Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Deceptive Game Trailers.

I came across the below game trailer for Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games which mainly showed the 100 meter dash with all the Nintendo characters. I have played the game on the Wii and the the trailer did not show one bit of the the actual game play. I feel that this sort of advertising is extremely deceptive. Imagine buying a game based on a trailer like this and then when you get the game it is nothing like the trailer. I am sure the cut scenes may be similar but actual game play is no where near what is shown.

If this trailer was for a Nintendo movie about the Olympics and the movie was done with people in character suits instead of a CGI movie, there would be an uproar at the box office as the movie was advertised as a cartoon and was not. Some game makers put actual gameplay in between the cut scenes in their trailers but they were non-existent in this one. Buyer beware.

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