8 Great Trailers For Underwhelming Video Games

8. Dante’s Inferno

The story behind this dark and gritty, very loose adaptation of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem, the Divine Comedy, is an interesting one.

While the source material is ripe with what this game needs it to be, it stumbled at being exactly that. Another hack-and-slash game in a market saturated with superior titles of the same ilk.

While this game can be heavily compared to the God of War series, it pales in comparison to what is the quintessential hack-and-slash game for the seventh console generation. And while he makes a valiant effort, Dante is no Ghost of Sparta.

It is fun to play to a point but the latter two thirds of the game however, feel like a bit of a slog with repetitive and uninspired gameplay.

That being said, there was something magical in the 2010 Superbowl commercial that had audiences everywhere hooked. It was an awe-inspiring trailer featuring Dante literally jumping into the depths of Hell after his wife juxtaposed to Bill Withers' song "Ain't No Sunshine." An unabashedly ambitious trailer displayed on the biggest marketing stage of them all.

It’s a shame more wasn’t made out of this game. A damn shame!