What are Linkin Park with Microsoft?
Microsoft launched the beta of Project Spark last December, allowing gamers and developers to create and play custom games on Xbox consoles .
To promote their new album The Hunting Party, Linkin Park teamed up with Microsoft to create an interactive music video that users can take part in, remixing scenes to recreate from scratch.
The band has teamed up with developers Team Dakota to create a stunning interactive video for their new single Guilty All the Same, which they say can be played in three acts. The visuals are suitably dark and brooding, and the overall gameplay seems to show someone trying to escape a typical hellscape that has been destroyed by some unholy entity. Of course, the mix of sound and visuals seems to fit in well. While it's not entirely clear what can 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 be offering the music video to gamers for free on Xbox and Windows 8.1, and "The Hunting Party" will be released on June 14th.
