The Hottest Trailers of E3 2015
This year’s E3 solidified a trend in the promotion of upcoming games: fewer (and shorter) pre-baked cinematics, and ever-longer sequences of actual gameplay. Long-play demos were all the rage — including, among other things, an unexpected return to “tabletop” gaming. Here are some of the coolest trailers from E3 2015.
Halo 5: Guardians
Oh, Halo, how we’ve missed you. Spartan Locke and Fireteam Osiris run-and-gun their way through some dazzling, expansive locales in this lengthy chunk of the single-player campaign. The Xbox One gets put through its paces and comes out looking golden.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Lara Croft finds herself in a frozen wasteland in this pulse-quickening slice of mountain-climbing gameplay from the upcoming Tomb Raider sequel.
Star Wars: Battlefront
If this ‘pre-alpha’ footage is anything like what we’ll see in our homes at release, then we may be able to say it’s finally possible to live inside a Star Wars movie.
Dishonored 2
One of the many high points of Bethesda’s E3 presentation was this cinematic trailer for Dishonored 2, the follow-up to 2012’s hit stealth/action title set in a dystopian quasi-Victorian world. This time around, we meet Emily Kaldwin, a playable female protagonist.
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Indiana Jones once grumbled that people trying to kill him “happens to me all the time,” but Nathan Drake’s got him beat: the poor guy can’t pop out for an espresso without a dozen AK-wielding henchmen showing up to take pot shots. Sony whet our appetites for the latest Uncharted with this meaty gameplay footage that shows off the seamless flow from cover-based gunplay to off-road racing.
The Last Guardian
It's alive! ALIVE! We've waited six long years to hear more about this boy-and-his dragon adventure, crafted by the geniuses at Team Ico (Shadow of the Colossus). This year we got a nice long gameplay demo, showing off vertiginous platforming sequences and a touching friendship.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst
The original Mirror’s Edge combined cyberpunk style and parkour action into something truly special. This slick new trailer has us eager to revisit its tough protagonist, Faith, for another go-around
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Johnny Cash wouldn’t have been our first choice for scoring a trailer for the newest installment in Bioware’s hit sci-fi RPG series. But boy, it works. Chills.
Horizon Zero Dawn
The new action-RPG depicts a post-apocalyptic future in which feral robots have evolved to dominate the Earth, while primitive hunter-gatherers hunt them down. While it doesn’t quite explain which part of a giant robot you can eat, the gameplay trailer impressed us with its gorgeous visuals and haunting, elegiac tone.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Fans went wild for this long-demanded update of the 1997 classic that helped Hironobu Sakaguchi's legendary RPG series secure a Western audience. Cloud, how we've missed you.
Cuphead
It’s not all about big franchises and amazing 3D graphics. Indie run-and-gun shooter Cuphead dazzled this year’s E3 audience with its incredibly creative style, patterned after 1930s animations like Max Fleischer’s legendary Betty Boop cartoons.
Super Mario Maker
It's the 30th anniversary of the great Super Mario Bros. this year, and what better way to celebrate than by building, sharing, and playing your own levels.
Kingdom Hearts III
Fans of Square-Enix's beloved Disney mash-up role-playing franchise were thrilled to see that a new game is indeed in the works. Too bad they didn't give us a release date.
Minecraft Hololens?!
Minecraft might not be very new, but combine it with Microsoft’s Hololens hardware and it becomes arguably the most mind-blowing demo of the conference. We can’t wait to get our hands on a Hololens now.
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