Best game commercials

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LG[Infinite] on 20 June 2008

This commercial:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mewchVnrBUE

The only thing as good as the game it was advertising (Zelda) was the dancing. Oh yeah. The dancing.

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brute on 20 June 2008

i also really liked the halo 3 commercial

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Nothing beats this one: The Techno music & the people screaming the words: ... just watch... :)

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niksta2 on 20 June 2008

not really a commercial, but I thought that the MGS4 theatrical trailer was pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-IbShpbMrU

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O-D-C on 20 June 2008

old school Zelda and NES commercials

it's the legend of zelda and its really rad......

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Borkachev on 20 June 2008

It doesn't surprise me that people here wouldn't like the Wii commercials, because most of the people here aren't the target audience. Wii advertising however have won numerous awards because they are effective at reaching their target audience.

Yeah. The original "Wii would like to play" ads were fantastic. I've been less enthusiastic about the ones since then, but they do what they're supposed to do: show groups of enthusiastic people enjoying the games together. Wii has had easily the best console-general ads I've seen, though that isn't exactly a difficult achievement. (See: every ad Sony ever made before they fired their ad group a few months ago. Although that new one with the Braveheart-esque voiceover is a little wtf too...)

For games, the best ones I've seen are still the FFVII ones. All of them were clever, and even though they didn't show any real gameplay, they blew us all away in 1997.

The Crystal Chronicles ad that just played the main theme over top of gameplay footage was good too.

So were the original Gran Turismo ads. They were nothing but replay footage with the game soundtrack on top.

Simple is usually better. Just show what the game is. You don't have to lure customers in with stupid gimmicks.