking cities I'll give them a pass on this one.