Today's Hottest Game Video: Elite Beat Agents

by Zack Stern { Nov 1st 2006 at 12:00AM }

Elite Beat Agents stars in today's most-watched YouTube game video; the winner is a commercial for this DS game. The ad shows the level and song featured in the retail kiosk Elite Beat demo. We haven't seen it yet on broadcast TV, but we usually skip through commercials.

The ad does all it can to explain what this game is about, and we're not sure it succeeds; Elite Beat may need to be played to be fully grasped. The commercial also makes no mention of the crazy song list used in the game -- something non-gamers may understand better than the gameplay.

Elite Beat Agents is a tough game to explain. At least the ad captures the "what the hell is this?" feeling we have while playing. View the video after the break.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Stu L Tissimus @ Nov 1st 2006 12:21AM

They could have at least shown a decent level of difficulty. The way it was shown just looks boring. (Hopefully EBA will have a hard mode like Ouendan did.)

geekjutsu @ Nov 1st 2006 12:43AM

Picking this up when I go to EB to grab my pre-ordered copy of Guitar Hero 2.
Two music games in a single day?
Awesome.

Shipley @ Nov 1st 2006 12:46AM

One of the crew members of my video site covered some of this in "Elite Beat Agents vs. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!"
http://powet.tv/2006/10/15/elite-beat-agents-vs-osu-tatakae-ouendan/

Minimoni @ Nov 1st 2006 2:37AM

If only all of the songs in EBA were as good as the one in the commercial...

karby @ Nov 1st 2006 8:10AM

hmm...not sure if you mean the songs themselves or the sound quality. if you mean the actual songs, can't help you there. but if you're talking about the sound quality, just get stereo headphones. without headphones ds sound quality is just blah. but with them, the music/sound fx really come alive...
(not literally, of course, but you know what i mean :P)
yeah, your ears are missing out on a lot without ds + headphones

Augie De Blieck Jr. @ Nov 1st 2006 11:45AM

I have no idea how to play this game, but after watching this commercial -- I still have no idea. Sounds like it could be cool from all I've read about it, but I'm still confused. It's a rhythm game with a cool soundtrack. That's about all I know.

K-man @ Nov 1st 2006 11:48AM

I picked this up at Costco yesterday. Headphones are definitly a must have for this game. I've played through the first 7 levels and at this point I have to say the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! is definitly my favorite. But Elite beat Agents is still a good game and I'm hoping it will get better as I make my way through the other 3/4 of the game.

Dejital @ Nov 1st 2006 12:08PM

1: I assume there will be levels of difficulty as Ouendan featured 4 difficulties.

Beanie @ Nov 1st 2006 1:28PM

I just keep explaining this game as Dance Dance Revolution with a stylus. I downloaded the demo from Target and its a blast.

Wulkar @ Nov 1st 2006 2:45PM

i saw this yesterday and was all wtf

rockintom99 @ Nov 1st 2006 8:47PM

I can't believe they are actually selling it in the US. I wonder how it will do.

Jeramy @ Nov 1st 2006 8:47PM

yeah i first saw this commercial a few days ago and i said "woah, holy shit. this game looks pretty cool actually. granted, what the hell is it???"

i think marketing did a good job on this one. it sure captured my attention and made me curious. i have heard the name before on this site but i never really paid any attention. now i'm affixed on this game.