Of the 10 new trailers shown at Spike's Video Game Awards, there was a clear distinction between ones that only showed a dramatic moment, or series of moments, similar to a film trailer, and those that demonstrated what it will actually be like to play the game. In terms of the audience reactions that I observed, people to really like the latter (shocker!). Based kind of what on I observed, but mostly on my own opinions, here are the four that stood out as really good and then the three that stood out as lame.

#1 God of War III. The voicework may be terrible, but the action is out of this world awesome

#2 Brutal Legend. A slick mix of gameplay and rock comedy attitude.

#3 Terminator Salvation. The action actually looks like pretty standard third person shooter, but the transition from transmission static to the familiar "Terminator" theme is truly inspired. (As I predicted, though, the inclusion of five separate company title cards up top is super annoying)

#4 Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and the Damned. Not enough gameplay to be truly great, but it mixes dozens of in-game scenes to give a great sense of the downloadable expansion pack's story, characters and attitude.

Third worst: "Uncharted 2." So at some point in the game Nathan Drake is riding in a train and then it crashes and he falls out the back. Which relates to the other 99.9% of the game how?

Second worst: "Dante's Inferno." There's a few seconds at the end of the protagonist hitting a monster with a cross, but the rest is explaining that it's based on a famous story about hell, which I'm guessing most of us either can figure out based on the title or don't care about.

The worst: "Mafia II." So the story is a second-rate "Goodfellas" rip off. Anything else we need to know about this game? Like what the players do? I guess not.

I've recently come upon the absolute best and worst videogame trailers I've seen in a long while. They both come from EA.

One is a slickly produced, incredibly hacky and cliched melange of action scenes and bad acting that essentially tries to position the videogame in question as a B movie, but isn't even as good as most B movie trailers. It's exactly what the videogame biz shouldn't be doing: trying to ape outdated movie marketing techniques.

The other has fun with the fact that the production values aren't so hot and the acting is strictly B- and C-list to do a knowingly cheesy remix that embraces exactly what the game really is and uses a style that gamers generally love to present its footage. No wonder I've had it forwarded to me by several people already today.

Try to guess which one is which:

EA has just put out its firs trailer for "The Godfather II" (if you don't know all about the game already, click here for a full report).

Now they've put out the first trailer for the game. It almost feels more "Goodfellas" than "Godfather" to me in its use of rock music and the overly stylized use of cuts, colors, etc. The gameplay itself, meanwhile, is pretty reminiscent of the first "Godfather" game, save for the new "Don's view" that lets you see the whole city and what you control in it from an overhead strategic POV. And, of course, with no involvement from Al Pacino, Michael Corleone looks nothing like he did in the films. Which makes including him in the trailer a slightly bold/bizarre choice by EA.

Ubisoft not coincidentally picked the day after the day after the "Lost" season premiere to debut... the new, likely final trailer for its upcoming video game "Lost: Via Domus." And I'm not gonna lie folks. It looks really good. From the setting to the characters to the eerie music to the mystery, it really feels like you're watching "Lost."

Variety game reviewer and PC World blogger Matt Peckham says he's worried because the game is not an official extension of TV show canon. But I say thank goodness. Making a game that can only be enjoyed by those who have religiously followed the TV show doesn't seem like a great idea. And I highly doubt the TV show writers want to be tied down by whatever decisions the folks at Ubisoft Montreal make in service of the best possible game.

All that being said, there's still plenty of reason to worry. The game looks good. But that doesn't mean it's going to play well. And as someone who has tracked TV-based games religiously for the past few years, I can say that "Lost" is entering a landscape littered with disasters. Anyone play "The Sopranos: Road to Respect"? Or "CSI: Hard Evidence?" Or "24: The Game?" Or the recent "Battlestar Galactica" and "The Office" casual games? They were all mediocre to terrible. The only good video game based on a TV show in recent memory is "The Simpsons Game," which had the advantage of not having to actually be about anything in the show at all. It just had to be funny.

If "Lost: Via Domus" is even relatively good, Ubisoft will have pulled off a minor miracle: the first quality video game based on an ongoing dramatic TV show. Or am I forgetting one?