Dead Island
The Trailer Isn’t As Original As You Think
by exterminat
©2011 Nicholas Laborde
The biggest news this week has most definitely been that of Dead Island.
A highly anticipated, gruesome, ridiculous zombie survival that has been quiet since 2007, IGN revealed the newest trailer for the title and it has once again taken the internet and gaming scene by storm.
People have been praising the trailer and its content (somber piano song, sad story, reverse turn-of-events) as very emotional and unique.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but the developers behind Dead Island must be huge Coldplay fans, because the trailer is extremely similar to the music video for The Scientist.
The Dead Island trailer can be found here.
Keeping that in mind, here’s the music video for The Scientist by Coldplay.
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Notice any similarities, besides nearly everything?
Sadly, Dead Island’s trailer isn’t as unique as we all thought it was (although Coldplay weren’t the first to do a backwards video; the song was released in 2002).
It’s still a good trailer… but not as unique as you think it is.
I anticipate a zombie killing montage to the rhythm of Clocks next.
©2011 Nicholas Laborde
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Really, is that ALL you have to say? What a waste of space on the internet, and that’s saying a LOT. Someone should keep this fool from posting anything. The video, while not the first to do backward scenes (which i will note coldplay’s is ALL backward, not snippets), executed the best zombie trailer that actually made a lot of gamers feel sadness, pity, or the like. If you don’t think it’s that good, make better. Put up or shut up.
This article is a waste of the author’s time to write. Bravo to you for not jumping on the Dead Island train, you want a cookie to make you feel better?
This song is nowhere near as somber. The coldplay video is also not sad.
Wow, you missed the whole point of the trailer.
Who ever said it was unique to begin with? And since when was Coldplay’s video unique? this technique has been used for years. Remember the movie Memento back in 2000?
This artlcle sounds like it was written by some bitter Coldplay fanboy.
The trailer didn’t need to be unique, it just needed to get people interested, & it’s most definately achieved that.
Well obviously the trailer can’t be completely unique. All forms of media copy one another, but the difference is that they expand on it.
Sure Coldplay’s video director did it first. Enigma’s video director did it before them in the 90′s. And I would wager no less than 20 bands had backwards crap shinanagens back in the 80′s.
The thing that make’s the trailer to Dead Island unique isn’t that segments are run in reverse in slow motion. What sets it apart from the crowd is the short story you get in such a limited amount of time. A story which may not have anything to do with the actual game itself.
It is unique because it is touching and heartbreaking while remaining completely brutal and horrifying. Also the fact that it basically shows a little girl getting killed horribly… twice. That’s pretty ballsy.
It is unique because it reminds us of the loss that we would feel in this situation when most people only focus on wasting hordes of the undead with an arsenal of fun to play with tools of death.
It is not amazing just because it plays a few parts in reverse. There is a lot more going on that deserves credit.
Original, no…but creative, yes. For all the reasons Dave has put forward. It is horrifying in a “28 Days/Weeks Later” kind of way. I think the game may resort to the kill everything that walks without a care approach like most, but the trailer is disturbing…
Dead Island’s trailer has rewind and normal shots combine to have the effect. Coldplay’s only rewinds.
The only thing similar in all of this… is the video played as if were rewind…. Nothing new either…
Coldplay was not even the first group to make something like that. Besides… the concepts are different.