There are those trailers for a film or game that cleverly explain the premise and entice the viewer with promises of entertainment, thrills, chills, what have you, building a narrative that hopefully leads to the eventual sale of a ticket or copy, all in a very limited timeframe.

Then there are puzzling clip-shows that leave you with far more questions than answers.

Case in point:

Eight of Resident Evil’s most notable characters come together to take on legions of bio-organic weapons (B.O.W.) in the newest trailer for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Launching June 28, 2011 exclusively for Nintendo 3DS, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D delivers the intense Mercenaries gameplay experience on a handheld console.

Featuring re-mastered stages from Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5, it’s a race against time as players try to defeat as many enemies as possible before the countdown reaches zero. The fast-paced, combat intensive action of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is available both as a solo experience or gamers across the world can team up and enjoy two-player co-op via network play. Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D ships to retailers on June 28, 2011 and is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.

Ok, so it’s Resident Evil characters killing ‘enemies’ or ‘Bio-Organic Weapons’, aka Zombies and other Differently Animated victims of the evil and fortunately fictional Umbrella Corporation. Twisted, unfortunate, gratuitous violence, more of the same.

If you watch the trailer in question however, much of the time the characters seem to be smashing glowing rocks. Huh?

What do they have against rocks?

I can only assume that this is footage of some capture the flag/king of the mountain game mode and smashing said glowing rocks accomplishes some objective beyond just murdering innocent Undead. Still, I find it hilarious that in the midst of all this allegedly life and death struggle the Resident Evil characters do flying kung-fu kicks into big Eye of Sauron looking rock sculptures while the dramatic music plays.

Take THAT rocks! We’ll show you! Hiiiiiiiiya!

At least it’s a momentary pause in the maiming of innocent Zombies.

Tags: Videogames, Youtube Mischief

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