20 Coolest Trailers For Bad Video Games

Terminator Salvation seemed like the perfect premise for a video game. Fighting giant killer robots who are wreaking havoc on a post-apocalyptic battlefield sounds damn cool. The game's trailers sold the concept perfectly. They showed off John Connor battling multiple Terminators among the ruins of Los Angeles, using a variety of heavy weaponry, and even using vehicles as needed to combat Moto-Terminators- literally Terminators on wheels! Gameplay footage showcased a mixture of on-foot and vehicular combat, complimented perfectly by a post-apocalyptic battlefield that seemed to be the perfect playground for the game.

However, when it did end up releasing in May 2009, Terminator Salvation ended up being another great example of why movie tie-ins had such a bad reputation at the time. The game garnered an extremely disappointing score of 48 on Metacritic. The third person shooter's short campaign ended up being what felt like an endless cycle of by-the-numbers cover shooting, blasting bunches of robots, and moving to the next firefight. Rinse and repeat. It offered little gameplay variety and became tedious very quickly.

While the trailers made Terminator Salvation out to be an exciting glimpse into a war-torn future of man vs machine, the reality was an all-round forgettable game that offered little in terms of innovation.