Videos Digest | March 2021
Nikita SidorenkoVideos Digest Relaunch.
From now on, the Videos Digest will be released at the beginning of each month. The main focus is to create context: interesting and unusual video content, new genres, all CG and live-action videos, all launch trailers, etc.
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First Class Trouble - Safety Onboard Instructional Film
Humorous animated survival tips for First Class Trouble. Reminds me of the trailers for Fallout. Retro-style, nice animation.
Rainbow Six Siege: Crimson Heist Story Trailer | Ubisoft
An animated story about a new operative in Rainbow Six: Siege.
Genesis Noir - Launch Trailer
It's just beautiful.
CGI
Outriders | Appreciate Power
Nice CGI video with pieces of the lore, heroes and their abilities.
PUBG MOBILE: The Growth
CG video to celebrate 1 billion downloads of PUBG MOBILE. Slightly overlong and bugging on the dynamics. Based on a trope with rewinding time and second chances.
Zero Crisis Story Cinematic for Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 6
Cinematic with a new story fragment for the new season in Fortnite. With licensed characters from our favorite movies and references to classic movie scenes.
Sub Rosa - Cinematic Early Access Trailer
Unusual style. Just the way Devolver Digital likes it.
Hyper Scape - Basilisk's Story | CGI Trailer
Hyper Scape has followed in the footsteps of Apex Legends and is starting to tell the lore through CGI videos.
Goodbye Old Stuff! Hammer Jam is BACK! (Clash Of Clans Official)
New funny CGI-musical for Clash of Clans.
Live-action Videos
Боевой пропуск: IV сезон в World of Tanks. Операция «ИГЛА»
The game industry doesn't often use live-action videos to promote games. Especially with a duration of ~15 minutes. Recent ones I can recall are a short series for Escape from Tarkov and a PUBG video. According to the statistics, our audience is ready to watch videos of such duration.
Total War: ROME REMASTERED Announce Trailer - Take Back Your Empire
The Total War: ROME remaster has been announced with a live-action trailer.
Who Is Stealthlord66? - Apex Legends / Nintendo Switch
Apex Legends promotes the release on Switch with a live-action commercial.
Black Desert Online - Official Live Action Trailer
Black Desert Online mixed gameplay with live-action footage of what the game has to offer the player.
Interesting
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate - Cutscene Controller: Scorpion | PS CC
An interesting format has been launched on the PlayStation channel. The presenter tells the story of the characters by studying the cutscenes, rewinding and pausing the videos at the right moments to focus on the details.
We can look closely at the genre and think about whether, for example, WoT should do something similar to communicate the new lore more clearly. For example, in the format of a section in WoT and Karina.
DEATHLOOP Explained
The genre Explained in a not-so-common way. The game director on camera personally presents the game and its basic mechanics. At the same time they use the main game mechanics — the time loop — in the presentation itself.
PUBG MOBILE | PUBG MOBILE x Godzilla vs. Kong
PUBG MOBILE has gone the way of Fortnite and are making crossovers. There was already a crossover with the Metro series.
Now it's a crossover with Godzilla vs Kong. There is good editing of the gameplay with film footage.
Codename: Urban Legends
Niantic (creators of Pokemon Go) presented a new AR game.
Extraordinary Games
Inkilinati
A game for all fans of medieval memes is on its way.
Nour: Play With Your Food - AudioEmotion Trailer
A game about playing with food and making music. Yummy!
Townscaper Announcement Trailer
First of all, it's beautiful.
Other
Call of Duty®: Mobile - Tank Battle Mode
Call of Duty: Mobile has added tanks. Now WoT Blitz has a direct competitor.
Launch Trailers
In March at least 46 launch trailers were released. You can view them all in the database.
Gaming Videos Database
The database has been gathering videos since June 1, 2020.
Here are a few compilations:
Discussion
Warpath: Showdown
A large-scale, expensive, VFX-packed cinematic for the mobile game Warpath. Many interesting tricks. But the impressions are contradictory. Personally, I have a feeling that the tone and content are not matched here. It seems to focus on movie-style video, there are details that should add humanity to the characters (pictures of children, elderly parents, etc.), it seems that they show the horrors of war, but it is presented in the style of comic book movies. And it causes dissonance and disgust. It may be that I have this because my taste was brought up on the Soviet cinema of war (where everything is large-scale and humanistic) and Hollywood war dramas (Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc.). But maybe the modern mobile gamer likes this kind of approach and nothing confuses him? Share your thoughts, how do you like the video?