Quake Wars trailer goes for the hard sell

by Richard Mitchell { Apr 17th 2008 at 5:30PM }

This, quite simply, is the best thing we've seen all day. Imagine, if you will, that video games were cars. Now imagine that they were also advertised by your local car dealership. Starting to get the picture? Perhaps a different analogy then. If video games were monster truck rallies, how would you advertise them? Things coming into focus yet? Well, even if they aren't, you should watch this trailer for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. You will be glad you did. Find it embedded after the break.

Tags: enemy-territory, id, nerve, quake-wars

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

John @ Apr 17th 2008 5:36PM

This is just ridiculous, ridiculously hysterical. Is this serious?

amart @ Apr 17th 2008 5:39PM

HOWSABOUT yes!

amart @ Apr 17th 2008 5:37PM

Oh wow I couldn't decide if this was legit or not. Either way it was hilarious.
lol @ pwned part !!

RudyHuxtable @ Apr 17th 2008 5:39PM

get your $&!+ together!

TORO @ Apr 17th 2008 5:40PM

LMAO...okay I'm going to push play again

Bryan S. @ Apr 17th 2008 5:43PM

haha wooow. I have this game on PC and love it dearly, and though my inner-PC fanboi tells me it will suck on 360, this trailer rules.

Bryan S. @ Apr 17th 2008 5:44PM

Oh and this is definitely inspired by Powerthirst, if anything:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs

TORO @ Apr 17th 2008 5:57PM

this vid is hilarious too thanks 4 sharin

amart @ Apr 17th 2008 5:42PM

When he asks if your scared about getting pwned, you can here a strike being bowled in the background!! unbelievable lol
definitely needs to be watched multiple times !

mininova @ Apr 17th 2008 5:55PM

Powerthirst now comes in "Quake Wars!!!, when devs give you blacksite, You Find New Devs"!

Sircolby45 @ Apr 17th 2008 5:55PM

Lol now that is great!

OkayOctane @ Apr 17th 2008 5:56PM

See, thats the kind of advertising that gets people like me (idiots) interested. I really want this game now, the shouty man made it seem so good.

Magic Whiskey @ Apr 17th 2008 6:01PM

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

(This totally sells the game for me...I'm excited to try out a demo!)

Mr.ESC @ Apr 17th 2008 6:07PM

Reminds me of the Powerthrist commercial(I was going to put the link here but failtube remove it).Will this game give me BEAR-BLASTING!! too?

Anyway it sounds like it is going to pwn my connection.

haukke @ Apr 17th 2008 6:11PM

best game trailer ever

rockeranimefreak @ Apr 17th 2008 6:25PM

Day one buy! This game is made of WIN!

Neuromancer @ Apr 17th 2008 6:25PM

Wow, just wow... Wish more game companies would use a little sense of humor into their marketing rather than treating everything so damn seriously (Halo 3 I'm looking at you).

Epyon83 @ Apr 17th 2008 6:27PM

Ive got this game for PC and it was quite funny at the beginning, but it got boring after some days cause there are no custom maps and only 12 maps included. in the end i regret my buy... just my 2 cents

x DLC Hero x @ Apr 17th 2008 7:02PM

This is the best marketing I've seen in a while. I like the humorous approach they've decided to take. It definitely helps the game stand out amongst its competitors.

Sammy D Kat @ Apr 17th 2008 8:44PM

This is a Battlefield clone with Quake characters, but the PC version was very entertaining, although I feel that the Strogg have an advantage over the humans. Hopefully it ports well to the XBOX.

BTW, a chick did the marketing for this, so for all of you dudes that think chicks don't know games - FU!

Strogg!!!