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[Biag]

I'm not gonna lie, this trailer actually convinced me to buy the game. I find it hard to get excited over most gameplay trailers... typically, they're put together exactly like movie trailers, only with clips from the game that are awkwardly cut and forced to fit in with the music instead of prerendered clips designed to fit.

Besides, if they had done a gameplay trailer instead, we would have spent three minutes watching some dude play an FPS to heavy metal. How does that help communicate the experience? This, at least, is solid proof that the team behind the game is capable of coming up with a brilliant vision and then putting the effort in to realize that vision.

With regards to the backwards-forwards thing- I think they did rewind it, there were just a couple of awkward motions. If you watch the chronological version, those parts look a little funky, so they ended up looking even stranger in reverse.

[Soulwynd]

If they just show a bunch of live action videos with no CGI  and no gameplay then it's not a gameplay trailer...

Ahh rhetoric. A game trailer isn't a gameplay trailer. A gameplay trailer is a trailer that shows gameplay. A game trailer is a trailer related to a game, thus it's a game trailer, not a gameplay trailer. At least I clearly mentioned game trailer.

Pick something else to pick on.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

If they just show a bunch of live action videos with no CGI  and no gameplay then it's not a gameplay trailer...

Ahh rhetoric. A game trailer isn't a gameplay trailer. A gameplay trailer is a trailer that shows gameplay. A game trailer is a trailer related to a game, thus it's a game trailer, not a gameplay trailer. At least I clearly mentioned game trailer.

Pick something else to pick on.

And I clearly mentioned gameplay trailer.

I'm not gonna lie, this trailer actually convinced me to buy the game. I find it hard to get excited over most gameplay trailers... typically, they're put together exactly like movie trailers, only with clips from the game that are awkwardly cut and forced to fit in with the music instead of prerendered clips designed to fit.

Besides, if they had done a gameplay trailer instead, we would have spent three minutes watching some dude play an FPS to heavy metal. How does that help communicate the experience? This, at least, is solid proof that the team behind the game is capable of coming up with a brilliant vision and then putting the effort in to realize that vision.

With regards to the backwards-forwards thing- I think they did rewind it, there were just a couple of awkward motions. If you watch the chronological version, those parts look a little funky, so they ended up looking even stranger in reverse.

Techland didn't make the trailer.  It was commissioned with their input, but they weren't the ones who made it.  If they chose to show gameplay footage to heavy metal it would definitely communicate the experience better than this trailer, because it would actually be the work of the people who made the game.  For all we know this trailer could be a perfectly accurate representation of the mood of the game, but we can't know, because it's just a pre-rendered trailer.  It doesn't show any proof of anything about the actual game.

[Neonivek]

If they just show a bunch of live action videos with no CGI  and no gameplay then it's not a gameplay trailer...

Ahh rhetoric. A game trailer isn't a gameplay trailer. A gameplay trailer is a trailer that shows gameplay. A game trailer is a trailer related to a game, thus it's a game trailer, not a gameplay trailer. At least I clearly mentioned game trailer.

Pick something else to pick on.

Except that they WANT you to think it is a Gameplay trailer. Hense why the best trailers are ones that try to immitate gameplay.

[Soulwynd]

Best trailers in retard-land, maybe? I mean, sure it has to relate to the gameplay somehow, but only 'tards would fall for that.

I do wanna see them falling for this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Ci09GwAmg

[Zangi]

http://ca.kotaku.com/5766354/this-is-what-dead-island-the-game-looks-like/gallery/

Some screenshots.

Kind of looks like Oblivion melee with zombies.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Where do you get that?

[Zangi]

Where do you get that?

3rd person view, with a melee weapon.  Though I kinda expect the melee here to 1 or 2 shot the zombies...

[Soulwynd]

Since when oblivion was 3rd person? The 3rd person camera just sucks, I've always played it 1st person.

Just say it's dead rising on an island and be done with it.

[SeaBee]

Just posting to say that I really liked that trailer. Not sold on the game itself, but that trailer ... man.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Since when oblivion was 3rd person? The 3rd person camera just sucks, I've always played it 1st person.

Just say it's dead rising on an island and be done with it.

Seems as though it's going to be more like Dead Rising with Zeno Clash combat.

[HonkyPunch]

seems as though its going to be blind speculation mixed with uncertainty.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

seems as though its going to be blind speculation mixed with uncertainty.

Sure if that's what you call describing the gist of the several articles that have explained the gameplay in detail.

Most people call that describing the gist of the several articles that have explained the gameplay in detail though.

[ductape]

It looks t me like it's going to be like Super Contra, with zombies and some Sims parts.

[Cthulhu]

I think it's going to be like that HBO series True Blood, but with zombies instead of vampires and nothing like that show at all.