Goat Simulator nails Dead Island trailer parody

Sometimes, when you make a goat simulator game, the only logical launch trailer is the one that spoofs Dead Island.

In case you don't remember or aren't familiar with the Dead Island trailer, it's the one that starts with a young girl lying dead on a lawn while a burning man flails in the background and then moves backwards through a zombie attack.

Happily for the animal in the new Goat Simulator trailer, there are no zombie goats, axes or rapidly escalating family holidays involved here. Less happily there is an explosive goat-unfriendly visit to a petrol station.

The message this trailer is ultimately trying to convey is either that the game launches on 1 April or that you should work out whether your goat takes diesel or unleaded.

Here's the 18+ Dead Island trailer, if you haven't had enough trauma for one article:

This article was originally published by WIRED UK