Awesome Machinima

This machinima captures the essence of Michael Bay’s Transformers movies. If only this was released back in 2007, then we would have saved hours of our lives. ALL THE BUTTS, ROLL OUT!

Tyrannicon’s epic machinima makes use of Skyrim, various mods, 500 Draugr, 200 skeletons, 500 Dwarven Warriors and a dragon. Our graphic cards would melt if we tried to run this in real time.

There’s no story in this Battlefield 3 machinima. It’s more of an FPS gamer’s daydream, as YouTuber JackFrags rambos his way through the Davamand Peak map. Song is Departure by Ed Harrison.

From YouTuber NinjaZ3R0 comes a Grand Theft Auto machinima featuring two detectives who go by their own one of the detectives’ own rules, resulting in either bad-ass stunts or bad-ass injuries.

YouTuber CraftedMovie made a commenter’s wish come true and rendered the entire opening of The Simpsons in Minecraft. We can’t help but think that Maggie got the short end of the, uhm, brick.

YouTuber Armago24x has justified the existence of hats and accessories in Team Fortress 2. They’re for machinima, like this remake of the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim trailer. Guess who the dragon is.

(NSFW: Language) A car chase machinima by YouTube user darkheart13. Just when you think things can’t get any crazier, Niko and the cops top each other off with increasingly ridiculous tactics.

Alan Marsala and Chance McManus combined footage from Halo: Reach with live action – and cheesy acting – to make their short film, You Will Never Get The Power Core.

You’ve seen Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot monologue juxtaposed against earthly scenery. Now watch Ian Wallace’ updated take on Sagan’s humbling speech, using CGI from Halo: Reach.

GameTrailers member MessenjahMatt re-created the classic Jordan Vs. Jordan Gatorade commercial using the practice arena replay mode in NBA 2K10. A side-by-side comparison shows how close he got.

Set to Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day”, the epic battlefields of Empire: Total War take on a somber and hauntingly beautiful tone with this machinima video; war… it’s caaannon-tastic!

This Trek Parody is not only a funny spoof of the new Star Trek film, but also shows off The Sims 3 movie mashup tool; it’ll let you boldly go where no machinima has gone before.

More machinima craziness with this Wasteland Dancin’ video for Fallout 3; it uses the “Umpa” mod which basically puts everyone from Mr. Burke to the Enclave in a groovin’ mood.

Team Fortress has always been quirky, but this machinima video turns its zaniness into a virtual art form, with Lord of the Dance like death sequences and tennis with rocket launchers.