This isn't a great shot, but it is a proof of concept. If you have photoshop, or perhaps other editing things (cs2 is free and might have this), you can do a photomerge. That's how folks make the panoramic shots often. With this, I tried taking a panorama in Hitman, with agent 47 in the shots, then cropping to just the right side, where he's out of frame, and then photomerging those to effectively make a shot where he is removed! With a smooth pan from a controller stick done quickly, it's pretty effective for even capturing other characters and whatnot, though I doubt a heavily crowded area would work very well. This could apply to other third person games just the same.
Note: Its not perfect yet, and these very images that were practically on the edge of each other (not enough coverage), so there are a few misalignments, but I think that it'll provide some great stuff once I actually use the controller, and get through the game to some of the nicer areas.