The Warhammer online trailer is certainly excellent, makes the world feel a little more epic and less rhetorical. | |
No mention of Final Fantasy Versus 13?! that trailer was just plain WOW!! | |
GOW III: big-name developers. Da Maw: independent. | |
I guess Resident Evil 5, no wait! Brutal Legend. Very excited for that. Only Psychonauts 2 would make me happier. | |
The Fallout 3 teaser trailer was fantastic, simple but very strong. Dawn of War 2 and the 5min Left 4 Dead intro/trailer were also very good. | |
all very good, but i agree with the warhammer one...probably the best trailer ever. it def give the amazing WoW ones a run for their money, is games ever become as epic as that trailer i no i will have died and gone to heaven :) i must say, WAR is the only real competitor ive seen on WoW (gameplay and trailers) and will hopefully go far...just a shame it isnt worth that £10.50 (or whatever it is in $) a month | |
I think my favorite this year was the Far Cry 2 trailer from E3 2008. Anything with Massive Attack's 'Angel' is going to get points from me, but the quote from the trailer is great. How do you stop a man who has the power to turn a nation into a graveyard? | |
Wow...Brutal Legend. This looks so awesome, and makes me even more ashamed that I still havn't played pyconauts. Oh sod, im downloading it in the morning. | |
What about the new Half-Blood Prince trailer? O wait... Anyway, I would have to agree with Mirror's Edge as being one of the best trailers of 2008. | |
What, no Diablo 3? :) I demand this list be extended! | |
I hadn't seen that particular GoW2 Trailer before, and I must say I do LOVE the use of Poetry. In fact I really love the use of good poetry in anything! It's kind of like Cheese really... | |
Mercs 2 had great trailers. Sadly, the trailers were far and away better than the actual game. Whomever did their marketing should get a raise! | |
Fallout 3 and Mirrors Edge were two of my favorites, I also enjoyed the trailer for Pure but that was mostly because I liked the song, not the best but I enjoyed it. | |
That Gears 2 trailer was beyond cheesy, and the Warhammer one kinda felt like a bad fantasy novel. I'm surprised Lich king's trailer didn't make the list. Blizzard cinematics are amazing. | |
I would say the one from mercenaries 2 i'm never going to get the game but dang that songs catchy. Wait i change my mind left 4 dead is better | |
True, but does it count as a trailer? I'd have expected the Diablo 3 one to be on there, though. | |
I liked the TV Spot for Mirror's Edge better, to be honest, despite having no gameplay (though it looked close enough). I once wondered why more developers don't plug the money to put ads in theaters. Then I realized it must be a conspiracy. If they did that, people would stop going to the movies because the games look so much better. I mean, really, when was the last time you saw a trailer for a film that looked like any of those and were like "Dude.....damn...". A long, long time ago is when. | |
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The Best Videogame Trailers Of 2008
A sure sign of a looming new year is the inevitable emergence of "best of" retrospective lists, and since you can't avoid them you might as well embrace them. Why not start with this list of the Seven Best Videogame Trailers of 2008?
Put together by Paste Magazine, the list is made up of high-profile titles that should be familiar to anyone who's been a gamer for more than a week. Some of the games in the list were released in 2008, while others are still in development, but all feature top-notch visuals and a strong cinematic sensibility. The first entry in the list, id's Rage, is all about the technology, while the Brütal Legend trailer does nothing but set the mood for things to come.
Once those two are out of the way, things get more impressive. My own personal favorite is Mirror's Edge, which turns a simple mix of gameplay footage and an outstanding theme song into a remarkably powerful promotional video. The first Fallout 3 trailer gets a nod as well, no great surprise in light of its role as the harbinger of an all-new Fallout RPG, but it didn't make it to the top. What did? Have a look at the complete list to find out.
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