10 Video Games That Were Sold On Lies
8. Dead Island
Perhaps it’s unfair to say that Dead Island was sold on an outright lie, but it was certainly marketed as something it wasn’t.
Dead Island’s cinematic trailer is still one of the greatest of its kind, a slow-motion heartbreaker that depicts a vacationing family’s fatal encounter with a zombie horde. A masterclass in marketing, it planted expectations for a touching game about family survival.
But that’s not what Dead Island was. Dead Island was a janky, co-op shooter with surprisingly moreish melee combat and some fairly terrible matchmaking capabilities. That’s not to say it wasn’t fun, but it certainly wasn’t the tear-jerker we had been led to believe. The game lacked the one thing its trailer was built upon: a story.