Just came across this, I think it really shows the power of investing in a unique trailer to promote your games.
A traditional turn based strategy game, could have been a really dull trailer, following standard conventions. However this trailer is different, humorous, with a laid back, jazzy music track and smooth deep voice narration, along with the clean style of graphics in the game. It certainly made me sit up and take notice and will buy it once I’ve decided what platform I want.
Its funny that actually there aren’t that many really good game trailers. Very few try to do anything different to differentiate themselves. Off the top of my head a few of my favourites would be;
Blood Dragon - welcome to the eighties. Also really enjoyed the new live action trailer they made.
W40k - Dawn Of War. Probably one of the best trailers ever made, certainly at the time. Though like many others it doesn’t represent the game at all.
Dead Island. Such a powerful trailer, again nothing really to do with the game or gameplay, but it certainly got attention.
What was nice with the Leviathan: Warships is that is shows actual gameplay, so its not quite as fake as some of the other trailers I’ve mentioned.
Paradox uses Unity? Kewl.