What do they do? Linkin Park to Microsoft;
Microsoft launched its beta Project Spark last December, allowing players and developers create and play custom games on consoles Xbox.
To promote their new album The Hunting Party, The Linkin Park teamed up with Microsoft to create an interactive musician video which users will be able to take part in, shuffling the scenes to rebuild it from scratch.
The band collaborated with developers Team Dakota to create a seven-hour interactive video for new single Guilty All the Same, which they say can be played in three acts. The optics effects they're appropriately quite dark and brooding, and the overall gameplay seems to be about someone trying to escape a typical hellscape destroyed by some unholy entity. Of course, the mix of sound and visual effects probably fits well enough. While it's not entirely clear what might be changed and in what ways, Microsoft and the band promise that players can take scenes from the video and remix the song and gameplay however they want.
While the presentation isn't the most exciting ever, it's quite inventive and seems to make good use of the new platforms Project Spark. Linkin Park will offer the music video to gamers for free on Xbox and Windows 8.1, and “The Hunting Party” will be released on June 14.
