Favourite Game Marketing Campaigns (Good or Bad)

[American Tanker]

How has no one managed to mention Battlefield: Bad Company? Seriously, they had a trailer where one of these four goofballs, from a unit that's stated to be the Army's dumping ground for misfits and troublemakers, blow up SOLID FREAKING SNAKE(never explicitly stated, but the guy was hiding in a barrel and wore an eyepatch):

Spoiler: 'Bad Company' trailers

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Oh, definitely the old WipEout nosebleed poster.

Spoiler: It's the only bit of game advertising I remember*

*except that woman firing out a baby that proceeds to fly through an arc, ageing until it crashes into a grave as an old man, but the wipeout one just appeals to me more, seeing as I was pretty much the exact audience it was aimed at at the time.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

I dunno if it's the year or something in the water or what, but any ad campaign that can result in this is goddamned hilarious.

 

[PapaGreg096]

I dunno if it's the year or something in the water or what, but any ad campaign that can result in this is goddamned hilarious.

Fun fact that is the same website that got mad that 2 of the 3 playable characters in the Wolfenstein season pass is a black guy and a woman.

 

[Marik2]

I remember Dantes Inferno having such a stupid and expensive marketing campaign that it backfired on it.

 

[Aerosteam]

I dunno if it's the year or something in the water or what, but any ad campaign that can result in this is goddamned hilarious.

Fun fact that is the same website that got mad that 2 of the 3 playable characters in the Wolfenstein season pass is a black guy and a woman.

Their editorial dept. is also either slightly dyslexic or just plain careless.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I remember Dantes Inferno having such a stupid and expensive marketing campaign that it backfired on it.

You mean where they hired fake protesters, had a stupid "sin to win" contest and even sent Yahtzee a singing box?
Yeah I remember that one.

 

[kilenem]

The TF2 Meet the Spy Short, is probably the best trailer ever.

 

[Marik2]

I remember Dantes Inferno having such a stupid and expensive marketing campaign that it backfired on it.

You mean where they hired fake protesters, had a stupid "sin to win" contest and even sent Yahtzee a singing box?
Yeah I remember that one.

Yup, all for a mediocre game.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I remember Dantes Inferno having such a stupid and expensive marketing campaign that it backfired on it.

You mean where they hired fake protesters, had a stupid "sin to win" contest and even sent Yahtzee a singing box?
Yeah I remember that one.

Yup, all for a mediocre game.

I haven't played it, mostly because I never owned a PS3. Although I did watch an animated movie based on it and was thoroughly confused.