If you watch the new extended [[link]] trailer for Velvet Assassin and feel a strange sense of deja-vu, there’s a reason [[link]] for that. Sadly, that reason doesn’t make the trailer any better.
This three-minute, 28-second extended version of the last Velvet Assassin trailer we saw skips the Winston Churchill-ish speech and focuses on the music — Hollywood Undead’s “Young.” I can’t say that that does the game any good since the lyrics have even less to do with World War II spies than Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
Most [[link]] of the footage is recycled, but you will see the fabled taint-stab, the frolicking morphine vision and probably more over-the-shoulder shooting scenes than you’ll actually see in the game (Velvet Assassin is supposed to be a stealth game, not a shooter).
But what really bugs me about this trailer is that it feels like a me-too of the Gears of War trailer that used Gary Jules’ cover of “Mad World,” only crappy — like the Assassin’s Creed me-too that uses “Lonely Soul” from Unkle.
Oh well, enjoy it anyway.
And if I seem a little snippy and a lot late on my usual posting time, I apologize — my house got burgled 🙁