9 HUGE Video Game Spoilers That Were Ruined By Marketing

2. Dead Space's Final Battle Was In The Reveal Trailer

Trust EA to not help themselves when it comes to packing trailers with as many overblown sequences as possible.

Even the relatively subtle, corridor-crawling first Dead Space didn't escape being trailer-revealed to death, including the final boss during the closing seconds of the very first reveal footage.

Though you could say that no one knew this was the final boss, simply by virtue of Dead Space being a slow-burn horror with deliberately paced shocks, the more it established an atmosphere, the more it became clear the Hive Mind was going to be the culmination of everything that was unfolding.