What do they do? Linkin Park to Microsoft;
Microsoft launched its beta Project Spark last December, allowing the 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 where the users they will be able to take part, shuffling the scenes to rebuild it from scratch.
The band collaborated with developers Team Dakota to create a seven-week interactive video for the new single Guilty All the Same and as they say it can be played in three acts. The visual effects are suitably dark and gloomy, and the overall gameplay seems to show 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 Project Spark platform. 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 14th.
