10 Clear-Cut Examples Of Video Game False Advertising

Hard to believe now, but when it was announced people were very excited about Aliens: Colonial Marines. The trailers were an exciting mixture of both the horror and action that makes the Alien franchise so beloved. The graphics, lighting and AI all looked perfect.

Then the game released, and reviewers and fans quickly discovered that the game from the trailer and the game they got were two very different things. Instead of a tense environment with a clever Alien, players were given a generic first-person shooter where waves of aliens would hurl themselves into gunfire. When they weren’t aggressively glitching instead.

The final product was so different to what was advertised that Sega and Gearbox studios found themselves served with a lawsuit with the plaintiff claiming that the game was such a departure from the trailers that people had been misled into buying it.