'The Division' trailer: A stunning look at the apocalypse
Many of the best videogame trailers don’t actually feature anything that will appear in the ultimate game. Indeed, some trailers are specifically designed to obscure unfinished-or-just-terrible gameplay. (Three years later, it’s possible to consider the actual Dead Island game an unsatisfying spinoff of the fantastic Dead Island trailer.)
But even granting a healthy amount of skepticism, attention must be paid to the trailer for Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division, which takes a common theme (pandemic apocalypse hits New York!) and gives it a distinctive, bleak, fascinating new spin. Check it out:
And as a bonus, here’s the trailer for Valiant Hearts: The Great War, a trailer which combines World War I and a cute dog into some kind of perfect Frankenstein’s Monster of tearjerking:
