+Carlosrvm1990 Yeah, stick with the trailer; it's phenomenal. It's not representative of the actual game at all though. I did have some fun with the game, flaws and all, but it's not the game this trailer is selling. It's just mindless zombie smashing, no heart at all.
that's because you're all pathetic manchildren this jank shit trailer is full of continuity errors and is just an obvious cheaply thrown together desperate emotion grab pathetic
Even nine years later, this is still one of the best video game trailers I’ve seen. In fact, considering the game that ended up being, this trailer had no right to be as good as it is.
This is still so effective. The contrast between the silent, slow motion backwards story that shows you every detail, and the fully audible, forwards story that only conveys shadowy panic and horror. And there's just something compelling about that moment when both stories converge. It's inevitable; you already know what's happened and what will happen, but there's this moment in between, where the relief of daughter being rescued (forwards) mingles with the surrender of the daughter to a fate that claimed her all along (backwards), and I don't know why it gets to me so much. Something about that instant of hope, surrounded by doom on all sides, existing in spite of it, for only a heartbeat.
Also the fact that the scene ends with the backwards, slow-motion timeline (after the real horror has already happened and its reminding you that they are basically already all dead). Such a powerful tragedy.
kinda like a double helix format of storytelling, along with the soundtrack is a trifecta. even more depth when used in anologies to relatable family tragedies like cancer or whatnot. this kinda of stuff is hard to comeby these days IMO
As a filmmaker, I must say I hope the marketing team or whoever made this trailer considers entering it into festivals for shorts, because this is an EXQUISITE piece of filmmaking. Simply beautiful.
Zombie: “hey man, sorry ‘bout the intrusion- here let me put your door back together. Dude: no problem, mate. Here- take my daughter as a gift. Zombie: thanks mate.
I've seen numerous documented horrors of war that no person should see in a perfect moral and just world... but this game trailer still makes me cry like it did 11 years ago. This trailer is a masterpiece.
It’s been a decade..I still circle back to this trailer every now and again. As a father of daughters it gets me every time. The music pulls the whole thing together and a find myself reviewing all the comments where I find all you other kindred spirits who love it and return to it just as I did tonight.
10 years later and this is still one of the best made game trailers ever. Cinematically it is a masterpiece. The story telling in this small trailer is above and beyond that of whole games in the year 2021. It is beautifully written, and perfectly executed. To bad the game was not of the same quality. But when I think of great game trailers. This is the one I tell people to watch.
2:29: The moment when the father's eyes meet the girl's, and it plays as if they are sharing one last moment before he gives her back to the zombies, is one of the most affecting things I have ever seen.
This is hands down one of the most heart breaking video game trailers I have ever witnessed. The song used and the way the trailer is player in reverse, sure does pull at my heart strings.
I've never been big on Zombies or anything traditionally horror or scary, so I had never seen the trailer for Dead Island-or even hear about how chilling it was until it was mentioned in a Saddest Video Game Easter Eggs/Moments video on Tiktok. "It's the trailer for what I've heard is a standard hack/slash zombie game from eleven years ago." I told myself, opening RUclips. "There's no way it can be that bad?" Aprox 4 minutes later, I am now blinking back tears. Heartwrenching masterpiece.
I just came back to show the trailer to my bf and he's never heard of dead Island , so I thought the best place to start is where we all started , with the trailer that made us all cry back in 2011.
@@mrchewtoy Why? It's a hauntingly beautiful piece of instrumental music from a critically acclaimed composer, that happened to be used in one of the best video game trailers of all time. If you think that's cringy, you're a fucking idiot.
I know this comment is 4 years old, but I can't help but agree with you. Saying something is genius is basically the highest possible praise I can give something, and this fucking earned it. The music, the subject matter, every single individual edit and the cuts from moving forward to backward, right down to the last shot looking like a renaissance painting, is sheer genius. I just needed to share that with someone.
I'm just going to say that the Dead Island trailer was the best trailer of any game or movie. I mean within 3 minutes it establishes feeling for the characters, struggle, plot. Basically a whole damn movie in 3 minutes. Never have I seen any trailer that has accomplished exactly what it set out to do so perfectly.
I was bewildered, GOAT... Greatest of all time, rap? Eminem, Greatest game, awards? Then an image of a goat flailing about screaming "AAAAaaaaaaaaa" came on. Got me from sad to laughing really fast.
i think the game was originally suppose to be like this, back in 2007 they said the game was single player and about a man who lost his wife after the outbreak and now, you have to find her. But, when you get to her, the infected got to her first. i still refuse to play dead island because i waited a LONG time for this game, just to get a multiplayer slasher game , it still bothers me they did that.... it could of been a GREAT Horror game. what a bunch of shit, atleast dead island 2s trailer fits the game better.
Fucking A. I felt like I was doing bitch errands the whole time. If the game was anything near what this trailer was, it would have been a truly great game.
When I started the game and got "Who do you Voodoo b*tch" I knew something was up XD. I can't say Dead Island is bad for what it is, but I lost interest around the Swamp area.
the daughters look of relief and the fathers comforting smile when he rescues her sends me over the fucking edge, even playing in reverse I hope it works out for them and it hurts so much because I know it doesn't
This trailer was a bigger tease than the ACM trailer. Anyways, this is the best video game trailer ever made, and it's sad how the game was a mindless slasher
I'm 99% sure that Dead Island has been my biggest disappointment in gaming in the last 10 years. That trailer had me expecting a gem of a game, and instead I got a pile of rhinoceros shit. I go back and watch this trailer every couple of months and get angry, lol.
Agreed, but the trailer was made by a different company who specializes in video game trailers. No doubt they dropped a boat load of cash on getting it made.
This trailer is so well done, so expertly put together, and the music is still a tune I find myself humming now and then. I truly wish the game could have lived up to this trailer, it has amazing emotional impact.
Remember all the bugs and glitches with this game. Gave me such good memories to cherish I had with this game, playing with friends and completing the broken game lmao haha. Still love it
The trailer: "who left all these onions here?!" the actual game:"WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH!" ...something went terribly wrong in the communication between the trailer guys and the devs XD
This trailer had my hopes up so high and the product completely dissapointed me. I wanted a rollercoaster ride of emotions combined with an awesome story and instead I got another grindfest. The story sucks, the only reason to continue playing is to upgrade your shit and don't even bother playing it alone. It's only fun with friends. At least chopping through the zombies and fucking them up with lightning maces etc was kinda funny but mostly I was just dissapointed. Not to mention how fucking glitchy it was.
I beat this game over a year ago. It felt unfinished, but was fun. Never saw the trailer 'til now, WOW. Trailer is better than the game! Awesome trailer.
I'm replaying Dead Island 1 and Riptide before I start Dead Island 2. I just got to the room in the game that refrences this trailer and I had to come back and watch. This was locked away in a part of my brain I haven't accessed in a long time and it's even better than I remember.
Imagine if this was the intro to the game and they kept the same sad tone. A father loses his family and finds hes is immune and wants to stop the virus
Still the most clever video game trailer of recent years. Running it backwards with classical music. I hope whoever came up with that idea got a promotion.
Jesus christ, this trailer is 10 times heavier than the actual game
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God its beautiful isn't it? I have a pipe dream where Naughty Dog bought the rights to this franchise, just to make the game this scene came from.....
@@djfritz2001 they'd make her a trans lesbian
@@TheBDQJP LOL
@@djfritz2001 naughty dogs is garbage
I've never actually played the game, but I come back to see the trailer every now and then...
Carlosrvm1990 I'm a dog and I even come back
+Carlosrvm1990 Yeah, stick with the trailer; it's phenomenal. It's not representative of the actual game at all though. I did have some fun with the game, flaws and all, but it's not the game this trailer is selling. It's just mindless zombie smashing, no heart at all.
Jesteś debilem
The game was literally my childhood I played the game start to end 20 times when I was 10-13
Damn
I still feel as emotianally attached to this trailer as I did 8 years ago...
Right?! It makes me cry every time i make the mistake to watch it again. And its worse now that I have children!
me too
If you come for the soundtrack then write dead island trailer soundtrack
@@a.k8185 what
that's because you're all pathetic manchildren
this jank shit trailer is full of continuity errors and is just an obvious cheaply thrown together desperate emotion grab
pathetic
Even nine years later, this is still one of the best video game trailers I’ve seen. In fact, considering the game that ended up being, this trailer had no right to be as good as it is.
We're on the same page.
This is still so effective. The contrast between the silent, slow motion backwards story that shows you every detail, and the fully audible, forwards story that only conveys shadowy panic and horror. And there's just something compelling about that moment when both stories converge. It's inevitable; you already know what's happened and what will happen, but there's this moment in between, where the relief of daughter being rescued (forwards) mingles with the surrender of the daughter to a fate that claimed her all along (backwards), and I don't know why it gets to me so much. Something about that instant of hope, surrounded by doom on all sides, existing in spite of it, for only a heartbeat.
Also the fact that the scene ends with the backwards, slow-motion timeline (after the real horror has already happened and its reminding you that they are basically already all dead). Such a powerful tragedy.
What a well thought out and written comment, i appreciate the time you took to write this down, thank you
Gay
kinda like a double helix format of storytelling, along with the soundtrack is a trifecta. even more depth when used in anologies to relatable family tragedies like cancer or whatnot. this kinda of stuff is hard to comeby these days IMO
the team who made this trailer should make an animated movie of the island or something...would be awesome
As a filmmaker, I must say I hope the marketing team or whoever made this trailer considers entering it into festivals for shorts, because this is an EXQUISITE piece of filmmaking. Simply beautiful.
This trailer carries so much more emotion than the game it's selling...
Zombie: “hey man, sorry ‘bout the intrusion- here let me put your door back together.
Dude: no problem, mate. Here- take my daughter as a gift.
Zombie: thanks mate.
🤣
Underrated comment
😂😂😂
lmfao
COMEDY GOLD! !!!
I've seen numerous documented horrors of war that no person should see in a perfect moral and just world... but this game trailer still makes me cry like it did 11 years ago. This trailer is a masterpiece.
Can relate and agree 100%
Who would think this would turn into a mindless zombie slasher
I really did have high hopes for this game
me too
Yeah it's kinda sad it (was) all developed like that... :\
I'm not going to rant and swear but yeah the game feels rushed but at the same time it's ok . I don't know it feels like it should of waited a bit
not me kid.
It’s been a decade..I still circle back to this trailer every now and again. As a father of daughters it gets me every time. The music pulls the whole thing together and a find myself reviewing all the comments where I find all you other kindred spirits who love it and return to it just as I did tonight.
great comment
I still do
This is the greatest trailer of all-time.
Shady Mike Gaming infinity war is calling
What about dead island 2 trailer
@@dcgamerrock7844 I hope you mean dead island 1....
I meant dead island 2
its very similar to the opening of TLOU 1
Edit: or some of the later TellTale Walking Dead season 1 trailers
Sad to see that the trailer is a lot more fun and has more replay value than the game itself.
And that's the truth. It's 2016, people are still watching this.
@@leeeverett1278 2019 now
@@CigSour 2020 helou :v
@@garet7437 3267, what you mean?
I'm still playing the game too
10 years later and this is still one of the best made game trailers ever. Cinematically it is a masterpiece. The story telling in this small trailer is above and beyond that of whole games in the year 2021. It is beautifully written, and perfectly executed. To bad the game was not of the same quality. But when I think of great game trailers. This is the one I tell people to watch.
The walking dead game trailers (the new one's) are better too
it completely fails as a "trailer"
@@kubli365 what's wrong
2:29: The moment when the father's eyes meet the girl's, and it plays as if they are sharing one last moment before he gives her back to the zombies, is one of the most affecting things I have ever seen.
i always figured this was a producers self insert to losing his kid to illness
This is hands down one of the most heart breaking video game trailers I have ever witnessed. The song used and the way the trailer is player in reverse, sure does pull at my heart strings.
I've never been big on Zombies or anything traditionally horror or scary, so I had never seen the trailer for Dead Island-or even hear about how chilling it was until it was mentioned in a Saddest Video Game Easter Eggs/Moments video on Tiktok.
"It's the trailer for what I've heard is a standard hack/slash zombie game from eleven years ago." I told myself, opening RUclips. "There's no way it can be that bad?"
Aprox 4 minutes later, I am now blinking back tears. Heartwrenching masterpiece.
I feel so sad.
I know right!? It's so depressing! The music doesn't help either...
Legitimately the BEST game trailer ever.... I just came back after eight years just to see this again. That also makes me an idiot
shit, same for me ...
I just came back to show the trailer to my bf and he's never heard of dead Island , so I thought the best place to start is where we all started , with the trailer that made us all cry back in 2011.
same, i havent even played the game lol
how does that make you an idiot?
The best emotional game trailer of all time deserves a Oscar nomination even better the award-winning category for best game trailer
I walked down the aisle to this piece of music
How many zombies in attendance?
That's cringy as fuck lmao
@@mrchewtoy Why? It's a hauntingly beautiful piece of instrumental music from a critically acclaimed composer, that happened to be used in one of the best video game trailers of all time. If you think that's cringy, you're a fucking idiot.
@@mrchewtoy I doubt anyone at her wedding recognized this nondescript piano tune you donut
@@mrchewtoy you're just jealous cause noone will marry your bitch ass
This deserves an Oscar.
This is the best video game trailer of all time.
9 years and it still one of the best game trailers I've ever seen. It always makes me cut onions...sniff...lol.
without doubt this is the most sad music i ever heard.
Zanarkand from FFX
and An End For Once and For All from Mass Effect 3 top this imo
don't forget these...
Mad World - Gary Jules
Enya - Boadicea
dude this made me cry, but this trailer is so misleading, got the game, nothing like the trailer
Joaquin R this is true, i had this game too, i think that all the drama was put on the trailer.
GeneralCarvalho yeah
Probably one of the best trailers ever made for 21st generation games.
I remember years back, when I first saw this trailer, I cried my eyes out so hard because of how tragic it really was... Dx
Still one of, if not the best game trailer ever.
I know this comment is 4 years old, but I can't help but agree with you. Saying something is genius is basically the highest possible praise I can give something, and this fucking earned it. The music, the subject matter, every single individual edit and the cuts from moving forward to backward, right down to the last shot looking like a renaissance painting, is sheer genius. I just needed to share that with someone.
@@janesmith1840 another 2 years and this still holds up. Still king of best trailer ever.
@@Gmankuza 3 years later
Just an amazing trailer. NO words can describe how emotional this trailer is to most of the people who have watched it. :'(
My crush's boyfriend: This trailer
Me: The game
Let it all out bro 😣😭😭
I'm just going to say that the Dead Island trailer was the best trailer of any game or movie.
I mean within 3 minutes it establishes feeling for the characters, struggle, plot. Basically a whole damn movie in 3 minutes.
Never have I seen any trailer that has accomplished exactly what it set out to do so perfectly.
This trailer always breaks my heart. Years later and I still think about.
Fr. Ngl after having a kid and a niece it definitely tugs at the ol heartstrings more than it did as a teen.
The last bits (flashbacks) really did it for me.
This is literally the best trailer ever made
Just returned to this amazing trailer after many years. Always packs an emotional wallop.
You know what would be awesome? A trailer like this... but with a GOAT.
Lol
I was bewildered, GOAT... Greatest of all time, rap? Eminem, Greatest game, awards? Then an image of a goat flailing about screaming "AAAAaaaaaaaaa" came on. Got me from sad to laughing really fast.
i think the game was originally suppose to be like this, back in 2007 they said the game was single player and about a man who lost his wife after the outbreak and now, you have to find her. But, when you get to her, the infected got to her first. i still refuse to play dead island because i waited a LONG time for this game, just to get a multiplayer slasher game , it still bothers me they did that.... it could of been a GREAT Horror game.
what a bunch of shit, atleast dead island 2s trailer fits the game better.
Don't ever play it. I felt the same exact way and wound up stopping 2 hours into the game. Absolutely atrocious, and it could have been great.
Fucking A. I felt like I was doing bitch errands the whole time. If the game was anything near what this trailer was, it would have been a truly great game.
When I started the game and got "Who do you Voodoo b*tch" I knew something was up XD. I can't say Dead Island is bad for what it is, but I lost interest around the Swamp area.
Lex Luthor At least they nailed Dying Light
Convince me, that it's not the exact same shit! It definitely looks like it from videos.
Liek if u cri everytim.
always
Liek
Every. Damn. Time.
I can cry when I watch this but I dont cry when watching other trailers that are actually supposed to be emotional. Wow
I’m going to like the video not this shitty begging comment
Surprisingly emotional.
6 years later, and this still makes me cry
One of the coolest trailer EVER made imo.
Well it's been 11 years and I still go back to it
the daughters look of relief and the fathers comforting smile when he rescues her sends me over the fucking edge, even playing in reverse I hope it works out for them and it hurts so much because I know it doesn't
One of the best trailers ever released.. I watch it every year
This trailer was a bigger tease than the ACM trailer.
Anyways, this is the best video game trailer ever made, and it's sad how the game was a mindless slasher
This trailer breaks my heart into pieces.
_Out of all the games to have the most iconic trailer of all time..._
Ironically this trailer is more on par with The Last of Us than the actual game it was made for.
Yeah
Ok but this is not "ironic"
Still hands down the best trailer i've ever seen in my whole life.
I've never cried so much for a trailer before
I'm 99% sure that Dead Island has been my biggest disappointment in gaming in the last 10 years. That trailer had me expecting a gem of a game, and instead I got a pile of rhinoceros shit. I go back and watch this trailer every couple of months and get angry, lol.
BoomBriggs kek
BoomBriggs destiny and titanfall sure beat this game in dissapoitment
BoomBriggs Diablo 3 anyone? Duke Nukem Forever? Spore? Fable 3?
BoomBriggs to me it's been the opposite. this trailer didn't seem that good to me and i loved the game
cobrakingofeart Bless you, lol.
They should have made a movie. Clearly better at creating moving pictures then games
Agreed, but the trailer was made by a different company who specializes in video game trailers. No doubt they dropped a boat load of cash on getting it made.
Fuck off dying light is awesome
This trailer is so well done, so expertly put together, and the music is still a tune I find myself humming now and then. I truly wish the game could have lived up to this trailer, it has amazing emotional impact.
I watched like 10 "Will make you cry" videos, didn't work. This video had me like in tearss in seconds.
This trailer gives me chills
Still the best game trailer out there, kudos Techland!
Here we are, in 2017, and this trailer still bring tears in my eyes.
Still one of the greatest game trailers ever made.
10 years ago.. I still here. ❤️
I can't stand to watch this. This is so sad. 😢
It's not real...
Cody Broadfoot I understand you
@@RuthlessRaDiCaL no shit genius
@@k0b128 *Sigh* say anything without having to anger somebody lololololl
@@RuthlessRaDiCaL its not that hard... just don't point out obvious shit, everyone here knows its not real, you don't need to say that
Still the best zombie movie i've ever seen.
A friend and I wrote a paper/presentation analyzing this trailer - the cinematography and the musical score. We got an A 😊
GOAT SIMULATOR!
IKR
Goat simulator is actually a parody trailer(which is comind out in half an hour)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope lolol
Remember all the bugs and glitches with this game. Gave me such good memories to cherish I had with this game, playing with friends and completing the broken game lmao haha. Still love it
This was honestly heart wrenching to watch, both years ago and now
Trailer: [Sounds of crying and bawling]
Actual game: DIE ZOMBIES DIIIIIIEEEEEE
...fuck you dead island trailer, giving me feels..
The trailer: "who left all these onions here?!" the actual game:"WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH!" ...something went terribly wrong in the communication between the trailer guys and the devs XD
9 years and I still cry at the end
To bad the game is nothing like the trailer at all.
Would of been so epic play as the father. And game end like this but in a different area close to it
yeah it is, you are in the zombie apocalypse. Kill zombies.
fuccck even all these years later this trailer still destroys me. My god.
Didn't enjoy the game much but I would say one of the best video game trailers of all time.
12 years later. I still come back for this cinematic masterpiece of a trailer. Beautiful composition from Giles Lamb.
Shit. This made me cry.
Like, no joke... god, I'm so fucking sensitive.
+sonicawesomeness Made me cry too. D: Btw though, nice icon you got there. I love Mettaton Ex
+Lycangirl124 Ah thanks! I made it myself x'D Undertale's taking over my lifee
sonicawesomeness Same here xD
+sonicawesomeness You need to try LISA !! is on Steam too!! Omg, such a masterpiece
+sonicawesomeness No, that means you have a heart that hasn't been dried into a stale prune...I got a bit shaky as well when I first saw it...
Good trailer. Good game. Good life.
Loved this trailer ever since the beginning! It makes me cry, especially with the song playing 😭 watching in 2020
Game sucked but one of the most beautiful trailers.
the game isfun
Personal Opinions dude, I disliked liked it wholeheartedly.
true
This trailer had my hopes up so high and the product completely dissapointed me. I wanted a rollercoaster ride of emotions combined with an awesome story and instead I got another grindfest. The story sucks, the only reason to continue playing is to upgrade your shit and don't even bother playing it alone. It's only fun with friends. At least chopping through the zombies and fucking them up with lightning maces etc was kinda funny but mostly I was just dissapointed. Not to mention how fucking glitchy it was.
The game does not suck. Want a movie rather than a VIDEO GAME?
If only the game would be as awesome as this Trailer implies ...
I beat this game over a year ago. It felt unfinished, but was fun. Never saw the trailer 'til now, WOW. Trailer is better than the game! Awesome trailer.
It would be nice if we get to see those three people in the actual game
You can actually find the parents dead on the floor of another room soon after starting the game.
thanks! I just replayed it and saw them on the floor.
Lovely...lol XD
It would be nice if your game was as good as mine.
Lee Everett Ain't no game is as good as yours
Watching in 2021 like "yep, this could happen."
I'm replaying Dead Island 1 and Riptide before I start Dead Island 2. I just got to the room in the game that refrences this trailer and I had to come back and watch. This was locked away in a part of my brain I haven't accessed in a long time and it's even better than I remember.
Thumbs up if watching in 2016!!!
Someone on 9gag asked "what's the best game trailer you remember?". I remembered this one.
Dead Island 2 Trailer - Dead Island 2 E3 2014 Announce Trailer
This made me cry more than any commercial has.
The game was not nearly as epic. But whoever the sales people are, Deep Silver should keep them around, cause they know how to advertise.
i feel sorry for this family they just wanted a vacation and can someone tell me how the infection started
MRLBXV34 They didn't wash their hands.
TheSteelStallion HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA :D
this man did the infeciton
Taesha Mondor wait how?
MRLBXV34 he was going to cure he's wife but it was a infeciton
Best trailer I`ve ever seen!
Goosebumps!
Imagine if this was the intro to the game and they kept the same sad tone. A father loses his family and finds hes is immune and wants to stop the virus
worst vacation ever
i agrre
Did you just respond to urself
yeah
Sluttyish Bæ
yeah
+ken leboeuf wow i cant belive my comment got pushed up to the top Lol
I was in early high school when this trailer came out. Now 6-7 years later this trailer hits a lot different when you got a daughter of your own
Who's watching in 2019???
Izzy Humair Your channels the shit
What suddenly happened tho?
i was so sad when i heard her scream. saddest trailer i have ever watched
Never played the game, but this is possibly the best game trailer of all time. I still come back to watch it every now and again.
This trailer is so much better than the game!
Then the game came out.
stil my favorite short about zombies.
thank you DeadIsland for making this masterpiece that is this trailer
Saddest trailer ever for such a lackluster game.
The trailer hit me hard, the game was actually good but not as emotional. Though I loved the gameplay even if it scared me at times
specialy the zombies that runs fast xD and the sound they make while they're chasing you lmao...
Still the most clever video game trailer of recent years. Running it backwards with classical music. I hope whoever came up with that idea got a promotion.