# Great game advertisements **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765 "2012-09-05T17:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/1 "2012-09-05T17:31:32Z")
Video game, board game, computer game whatever. Any advertisement; commercial, magazine, blog, whatever. Games have an incredible variety of themes making them great for ads. I’ve always liked [Gears of War with Mad World playing in the background](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccWrbGEFgI8) and I once saw a two page magazine spread for Panzer General and the only thing printed was, “This land is your land, until it’s my turn.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/2 "2012-09-06T14:23:43Z")
[Announcement trailer for **Dead Island**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqrG1bdGtg). ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/3 "2012-09-06T17:09:59Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > [Announcement trailer for **Dead Island**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqrG1bdGtg). And considering how much better that trailer was than the game it was advertising, it’s practically a thread closer. However, the [trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMRhnC4-QGQ) for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft is pretty damn good, particularly if you can appreciate the horrible irony of the voiceover. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/4 "2012-09-06T17:18:43Z")
An oldie but goodie: [Grimslade, Indel and Valerius vs. green slime](http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6603/dnd02.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/5 "2012-09-06T17:49:17Z")
I thought the official trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution was pretty compelling. Starts with a bionic Icarus, and throws you into the world of the game. Also, pretty colors! ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/6 "2012-09-06T20:43:49Z")
Well, you couldn’t call it great, but the most memorable one in my mind was the teaser ad for Daikatana which simply said “John Romero’s going to make you his bitch.” Yeah, let me know how that works out for you, Johnny. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/7 "2012-09-06T21:31:10Z")
Team Fortress has excellent commercials. There’s an entire ‘meet the’ series, and they’re pretty much all awesome. [Meet the spy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4N5OhcY9s&feature=plcp) Also, Valve is just plain awesome with all their promotions. [Portal Coop trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_u9ZwlIUc) (Not Valve, but very close to the source material: ) [Deadpool](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePiAPFeVyFw) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/8 "2012-09-06T23:01:01Z")
WoW’s [trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYXoyxLv64) for the new expansion is pretty funny in a classy way. A lot of people are bitching because it seems too “kung fu panda.” I liked it though. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-game-advertisements/633765/9 "2012-09-06T23:20:36Z")
[I immediately thought of this one.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnNB1EApA5U)