Most launch trailers do little more than alert us to the name of an upcoming title and if we’re lucky show us enough gameplay footage for us to tell what genre the game actually will be. A rare few launch trailers, however, manage to fill us with excitement and a burning desire for the game. Essentially, we don’t just know the game is coming out after it, we know we’ll play that game. Here is a list of five of the best launch trailers that really got us salivating.
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
EA has shut down rumors that EA Motive considered a Dead Space 2 remake before shelving it due to low sales of the previous game, saying there's "no validity" to the reports.
Why not remake DS2 whether shot down or not it's still my favorite game next to DS1. As much as I hate EA I would buy or would have bought DS2 day one.
No validity XD "Guys guys, we cant possible make a good game or cater to the gamers wants, stop"
I don't know if sales met their expectations or not. I just know that the high review scores received my attention so I was interested in buying it, but its price stayed high (50+ bucks) for so long that I simply never bothered picking it up.
Doesn't pay full price
Doesn't pay *any* price
Ponders if sales met expectations regarding an allegedly canceled sequel.
Gee...
Well, for starters, I'm sure there are plenty of games I never bought which did, somehow, still, meet their sales-expectations.
Concerning Dead Space; I never played and thus cared for the original. It's in multiple genres (shooter, sci-fi, horror) I don't particularly care about so it was barely on my radar pre-launch. I was never its target-audience.
When reviews hit, and it was scoring big, it gathered my interest, so while it wasn't in my field of interest, it mrans that I wanted to give it a fair shot and at least give it a try, as I do with many games across different genres; I tend to just cherry-pick the good stuff and see if it's for me or not.
But, I do wait for sales on those games I take a risk on.
Lol, you are a huge part of the problem. If a very high-quality game is not even worth 50 bucks to you, then what is?
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
Great choice of trailers. I got really excited about Dying Light from its launch trailer alone. The Assassin's Creed trailers always build up a lot of hype as well, and thing I like most about them is that they don't give away too much of the story!
I remember the first ever trailer for Assassin's Creed, so much hype. And then there was Killzone2, another great trailer. Both games were pretty disappointing. The Gears of War launch trailer was great, even if I didn't play it.
The Gears of War trailer was a good shout. Also, you've just reminded me of how much I loved the build up to Dead Space 2, with the whole "Your mom is going to hate it" campaign.
Great read thanks.. this made me think way back to FF7. I remember when that trailer aired on TV everyone was so excited. It was the first time a game like that had been marketed as just this epic adventure..
It's pretty difficult to get a game trailer right. One of my biggest frustrations with this years E3 was that most of the trailers showed no gameplay, making it hard for gamers to decide whether or not it's their type of game. The best trailers manage to create good hype through the clever combination of graphics, story and gameplay.