Whatever became of putting your own faces in a game?

I know EA did this with some Hockey game a few years on the PC but I haven't heard much as to whether it was successful or not.

Tony Hawk did this too.

I guess they realized it was stupid and decided there was no need for it.

I could see it coming back for the Mac seeing as most (if not all) Macs have a camera built in.

Rainbow Six Vegas let you do that. At least on 360 with the camera. I actually thought it worked really well. I'm surprised everything doesn't have that by now.

I wanted to do that with a Tiger Woods game from EA, but never got around to doing it.

I don't think it's been too successful, otherwise we'd have seen it more often.

I think Sony also did it with an Eye toy play sequel. You could scan a face and beat it up or something.

There's a tool for GoldenEye that lets you replace the face textures with other faces. I believe it's on Zophar's Domain. Great site for emulation and hacking.

I think it evolved into the Mii system. People realized a charicature was more desirable.

Also, not many people have the camera required for such a thing, so devs just went limp over it.

I always thought they'd make a Seaman 2 with this feature. I think I read about it once. It would've been awesome.

Customisation should be good enough. Take a look at Mass Effect and Saints Row 2.

It's weird though because in Europe there cell phones have video camera capabilities. I think they have the technology since 2005 and it's 2009 bout to be 2010 and we still don't have it lol.

Get with the times people! Some of EA's sports games for the last few years have allowed you to do this. Fight Night is excellent with your own face in it. Some other sports games like Pro Evo (the PC version at least) allow you to import faces too.

If they had the Xbox camera attached, Burnout Paradise would send you a photo of your opponent just as you took them down (and vice versa). On the pre-NXE dashboard I think you could use whatever the camera saw as wallpaper, but I don't know if that's possible with NXE.

Nintendo is frantically trying to satiate the frothing "insert your own face into a game" demand with the DSi, from what I can tell.

My face in any game is a good idea :ok: