# Best Game Trailers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [November 16, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855 "2010-11-16T14:15:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/1 "2010-11-16T14:15:48Z")
Its gotten to the point where game trailers are better than many trailers for actual films, so what are your favourites? Doesn’t have to be upcoming games any period is fine.
A couple to start:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Nf-m6WGl4)
Don’t know much about the DC universe itself but everyone knows Superman and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him as badass as in this clip before!
Deus Ex - Human Revolution
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhqYBKZRg5I)
I loved the first game and so far it looks like this sequel might live up to it
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/2 "2010-11-16T15:36:22Z")
The trailer for Force Unleashed II was pretty good. It’s what the Star Wars prequels should have been like.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/3 "2010-11-16T17:46:28Z")
The [Halo 2 teaser](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cojjVDdtB8g).
Halo 2 had a [TV trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZNJrOLF2AE) I loved, too. Ended with John Hurt’s line: “There are those who said this day would never come. What have they to say now?”
I also liked the intro trailers for [Left 4 Dead](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1HVlcXBmA) and [Left 4 Dead 2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ShE7oIUbkU). I like Nick’s line, which you sometimes hear in the game when you’re badly wounded: “I have not…come this far…to die now.”
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### Author:  [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/4 "2010-11-16T18:22:40Z")
The trailer for bio’s the old republic was epic. Better than the trailers for the actual movies. The one for star craft was also kick ass and came with a heaping dose of nostalgia.
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### Author:  [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/5 "2010-11-16T18:31:06Z")
The trailers I’m talking about:
Sc2 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C\_E83GfWM-A&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_E83GfWM-A&feature=related)
Old repub [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gEzo9wyJrw&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gEzo9wyJrw&feature=related)
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### Author:  [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/6 "2010-11-16T18:40:46Z")
Oops, that was a good tor trailer but not the one I hadnin mind:
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvbv-LkK6w)
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/7 "2010-11-16T20:38:58Z")
It was never used as a commercial, but the opening bit from Chrono Cross is essentially a trailer and is one of the best.
Watch the entire thing and it gives you a great feel for the game.
[Chrono Cross](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B97Ir8Q7e0&playnext=1&list=PL4357D46F5CD421C2&index=53)
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### Author:  [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/8 "2010-11-16T21:38:05Z")
Not one single frame of gameplay in any of these. Terrible.
I remember [this 2006 trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TluRVBhmf8w) setting the hype dial to 11.
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### Author:  [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/9 "2010-11-16T21:58:07Z")
What standard of “best” are we using here? Because I’m sortof in with Palooka - I watched a few of the trailers posted here and none of them made me want to play their GAMES. They were all cool and awesome and shiny and great cinematics, but as advertisements, which is fundamentally what trailers are, they failed utterly. That DCU one at the start? Yeah, great, but by watching it, I wouldn’t even have known what it was for. Some DC thing, I guess? 😛
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### Author:  [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/10 "2010-11-16T22:05:32Z")
Going by the examples in the OP I assumed ti was based on pure coolness factor. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/11 "2010-11-16T22:12:40Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#):
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> Going by the examples in the OP I assumed ti was based on pure coolness factor. 🙂
Yep, coolness factor indeed!
At least unlike trailers for movies they don’t give the entire plot away!
Thanks for the examples everyone
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/12 "2010-11-17T00:39:41Z")
I have a weakness for Bioshock, therefore, this made be squee like a little girl:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2jrxHP2Ug)
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/13 "2010-11-17T14:56:17Z")
> [@Palooka](#):
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> Not one single frame of gameplay in any of these. Terrible.
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> I remember [this 2006 trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TluRVBhmf8w) setting the hype dial to 11.
Not true; the Halo 2 TV ad I linked to above is mostly in-game cutscenes, but also has gameplay. Very little material that isn’t in-game.
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### Author:  [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-game-trailers/560855/14 "2010-11-17T20:10:25Z")
You’re right. The Halo trailer did have about half-a-dozen two-second gameplay clips.