FOR THE LOVE OF GAMES - Epic Cinematic Video Game Montage

Check out my Raid-inspired new brutal action short film starring Jean-Paul Ly and Laurent Plancel:    • Acéré | The Raid-Style Action Short F...  

As a gamer, I have come to really love these CG trailers made by companies such as Blur Studios and Digic Pictures, that aim to give a sense of what the game would feel like to play. Often they are not representative of what is in a game, but instead what they do offer is the chance for some incredibly talented teams to create visual stories in amazing worlds.

Seen more as short films, they can be incredibly rich visual and audio experiences, that I wanted to celebrate with this video. I hope you enjoy it. It was also just really fun to edit.

Obviously there are going to be ones you like not represented here, and some that I use more than others. This is due to a mix of what worked in the edit, my personal preferences, and of course just not being able to fit everything into a relatively short time. Also, some trailers here will be for games you may consider ‘bad’, but their trailers are excellent. Finally, some are cinematics from the game, but released as trailers too, so they are included.

Let me know what I’ve missed, and who knows, maybe I will do another one.

Music:
Leaving Earth - Clint Mansell (Mass Effect 3)
Rip and Tear - Mick Gordon (Doom)
Dead Island trailer theme - Giles Lamb (Dead Island)

Game footage taken from the trailers of (in order of appearance):
PlanetSide 2
Bioshock Infinite
Halo 2 Anniversary
Elder Scrolls Online
For Honor
Bioshock 2
The Crew 2
Mafia 3
Dead Rising 3
Batman Arkham Knight
Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Division
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Marvel’s Spider-Man
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn
Titanfall 2
World of Warcraft
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Brink
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
God of War
War Thunder
Starcraft 2
Mortal Kombat X
League of Legends
Halo Wars 2
Dragon Age Origins
Overwatch
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Halo 5
Deux Ex: Mankind Divided
Doom
Mass Effect 3
Far Cry 3
Gears of War 4
Dead Island
Assassin’s Creed Unity
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Dishonored
Uncharted 4
Assassin’s Creed Origins
Overkill’s The Walking Dead
Destiny 2
Battlefield 1
Just Cause 4
Cyberpunk 2077