10 Massively Misleading Trailers NOTHING Like The Final Game

10. Aliens: Colonial Marines

Aliens Colonial Marines
Gearbox

Yeah, you knew this one was making an appearance so let’s just get it out of the way now and then we can talk about a game you probably actually like.

The 2013 FPS by Gearbox Software has garnered so much hate over the years that it’s pretty much a meme at this point. Expectations were set so high by all of the pre-release marketing, namely the trailers which depicted extraordinarily tense encounters with the titular aliens. The trailer is a genuinely chilling work of art showing the nigh-on hopeless struggle of the soldiers in their fight against one of fiction's greatest villains and if the game had delivered it would have been an absolute masterpiece.

It’s actually sort of depressing that the game in that trailer doesn’t exist because what we got instead was a buggy mess with really average graphics and a boring story.

Not to mention the fact that the game also appeared to have committed the cardinal sin of being released unfinished. Saying this one was lacking in polish is a really nice way of putting it.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.