U2 bassist Adam Clayton said in an interview with USA Toady, the band would like to be in a rhythm based music video game.
U2 was reportedlyready to license their likeness to Harmonix and appear in Rock Band in some way, but the band decided against it. Now that The Beatles have done it the band sees the landscape as having changed.
“We definitely would like to be in there, but we felt some of the compromises weren’t what we wanted,” Adam Clayton told USA Today. “That could change. I love the idea that that’s where people are getting music, and we’d love to be in that world.”
Not content with doing everything else The Beatles have done whilst being more egotistical than the Fab Four, video games seem the next logical step. U2 has already released a special edition iPod and done promotional tie-ins for Research in Motion’s Blackberry smart phones.
Representation of the band was the issue the first time. “What The Beatles have done, where the animation is much more representative of them, is what we’re interested in, rather than the one-size-fits-all animation. We didn’t want to be caricatured.”
The concern seems rightly placed.
Courtney Love recently complained, publicly and frequently, about the use of her former husband Kurt Cobain’s avatar with generic movements and to perform other artists’ songs. Cobain’s former Nirvana bandmates Dave Grohl and that-other-guy-from-Nirvana also expressed their disappointment.
No doubt U2 would rather be known for a rhythm game than for a dramatized puzzle game called ‘How to dismantle and atomic bomb.’
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