What makes a trailer so bad-ass? Is it the epic music playing in the background? Is it famous quotes, the sweet animation of your protagonist killing one of his enemies in a flashy blow, or the deep movie commercial voices?

 

In truth, there was no way to grade how bad-ass each trailer was except for our feelings moments after seeing the video fade. So without further ado, here is our list.

 

 

 

Starting off our list is Dragon Agerigins. Four kick-ass characters kicking ass in a kick-ass fashion. Bad-ass medieval style? Check. Battle against huge odds? Check. Physically impossible aerobics and magic? Check. An epic dragon boss battle? DUH!

 

 

 

Perhaps the best music in a trailer since Duke Nukem's Forever heavy guitar track while he lifts monstrous weights knowing full well they'll only be used to show off. Starts slow, then as the trailer progresses, so does the drama and intensity. Many watching will be eager to know what happened to Ethan Hall(the man in the trailer) and his son.

 

 

Many people have different musical tastes but many would agree the official MW2 launch trailer was awesome thanks to Eminem's "Till I Collapse". The soldiers shooting, jumping and frantically just trying to do their job and live long enough to see the next day makes this trailer #7. IW has always been great putting together epic montages and trailers, but this one reaches a whole new level.

 

 

 

EA and Viceral studios with their, "Let's Try to make the viewers sh*t in their pants as much as possible" Dead Space trailer. Having an eerie voice sing her own version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star while having the game's protagonist being killed in many cruel and deadly fashions. The trailer sets up a challenge for the players awaiting to play the game; beat the game or suck as bad as the person playing in the trailer. 

 

 

 

 

 Perhaps the most bad-ass videogame icon in the industry today, Kratos continues the list at #6. If he were a real man, he would've been credited with killing the Soviet Union, ending every war known to man, and killing more people than currently exist. Well, a little bit more badass than that.

 

 

 

Of course this was going to be on the list. Hate him or love him, he's in some of the best video game trailers of all time. The epic piece playing in the back, the paused battlefield showing just how bad the situation is. Throughout the whole trailer, you keep asking yourself, "where is Master Chief"? Then in the 10 seconds, the glow of his plasma grenade and finally a piece of movement end the #5 trailer. Bad-Assery with minimal movement? Check.

 

 

 

If you told me there was a great trailer with a someone saying an 100 year poem by Alan Seeger, I would've told them they were crazy. But the masterminds at whoever does the GoW commericals found a way to make it purely epic and bad-ass to the max. The trailer starts, and for the first 30 seconds, you're focused on Marcus, the locust he picked up and the pounding words of the poem. War drums and a nice rhythm finish the trailer as Marcus rushes into a battlefield with a locust as cover.

 

 

 

 

 

A star wars fan's dream. A CGI of a lightsaber battle with dozens and dozens of dark side and light side jedi. But like every movie/videogame/anything interesting in existence, it's always the protagonist or the main guy that has to take on the antagonist. Same goes for this trailer, and an epic 1vs1 battle begins. Just when you think both had killed each other, BAM the evil dude stands with a smile while the good looking dude drops to his knees and slowly dies. Win of a trailer.

 

 

 

Clearly, this will go into the trailer hall of fame for AWESOMENESS. The music is nothing short of just spectacular and goes amazingly well with the action. The trailer makes you feel like Superman, but without the huge package. It's as if Sucker Punch got all the really cool moments in their playthroughs, added some chemical FREAKING COOL and made this.

 

And our number one choice is....

 

 

 

Yes, it's on the list again, but with a trailer this good, it deserves it. I'm not a fan of the games, but I'm a huge fan of the universe and this trailer really satisfied me when I was awaiting the game. The flashback of John (Master Chief) asking if he'll ever meet the things outside of his world does well to try and get the viewer to connect. Then flash forward 20-30 years and John wakes up in the middle of a sh*tstorm. Tells his inferior human's that he ain't done yet and deploys a shield grenade to protect himself from the incoming mortars (let's be real, he could've just ate them, show-off). Quickly sprints, jumps and right into a hunters (elites?) face for some extra ass-whooping.

 

So there you have it, you've seen our most bad-ass trailers, what are yours?