Most video game trailers attempt to show off the game’s most exciting and interesting elements. Adventure games show off exploration and platforming, MMOs show large groups of players attempting to take down a mob at once, and first-person shooters tend to bandy explosions about. Strategy games, on the other hand, don’t exactly have the most exciting in-game scenes, and can’t quite show off a deep, complex system in a short trailer. The developers behind Leviathan: Warships, a boat-based strategy game, realized this and produced an appropriate trailer if we ever saw one.
Not only does the narrator’s dulcet tones and smooth jive make us want to put on a smoking jacket, swirl some brandy, and suss out the best strategy for blowing up enemy warships, but the self-awareness of the pitch is downright refreshing.
If you have been paying attention, after the Humble Indie Bundlehelped the indie market explode, the term “indie game” began describing a genre of gameplay and aesthetics as much as it described the method of funding put into the game. At some point, if you’ve seen enough indie game trailers, you might start to sour on how each game acts completely unaware that it’s just another physics-based puzzle platformer with a “retro” aesthetic. The developers behind Leviathan: Warships seem to be fully aware that strategy games are slow and difficult to convey as exciting in a short trailer. So, they thankfully played to that, and gave the world one of the best video game trailers we’ve seen in recent memory.
Paradox Interactive’s totally chill turn-based naval strategy game will release on April 30, for Windows and OS X, as well as for iOS and Android tablets. If you’re into strategy games, Leviathan: Warships actually looks pretty good. However, we’d be happy if the team that made the above trailer took a break from game development and became video game trailer consultants.
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