2009 In Review: The Trailers

They’re at the forefront of marketing, rarely show gameplay and have been hopelessly corrupted by “developer diaries”, but that’s not to say we hate trailers. We like trailers. There are even some that we love.


December 14, 2009
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Rounding Up The Winners And Videos From The VGAs

I’ll respectfully disagree with Geoff Keighley, the announcement of Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 doesn’t quite deliver the “biggest surprise premiere!” thrill he told us to expect. Granted, the Spike Video Game Awards have a history that is all of seven broadcasts long.


November 1, 2009

And Here Is Two Full Minutes Of Nonchalantly Performed Badassery

Eidos just released a new trailer for Just Cause 2, which blends cinematic action with some impressive gameplay.


October 31, 2009

Lego Indy Trailer Discreetly Avoids Dr. Jones’ Creepy Past

Here’s the Nepal bar shootout scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Lego Indiana Jones 2. I guess the Lego-talk gibberish can’t get across the sequence’s subtle implication that Dr. Jones was boinking Marion when she 16.


October 29, 2009

UK Viral Vid Teaches Us How To Cope With L4D2

Bad enough that this sucker’s set in Louisiana and still features a cricket bat – I’ve truly never heard of anyone playing that game south of the Mason-Dixon, outside of university graduate students from India.


October 27, 2009

BioShock 2 Trailer Makes Everything Better, Wetter, Deader

“Siren Alley”, as this is titled, gives you a two-minute glimpse of the weapons and plasmids you’ll wield in the single-player mode of BioShock 2.


September 29, 2009

First Super Street Fighter IV Trailer

So, Street Fighter IV is real, and it’s not quite what we were expecting. Neither is this trailer, which features zero new characters and zero gameplay footage.


September 26, 2009

Back To The Gallows With Assassin’s Creed II

The Tokyo Game Show trailer for Assassin’s Creed II divulges Ezio’s motivation—namely revenge—in a nicely edited homage to the original Assassin’s Creed trailer, before dissolving into an intense, bloody montage featuring some brief gameplay.


September 23, 2009

Putting Up Airballs—And Making Them—In NBA 2K10

2K Sports’ NBA game, like its NHL counterpart, comes to the Wii for the first time with this year’s edition. This trailer gives a look at the motion controls which, for the most part, seem reasonably intuitive.


September 19, 2009

APB Is So Very GTA

If the latest gameplay trailer for Realtime Worlds’ APB doesn’t have you drawing comparisons to Grand Theft Auto, then you probably haven’t played Grand Theft Auto.