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The Witcher was an RPG in the classic PC style, and we loved that. The combat, however, felt a bit odd. Maybe it was because it was somewhere between action-focused murder and tactical thinking without being one or the other. This trailer for Witcher 2 goes into the intricacies of the combat system, and we are already liking what we see a lot more. Smooth combat, more varied moves, and a lot of information on how each skill tree affects your fighting. This is the definition of an excellent trailer.

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Darkspore is finally out, and it's getting a decent amount of praise. After all, the action RPG market has been a little barren of good releases since Torchlight, and Darkspore isn't bad. As with all launch trailers, this trailer doesn't show anything of real substance, just snippets from reviews intermingled with random in-game footage. Showy and flashy. You shouldn't need much convincing at this point, though. After all, the open beta ran for quite a while!

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Anomaly Warzone Earth has been described as a reverse tower defense, and while this is marginally true, it misses something essential: rather than simply trudging endless waves of units towards a generic goal, you are actively dismantling the opposition. It's not so much reverse tower defense as tower attacking. It's also absolutely fantastic, and an extremely strong first showing from indie studio 11 Bit. Excellent production values, clean and concise game mechanics, and excellent replay value make it a steal at its asking price. It is probably the most highly polished $10 game you will ever play.

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The Witcher 2 is shaping up to be quite the third-person action RPG, and this trailer just adds to the list of things we can look forward to. Multiple play styles in a single game is one of our favorite styles of design, and the Polish developers at CDprojekt really want to impress that Witcher 2 will be guided more by the players expectations than a developer-forced linearity. There's lots of information about the three major tree here, and it shows each in action: swords, alchemy, and magic. Tons of information, a large amount of in-game footage, and plenty of combat makes this a great trailer.

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We have to admit that we weren't excited for Hunted: The Demon's Forge. The crucible trailer began our turn back towards interested, and this trailer puts us all the way back into excited. While the plot seems standard enough, it's the acknowledgment that Hunted is aiming to be more about co-operative murder and mayhem than depth of plot that intrigues us. Good dungeon crawlers are few and far between, and none emulate the style of combat and visuals that Hunted seems to bring to the table.

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Another Dungeon Siege 3 trailer, another character unveiled. In this case, it's the archon known as Anjali. Turning into flame spirits, casting fire magic to wreck foes, and smacking unruly skeletons with a magical staff seem to be her fortes. As always, lots of beautiful in-game footage of the character in action, but little in the way of actually showing how they play. For example, is the transformation like switching stances, or is it a spell learned later on?

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Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale looks fun, even if the setting is a bit on the generic side. This particular trailer shows the tower of a dark being known as Rezlok (we're not entirely sure how it is spelled), and various dungeon-like areas for the players to fight their way through. Nothing particularly stunning, but it's not bad for what is essentially a cinematic trailer done through the in-game engine.

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The latest character trailer for Darkspore unveils a hero that seems very familiar. Perhaps it's because he has all the classic assassin traits: backstabbing, dual-wielding, weakness exposing, and outright stealthing. It's certainly got us interested, especially given the combination potential with his stealth. Besides showing off Skar, this trailer doesn't really have anything else, so if you aren't particularly interested in Darkspore, it's best skipped.

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We have to admit that this trailer has us a bit intrigued. Until now, we weren't too interested in Hunted. After all, it looked like a fairly standard third-person action game. With the reveal of how the crucible works in detail, however, we're suddenly far more interested. Randomly-generated dungeons, with waves of monstrous enemies to fight off? This sounds like something we could get into, especially with another person. Plus, you can actually tweak the settings to fully customize the dungeon, making it your own instead of some machine-created bland killfest. We aren't normally impressed by trailers, but this one blew us away.

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Here's another character trailer for The First Templar. Honestly, we can't really tell much of a difference between this fellow and the previous psychotic killer, besides maybe visually. Lots of killing, both of normal people and of what appears to be a giant of some kind. This trailer is so similar to the previous one that one can probably skip it, since it doesn't really examine Celian in any appreciable detail.

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