Video Blips: Batman: Arkham City, Saints Row: The Third, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and more

1072475
Monday, July 11, 2011

Whew, that was a lot of colons. The games featured in today's Video Blips should gang up on poor Burnout Crash and force its induction into their "Colon Club."

Video Blips:

• The Riddler's brain-twisters hint of an unbalanced mind in Batman: Arkham City. But that's a given gleaned from his moonlighting (sunlighting?) job as anti-bailout pitchman Matthew "Loaded" Lesko.

Continue after the break for Professor Genki's colorful products in Saints Row: The Third, the densely cluttered city hubs of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Burnout Crash's blink-and-you'll-miss-it debut.

 

• This Saints Row: The Third trailer for Professor Genki's Super Ballistic Manapult and Powerfully Incapacitating Octopus Gun somehow forgot a disclaimer for psychedelic color overload. Luckily, Monday sucked the joy right out of my eyeballs. Garfield was right.


• The cities of Deus Ex: Human Revolution act as intrigue-filled playgrounds for the discerning cyborg connoisseur. My compliments to the city's upstanding team of lighting technicians for not overstepping the rules of affixing only golden-colored lights everywhere.


• I assume Burnout Crash involves cars slamming into solid objects, but this trailer woefully dispenses with detail. If I ever saw a "Be prepared to crash" sign while driving, I'd follow common sense and dive out. After recording the impact for my imminent viral video stardom, of course.

 
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Comments (4)
Shoe_headshot_-_square
July 11, 2011

That Batman trailer hardly shows anything, but it still gives me goose bumps!

Mindjack
July 11, 2011

I hated the first Saints Row and didn’t even bother with the second one, but The Third has my attention. Professor Genki already looks cooler than Bubsy and Blinx combined.

Cardinal_on_gold_square
July 11, 2011

Yeah, is this a new trend in game marketing that I am unaware of?  The videos for Batman, Saint's Row, and Burnout Crash revealed almost nothing about the games themselves.

I guess it makes sense these days that it's no longer about bullet point features on the back of the box and more about the whole vibe they're going for.  It's probably pretty effective, because I agree that Batman looks awesome, but I mostly just feel confused.

1072475
July 11, 2011

The primary purpose is to whet your appetite for the advertised title, but I agree with you; skirting around actual content doesn't reveal much. 

Give me a straightforward gameplay video any day, I say.

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