What's your thought on live action T.V game advertisments ?

I'm certainly no T.V fan, but last night after putting some hours into 'Fallout Vegas' whilst watching T.V for half an hour before getting ready for bed, I came accross two live action advertisments for games.. One for 'Battlefield 3' the other for 'Skyrim'..

Personally I find these advertismentsa little annoying to be honest, due to the fact that I've always felt that game advertisments should onlyreally consist of actualy gameplay ect(and certainly not high spec P.C gameplay when advertising consoles).. giving gamers a taste of what to expect when purchasing the actual game..

It seems that the trend at present is to advertise games with 'C.G.I infused' movie themed live action sequences, which to me seems wrong.. Firstly it's kind of false advertising, and secondly,I don't want my games to look like movies in any way, shape or form!

I was just wondering what other gamers thought of these expensive 'movie like' advertisments which include lavish special effects, and bad actors..

Do you prefer these type of advertisments, or like me, do you feel these type of advertisments should be left for movies?

Fine, advertiseyour games, but stop building them up to be something that they arn't..

Personally I love gaming due to the fact that they are totally unique, and that includes the lookand feel of the game..

If I want something to resemble a movie, I'll watch a movie!

All I know is that the ad for Skyrim looked like some kind of laughable cringeworthy B-movie.

I think like most adverts its a case of there's some good and some bad. The point of them though is i think to advertise the story and probably aren't necessarilyaimed at hardcore gamers but more towards casual gamers (and i mean casual gamersnot people who play farmville and are suddenly gamers) for who the story is often as or more important than graphics or even gameplay when deciding whether to buy a game or not. just imo anyway

Terrible. TV advertisements are basely solely on consoles (most of the times)

Here in Portugal it's always about Playstation, today I've seen BF3 and Uncharted 3 advertisements on TV a bunch of times. It screws my head, since I'm a pc gamer and the freaking marketing just ignores us. Oh well, I'll just be playing BF3 on my 60fps and stunning graphics.

(no flame wars, i'm out of here)

Mmmm... gotta love that commercial cheese.

I think they are cool if well done. They are trying to appeal to people a bit more naive to gaming whom buy games for the cinematic experience alone.

On the topic of advertisements, generally the Tv ones are terrible. THe Batman Arkham Asylum was pitful, especially with catwoman. My dad was laughing at how stupid her lines were. He did like the Joker though.

Also, once a Heavy Rain Tv spot was on. God it was painful watching it with the family, when he said "everything I do, I do for love"

I think in almost all cases the best trailers contain all in-game footage. However, all those Halo live action trailers are quite breathtaking.