Lana del Ray's "Video Games" is a slow, quiet balad that builds itself up that got negative reviews on the Internet after an appearence on Saturday Night Live. Hitman: Absolution is about Agent 47 trying to kill people that want to kill him and they happen to employ a lot of fetishistic nuns that the Internet found to be in poor taste.
It feels like peanut butter and chocolate found each other, then, with the latest TV spot for Absolution that combines Agent 47's merciless efforts with Lana Del Ray's breathy vocals. In fact, it's amazing that Absolution would be the first game of 2012 to use her song that's literally titled "video games."
There've been mash-up videos before with even more grating music choices, but never something that was as official as this. It doesn't help that Agent 47's target is a woman who, for all intensive purposes, could be singing to herself in the shower. It really isn't doing him any favors in the light of recent press. But at least we can rest easy now that "Video Games" has met a video game--even if it ends poorly for one of them.