The Stevie Wonder version was more about plain fun.Some people may be disappointed by the lack of co-op and multiplayer, but Eidos Montreal has explained its absence to IGN: They’ve never hesitated to embrace 80s and 90s hedonism in their song choices, but this trailer for Grand Theft Auto V went a little deeper – cut like a neat Sopranos-style movie trailer for Michael De Santa’s midlife crisis comedy, the trailer’s choice of Queen tallies nicely with his age and possible tastes in dad rock, neatly clothes the high-octane gangland violence, and somehow creates a (satisfyingly comic) wistful pathos.
True to their name, Rockstar have an uncanny sense for game trailer music – they just get it, and more than a decade later Vice City remains a star in the gaming sync crown. We could have listed nothing but GTA trailers, but we’ve tried to rein it in. The gospel-flavoured intro of Neko Vega’s ‘Beast’ allowed a brief tour of Colombia’s astonishing, very much non-maritime world, and the sudden break slammed us into the brutal airborne action, while the venom-spitting lyrics about scrounging a life in a corrupt America spoke to the game’s ultimately twisted libertarian utopia. For the distinctly different Bioshock Infinite, however, Irrational Games took a distinctly different tack. While the game itself received some tough comparisons to its predecessors, its trailer certainly announced it in shining style.īioshock did glorious things with wry use of jazz classics, cutting the first game’s trailer with Bobby Darin’s Beyond the Sea, and the likes of The Mills Brothers’ ‘You Always Hurt The One You Love’ onto loading screens. We love the contrast with the Fable universe’s bright fantasy look and tough trailer styling, as a pack of bold-hatted revolutionaries tear down the corrupt trappings of a tyrannical king. Slo mo and hard psychedelic rock are a solid bet for a big entrance, and Austin’s The Black Angels delivered menacing strut in spades. Be warned: given the titles, it goes without saying that some of these get pretty bloody! We’ll admit that our tastes tend more towards the cinematic, and that the quality of these announcements didn’t always tally with the game’s actual performance – this is all about the art of the game trailer as shiver-inducing standalone. We’ve looked at teasers and launch trailers of all sorts.
We’ll round up our favourite music use from this year’s conference after the dust has settled, but today we’d like to take a quick look back at some of our all-time favourite game trailer music – top trailers, and the synced tunes that helped them pack a wallop.
With E3 reaching its zenith today, ‘tis the season for glorious game trailers.
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