Ever since Epic's Gears of War plucked heartstrings with a cover
of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" game creators have been
attempting to recreate that magic, forging an emotional bond
between gamers and game through evocative music. Let's see how
good a job Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and BioShock Infinite
did of it with their respective Spike VGA Awards debut trailers.
First we'll look at Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, the trailer
that takes a much more Gears of War approach to matching song
with action.  The music chosen by Activision and developer High
Moon Studios to punctuate the clash of giant intelligent robots
on a planet far, far away is a decidedly down-to-earth track
from Puscifer, a side project of Tool's Maynard James Keenan
with backing vocals, interestingly enough, by Mila Jovovich of
Resident Evil movie fame.  While quite open to interpretation,
to me "The Humbling River" is a song about crossing over to a
new level of enlightenment, something that can't be done through
guns or money or p