You could also see a name on the paper he wrote on. I couldn't see the whole name but it looked like the name aethelred which was the king before Alfred
Oh I am so excited to see in-game Alfred as some filthy templar, with no mercy. Not like irl he was quite holy, united England with the people cheering him, even converted danes
Narrator is Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. And in truth, Viking pretty much invaded all Brittania, not only Anglo-Saxon England, but Scotland, and Ireland too.
@@Ugnutz In this age? Viking Settlements gets most brave and fighting slaves free to fight on their side, they accept foreigns to join their customs, raid groups and religion. And you want to say me "Oh, there were only Danes, and there only Norse"? Raid from Norse fjord could have tens Skanes, Danes even some Baltics (Lattigalians, Old Pruthenians, Livonians, Varyagirs, etc.) or Fino-Ugric. + In game actualy will player character come from Norway, and Ubisoft announced only England and some Norse area at this point (London and Jorvick/York confirmed), and own settlement rising.
@@JakubNaceradsky I'm confused about what you're trying to say here? Is there really a difference between Vikings from Denmark (that's where Danes comes from right) and Norway and they attacked different areas of Europe?
All 3 of the later titles precede The Third Crusade (the time of altair and the hassashins of Masayaf) Origin's around 45BC being the second farthest back in time set at the end of the Ptolomeic Reign. Odyssey is set around 405 years before at 400 BC during the Spartan & Athenian wars and Valhalla is set in around 838 AD some near 270 years before the time of altair.
@@zacharyjones1285 Your right, BC dates always get me.. because they count opposite to our traditional dating system. Also Numbers is my weakest subject.
Odin is often in the stories told as an old man with a cloak over his head but is not to cowardly to fight. Odin is also portrayed as bloodthirsty so it would not be out of his way to fight a battle. The raven flying over the battle supports that, due to Odin having two raven to help me scout the world for infomation
Yeah but I can see people hoping it to be Ezio (or an assassin). In the lore of the game, it wouldn't be surprising to equate gods with the inheritance of the "hidden ones". They're supposed to have this "mystical" reputation of seeing all and punishing men and all. Maybe it's just Odin for the trailer, maybe it's something more "animus" related and that could be cool to tie the game with the others. We know for example that Kassandra became basically immortal, soooo, at this point, we could expect anything.
@@MARYWTHER interestingly enough, in Odyssey, they have the eagle bearer, which is a kind of signal of Zeus. In the same way, maybe you'll have a raven as your scout in this game, as a signal to Odin.
I watched the trailer breakdown. The game takes place in 873 during the time period of the Great Heathen Army. Which in the legends was lead by 4 of 5 Ragnar Lothbrok’s sons.The King that was taking is King Alfred the Great who was king of Wessex at the time. Only thing I see that is wrong in the trailer breakdown is the developers called the big statue in the beginning of the trailer Odin but in actuality it Tyr the Norse god of war and justice. The reason I know this is because Tyr only has one hand and the statue is missing a hand plus it’s has both eyes and Odin only has one eye. Just figured some would like to know this information.
thats the only inaccuracy you see? Not the century early longsword? The barbarian fur cosplay outfits instead of proper mail on the vikings? The weird shaman lady with made up jewelry, even though theres shitloads of badass real viking jewelry to choose from? Almost none of this is historically accurate. Usually they admit openly the games are fantasy with loose historical inspiration, so thats fine, its fun. This time they hired a historical 'expert' and he even spoke publicly. And everything he said was horseshit. So. Sounds more like a con artist.
HonorableAssassins I don’t know everything. That’s all I noticed because I’ve looked in to Norse Mythology. I don’t know much about the time period it’s self.
@@Faynwulf "they admit openly the games are fantasy with loose historical inspiration, so thats fine, its fun." "no worries man, im just ranting to rant." Really?
@@ThePuma1707 technically speaking, they had partial naval combat way back as far as Brotherhood, I remember there was a mission where you took out a pimped out boat and took down a ship
The trailer is, again, made by Digic Pictures (not by Ubisoft itself). Probably the best in the business, a CGI studio based in Hungary (my country). Yeah, I'm really proud of them.
Odin and the other Norse gods were always described as being part of the "daily life", and would often walk among the humans. So it's probably Odin we see at the tree and his ravens Hugin and Munin. But the gods don't need to be "resurrected", they can travel from the different worlds as they want to. Asgård/Asgard = Home of the gods. Midgård/Midgard = Home of the humans. (There are also many other worlds)
I’m glad my Norse knowledge finally comes into play hehe. Jotunheim, Alfheim, Niflheim, etc. Norse lore is full of such wonder and intrigue, I love the stories.
I was debating on either if it was William or Alfred but William had not come to fruition on the end of the Viking age and this looks like it's still going strong looking more further details It is Alfred the Great and would likely be the battle of Edington
If you paused when the king puts his seal on the letter, you can read his name. Aelfred Rex - King Alfred. He's using the spelling in Old English with the AE, but it's confirmed to be Alfred the Great, and the game starts in 873.
It is defiantly not William! The Viking threat had all but diminished by the time of Edward the Confessor. Indeed, after the rule of Cnut and Harthacnut, the throne was back into Anglo Saxon hands. This is Alfred in the time of the Danelaw, which eventually would come to a horrible end in the wake of the Battle of Malden and Ethelred the "Unready" giving up, and his wife Emma of Normandy running off with his enemy.
The Last Kingdom is an incredible series found on Netflix about this time period. Alfred of Wessex is a main character in that show...fun fact is that in the later seasons young Ragnar in the show, has a cousin who plays a large role in the later seasons. The actor who voices his cousin also voices the main male character in this game.
@@iPyroNigma Yep. The earlier games I play because of history and I am interested in history. The newer games has practically taken too much freedom for them to be historically realistic. This trailer especially is full of pop-culture stereotypes regarding vikings that shows the game doesn't put too much emphasis on historical accuracy.
oh not caring, and honour is more tyrs thing, but yes curiosity, god of magic, war, and knowledge, and yes the king of the aseir, wich is one of the 2 major pantheons, theres also the vanir wich are more magical gods to the aseirs physical aspects,
Narrator: they murder and kill blindly Ubisoft: *shows Vikings having mercy with a women and two children* Narrator: wtf Ubisoft do you even listen to what I say
@ That all may historically be true, but it's still obvious from the set up of the trailer that he's going to be a villain, even if he's not a "real" templar
He has 2 ravens. Hugin and Munin. They represent odin and their names are literally called thought and memory in old norse. He tought them to speak and were often seen as odins messengers. I hope we get some more info on this more but it's great to see something I've grown up with coming to AC. love norse mythology and at the moment God of War is surprisingly accurate.
“Odin is with us!” Comes from the fact that Odin had two crows. Hugin and Munin. Meaning thought and memory in norse. They would fly across middle earth and Asgard collecting information for him making him all seeing. If they are not out they both rest on his shoulders.
The raven Hugin symbolize thought and munin symbolize memory and he is also attended by 2 wolfs geri and Freki so it would be cool if we get odin wolfs but dont thank thats going to happen
Black flag was really my hard Introduction to the series. And it’s my favorite one. Mostly because I love pirate history and everything about it, that game was amazing
History teacher: These games are a great opportunity for historical education Also history teacher: eNgLisH LonGsWordSmen The absolute state of public education.
Timothy Batbatan I’ve heard that it’s going to be similar to the black flag story. You start out as a normal Viking then shit happens, you discover the brotherhood and learn more about them etc etc...
Technically speaking assassination is defined as the killing of someone by sudden OR secret attack for political or religious reasons. So of the Viking wanted to March down the street, kick Alfred's door in and chop him apart it's still an assassination as it's happening suddenly.
we never were actually that much of an assassin, apart from Altair i guess. In Brotherhood trailer Ezio just walks up to the pope and his son in the middle of rome. He even draws his sword and engage in direct combat with them and their elite guard. Worst assassin ever.(I love Ezio just to make sure people dont misunderstand it)
It seems to be that in these first trailers Ubisoft gets people hooked on the world first. Then as more stuff comes out (gameplay, trailers, etc...) we are introduced to the Assassins
In Norse mythology, Huginn (from Old Norse "thought") and Muninn (Old Norse "memory"or "mind") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin.
He probably know who was king alfred it never said his name in the trailer and he said he is still new at it and it looks like you dont know vikings history its a raven not a crow
That's kinda the point. In the assassins creed universe, the history books are lies and don't tell the whole truth. Like obviously in the history books, Rodrigo Borgia wasn't a templar who was murdered by his son and sought world domination. I think the Templars would probably want to leave that part out. The things you see in assassins creed is how history actually played out in this universe and the true events wasn't recorded in history Which is impressive. If in your story you go with the fact that recorded history is a lie it gives you the freedom to make up what you want.
Its always have. not all is going be spot on thay did some research on this so thay can have some ideas what do the vikings acted like or what thay believed in and stuff like that. who care the clothes thay wear or in axe is to thick thats not the point of the story thay trying to do some histhistory about vikings and what thay believed thats why its called Valhalla because thay believed if you die you will go to Valhalla thats heaven for Vikings/danes
@@CrazedJacob The problem with that is they market the games as historical, they give indications on the game load up that real historians work with them on projects and people eventually end up perceiving outlandish shit as truth. No doubt people will leave this game thinking Alfred the great was an evil scheming cultist.
I imagine it might be similar to 3 and Black Flag in that there will be smaller cities and villages. If anything we’ll get some walled cities in England.
Odin used to wander around wearing a wide brimmed hat. Imagine something like Gandalf. Tolkien actually used a painting of Odin as his model for the looks of Gandalf. A wise old wanderer wearing a wide brimmed hat.
RUclips told me this was premiering at 10:15 when I checked it at 5:20, so I told it to send me a notification. I check now at 5:45 and it says “premiered 30 minutes ago” aka while I was trying to access it. Gotta love the algorithm.
I really feel like this trailer is more suited to a game called "Assassin's Creed: Dark Age Anachronisms", to be honest. You have an elite soldier with scale armor over what appears to be an early gambeson of some kind and leather for some reason who is wearing an Anglo-Saxon helm with Roman crest and trappings who is wielding a later medieval longsword/warsword while fighting for a general that appears to be defending a distinctly medieval style castle and watching from horseback with only leather armor on for some reason (the overuse of leather armor itself is too prevalent) whose other soldiers seem to be wearing appropriate mail armor, but have Norman-style kite shields and all of this under the orders of the famous and revered 9th Century Anglo-Saxon King Ælfred the Great who they are apparently making the villain from the looks of things. And that isn't even touching the Vikings themselves who also have the useless leather armor problem as well as the strange use of furs on the outside, lack of many helms or much mail and who are wielding axes entirely too thick for fighting axes, giant hammers, period-appropriate shields from a glance until you realize they're metal rimmed and have straps instead of historically accurately being wielded by the center grip, and seem to have few if any spears (the most common weapon they should have) and who aren't even attempting shield wall tactics at all. Though it was nice to at least see one period accurate Viking-era sword, I guess.
You should play Viking: battle for Asgard! It’s one of my favorites of all time because of the Vikings and the big battles! You build up your forces and you fight the legions of Hel. If anyone is interested, I believe it’s on steam, but i would also recommend watching a let’s play! It’s a third person hack and slash
Kalle Anka haha yeah it isnt hidden cos the creative director ashraf ismail or one of the devs said something along the lines of “eivor thinks its so cool that he dosent want to hide it” something a viking would think lol
King Alfred is actually famous for trying to make all the kingdoms come together to fight the Vikings that’s how England was made but then the Vikings fled to England to take Wessex and Mercia IF U WATCHED THE LAST KINGDOM IT WILL MAKE SENCE BTW
the burning on the Longship is actually quite expensive its only reserve to those of the Elite and Royal blood so not everyone gets to do the oh so awesome of going to Viking Heaven Valhalla in style
@@Novozymandiaz They burned coins, valuables, weapons, food, dead animals and sometimes (dead) slaves on the ship with the dead chief so it's pretty likely that they thought these things would accompany their chief to Valhall. Kinda a way to swag off how rich you were and how much you accomplished to the others in Valhall.
I like how when that knight got hit in the chest with the axe nothing happened, the armor absorbed the hit just like its supposed to instead of seeming like its made of paper.
I just can’t wait for it I have always wanted an assassins creed game based on and around Vikings Edit: I really do hope this game doesn’t fail like the TLOU ( the last of us ) 2 Also this trailer was amazing gets better every time I watch it
I love the fact that they put the hidden blade on top. Especially when Vikings themselves were not ones to hide from combat. So the blade on top not hidden underneath shows the nature of a fighting Viking. And that little touch is amazing.
A lot of people are either analyzing, criticising or hating on this game. Me: just screaming in excitement that there is another Assassin's Creed game. No hate on the video though! It's great!!! Also you are the first person I've seen not bashing the clothes and armour they wore.
A history teacher would know that Nors gods gave names to. God no1: Tyr=Tuesday ,2: Oden(Woden in old English) Wednesday ,3: Thor=Thursday ,4:Freya=Friday
Just so you know King Alfred the Great wasn’t King of England as England didn’t exist at this time he was king of Wessex. It was his grandson Æthelstan who was the first king of all of England
fly crap nah. there was only one arrow type that could actually be set on fire effectively but it lost a lot of penetration power. the way in most movies portray with cloth wrapped around the tip and set on fire would snuff out as soon as released from the bow
@@theghosthero6173 Also there is basically no historical evidence of them being used in Europe but fire arrows where used in Asia, there is historical documentation talking about it in China.
From what I've looked at this game doesn't have naval combat, your longboat is primarily a method of traversal with your brothers in arms, rowing up and down rivers to raid settlements to acquire resources so that you can upgrade your own.
I like Mr Terry, but this seems like his weak area (historically speaking). Which is a shame, because it feeds the stereotype that Americans don't know about much of anything before the 1600's (a stereotype which is unfortunately more true than not)
Agreed. I think it's most likely due to most curriculums only wanting to teach American History (which starts at 1607) or events where America played a role like WW2, Meiji Restoration, Rise and fall of Communism, etc.). I know from my history classes all the topics taught always involved America in some aspect. Though, I try to learn more about other historical periods during my own time.
As an American I was only taught history at the beginning of WW1 and the revolutionary war was the latest we went touched the civil war a little and broke down WW1 to Early 2000s Anything before revolutionary war wasn’t even spoken
I bet the skill system will be based on how much you accept the Assassins. The more you go do the stealth tree the less you’ll look like a Viking this might even be a narrative aspect too. Kinda a “you’ve changed man.”
I understand that History is vast and a history teacher wouldn't necessarily know everything about history. So I'll get you up to speed. Firstly, Odin never died, there's no resurrection or whatever you said there. He just likes to sometimes go and check out some human battles, that's it, a Raven on the battlefield is a sign that Odin was watching you. Secondly, the longsword didn't exist in the Viking age, it was invented in the 14th century, so already there are inaccuracies in this trailer, not to mention that Brute's scale armor (really?). I also like how armor works only if it's convenient for the cinematic. When the main character hits the Brute, his axe is deflected by his armor (Like it should), but that other Viking guy was impaled twice through his mail shirt (I guess he was using aluminium for his armor). Also, I've seen some pictures of the customization, and you can equip a flail (Something that wasn't in use during that time). Also a fantasy type warhammer, a variation of the kite shield that came to use later in the medieval times, a steel breastplate (By Viking standards that's futuristic technology). So far, this game is riddled with historical inaccuracies. Honestly, they might as well fucking use kevlar armor and m4's since Ubisoft doesn't seem to give a shit which time period the weapons and armor are from. So far, they are about as accurate as the Space Wolves from Warhammer 40k. As in they are only Vikings in concept, but not in practice.
Ubisoft normally add in weapons that weren’t around in that location/time mainly just for gameplay purposes, much like RDR2 and their guns. Plus they’ve added more mythology to their games recently. I wasn’t a fan of Odyssey but I loved Origins and enjoyed the Gods just being a glitch in the animus. Would’ve preferred the Animus being optional though as I feel that, since Desmond’s departure, the modern day has become a drag and just hampers the experience by breaking your immersion with an uninteresting story.
@@tygerhil9505 I mean, how far into the future do RDR2 guns go? Couple of years, maybe max of 20 years. We don't see Ak47 being used in RDR2 and that's not even 100 years into the future. While this Englishman is using a weapon from 500 years from the future. Also I 100% agree with you about the Animus thing. It just pauses the game for a while which is frustrating. Btw, I initially didn't notice it, but these "vikings" are also using strapped round shields. It's like fucking common knowledge that viking shields were center gripped. The more I look at the details, the more disappointed I get by this game.
Depends when it’s set, might be set around the time Alfred dies 🤷🏽♂️ Viking’s never stopped invading the shores even after he died, might do the thing where the protagonist causes his death in an historical way 😂 if that’s possible with Alfred pretty sure he died from an illness he had for a long time, could be he dies halfway through and then you have to go against his son Eadward, we shall see....
@@amarson2322 Historically Alfred absolutely crushed the vikings against a lot of odds in the battle of edington, uniting England and paving the foundations for his Son, Edward. After his death, his Son Edward, combined with Mercian forces, took care of the rest of the Vikings within England. It makes me sad to see Alfred vilified in such a way when he did tremendous amounts of good for England and defended his lands, repelling the invading Vikings that were doing a lot of bad things to his countrymen/women.
@@marsh_o9609 Ageinst Odds? You realize that while Vikings on avg were tougher the Saxons most of the time had more Huscarls or Hirdmen? In battle of Stamford the English ended up with a huge advantage yet still most of their men died in the battle, even tough a good part of the Vikings dind even fight at all Sure I agreed Alfred was a good guy mostly, but doubt most English Kings were. Given England's history It's pretty fair to assume Alfred did some bad things considering raiding and rape was common everywhere in war. Also the Vikings basecly had England for a long while before Alfred and prop a while after he rose
Mr. Terry: i liked how you were able to play a SMALL part in the big battles in odyssey. Me: knocking 9 arrows at once in quick succession, splitshotting the entire battlefield in less than 20 seconds 😅
The bird you see flying after that man under the tree is a corp bird, Odin is famous to have his two corps( hugin and Munin, Hugin meaning necking and Munin meaning memory) around him gathering information while they fly to then pass it on to Odin!
7:43 a cool little detail you might of missed the. When he died he had his axe in his hand. the vikings believed if they died in battle with their weapon in their hand Odin would grant them entry to Valhalla.
As a student for five decades of the Viking Age, and as a writer of an alternative history around a 21st century Viking trading empire founded in 1000 AD, I'm eagerly awaiting this game. I loved Odyssey as well as the history in previous games so this is my must-have game of 2020.
while ive lost all interest in the assassin creed series, i did enjoy seeing finally actual armor being showed as... well.. actual armor xD Getting real tired of seeing all swords/axes being depicted has lightsabers that cuts through armor like if it was butter/non-existent. tho i do wonder why were all viking just dress in linen/biker clothing??? where are the gambesons??? where are the mail hauberk??? english two handed swordsman??? i guess those were scottish mercenaries??? well at least the trailer was nice
Dominic Romani u can see the main protagonist is aiming for necks and weak spots and with enough force a spear can pierce chainmail.... if u would know this and pay attention, u would have notice. Tho i do agree that some of the random fighters in the background prob had a free-pass on realism for the videos effects
Vikings didn’t generally wear more armor than a helmet unless the individual was actually wealthy. The two handed sword was bullshit for this time period, the closest to that at the time would have been a Langseax which basically a long two handed Knife
As information: In Keltic mythology if Odin wants to Give you a Signt he most likely apears in dreams (this time as real) vision as an old man with Raves(Hugin and Munin)
For analysis, I suggest watching the trailer once full through first. THEN analyzing it. That way you don't have questions and musings where the answer is "watch the entire thing first."
If anyone is looking for a series with similiar subject matter on netflix, i reccomend checking out "The Last Kingdom". It goes through the exact time period and subject matter that this game does... and its honestly a pretty good series in my opinion.
@@earendilthemariner5546 There are no gods in the Assassin's Creed Universe, the Isu created humanity by modifying wild apes and remaking them in their image.
The Norse often saw Ravens as a sign of Odin. Odin was often portait as a grey wanderer, a lone figure in the landscape, so seeing this man in the middle of the battle and then disapering into a raven is clearly a sign of Odin's support. Also, the Gods have their own place in the Assassin's Creed Lore, possible that it actually was one of the ancient ones.
I am pretty sure that the guy in the red cloak is a Roman expeditionary commander who is secretly a Templar, working to get Alfred to go to war with the Vikings. Ubisoft seems to hate the Romans and always makes them Templar-aligned bad guys. This would explain the kite shields, armor aesthetics, and such for the ambushing army.
It’s going to be on PS4, PS5, XBOX Series X, XBOX One and Google Stadia. And yes, it’s from the perspective of the Vikings. You plays as Eivor (your choice on the gender of Eivor), a Viking raider who is leading his own group to start a settlement in England, of which you upgrade and renovate as you play. The Ubisoft NA RUclips channel did a breakdown of the trailer with both the game director and narrative director.
London has been confirmed to be in here along with other uk cities. And a lot of Norway will be explorable as well which is the snowy region in the beggining so i dont know if there will be any city areas there.
With Origins they settled on the main mechanics which work as a foundation for all the new games they'll pump out. They probably had a small division working on assets for this game well within the release of Origins.
I was pretty unimpressed with the cinematic trailer personally. It looks gorgeous as always, but it seems they're still leaning into the "generic RPG warrior game with no relation to Assassin's Creed" crap from Odyssey. If they didn't include the hidden blade at the end, I wouldn't even assume this was an Assassin's Creed trailer at all. I dunno, maybe they're saving the more Assassin's Creed-ey stuff for later, I won't make any judgements until we see some gameplay. But I sure do miss when Assassin's Creed was about...assassins, and was a fairly grounded action game with stealth elements. But Odyssey did so well, so they're probably gonna lean more into the warrior trope for the foreseeable, at the cost of the series' core identity.
I'm the same way, I don't know why they didn't use a new IP for all this RPG stuff, the games have almost nothing to do with the Creed of Assassins. That being said, old Norse is a weak spot for me, I'll probly play this one. Also, using a hidden weapon against a man while he isn't looking, while cool looking, it just screams anti-Norse.
For a history teacher, you seem to forget that naval warfare wasn’t actually a thing in this time period...the Vikings were far ahead of their time with the boats they built. Nothing else could match them, and they didn’t have cannons and shit like that. At the very most, naval warfare in this time period is ships shooting arrows at each other.
Assassins Creed in the past: "Let's do lots of actual research so that, even though our games have fantasy and scifi elements, the general look of the setting is close to actual history as possible." Assassins Creed today: "Let's screw research, completely ignore actual history and make everyone look like barbarians clad in fur and leather, just like the vikings tv show."
I wouldnt say they stopped doing research, yes its a LOT more innacurate but new AC games have a new identitie wich leans more into the fantasy side of the universe, imo I still preffer the older one but I can enjoy the new one too
Remember when they removed the crossbow as a weapon from AC1 because it was historically inaccurate? Now they have fire swords and medusas prominently featured, regardless of accuracy. It's hard to believe this is even the same franchise anymore.
Yeah, it's a game. But AC Games in the past actually tried to portray the historical era they were set in at least somewhat realistically. That was an aspect of those games that many fans, including me, very much liked about them. I personally am disappointed that this aspect is seemingly gone and instead of an at least somewhat accurate representation of viking age scandinavia and england we get pretty much an exact copy of the fantasy-vikings we know from the "Vikings" tv show and games like "For Honor". I'm not saying that the game as a whole can't still be phenominal, but i personally am quite a bit disappointed.
I love you man. I wished you were a history teacher I had. Oof, as a graduate I miss having teachers just cause how cool and how you could hang out with them.
This might be a good Viking game, but it looks like it'll be an abysmal AC game. I was just so disappointed with this, it felt like they were emphasising the Viking side more than the Assassin side which would be more of what made Odyssey such an OOF in the franchise. AC4 managed to balance those two “Games,” if you will, pretty well, but this does not seem as much. However, I have enough faith in Ashraf to try and stay up to date with this game. Will not pre-order it or anything but I stay hopeful that this trailer was just a mishandled fluke and the actual game has more AC content in it, but...this was not their best foot forward.
pretty much have the same opinion as you, im waiting to see some gameplay or story synopsis, also since each assassin order have their own ''speciality'' I hope they will managed to turn it into a great ac game by developping and using the viking order ''speciality''
It’s like my favourite assassins creed game is 3 in terms of it generally being actuall assassins creed but black flag is my favourite one that sort of strays away from assassins creed
I feel like anyone who wants an actual assassins creed game is gonna be really disappointed. Personally I’d never played the series until Odyssey, and since I’ve never experienced the original assassins creed games I don’t the lack of connection. I loved Odyssey and am so excited for this! Feel like it would have been a better move to just make these open world RPG’s a new IP tho for the sake of og fans. The mix of a berserker and a hidden blade just feels kinda weird :/
@Mr. Terry History The Narrator was King Alfred the Great of Wessex (Later of a United England) and the Saxon Reign (but in between that time England and Denmark was united under a Danish King I believe it was Cnut the great for a short time) ended in 1066 when the Norman Vikings Invaded in 1066 under William the Conqueror and the felling of the Saxon King Harold (Which is where the Bayeux Tapestry documents the history) Also I'm a Massive History fanatic and an Assassins Creed Fan and already have bought this in the top end collector editions as with all the games before that.
Something I loved about this trailer was that the narrator said they murdered and killed blindly, that they were heartless. But we are shown the exact opposite. Vikings weren’t just brutes.
This is the most innocent and lovable reaction channels I’ve ever seen. One thing that I thought was amazing was the fact that he put the original video in the description. I wish he was my teacher
Alfred was a badass, and one of the Greatest English Kings and he who resisted the Heathen Army. Also the English soldiery kinda look like a mix between Anglo Saxons and Normans. Which at that point the earth should’ve just kneeled
I've seen a few people react to this trailer and it's bothering me that no one notices a few things, so here we go: The narration is from Alfred the Great's perspective. He is making statements about the Norse invaders which are contradicted by the images being shown. He says they are godless while it's showing them worshiping Tyr, he says they kill indiscriminately while they are sparing women and children, and he says they invade a land they won't love or call home while they're settling and working the land. It shows King Alfred putting a seal on a document which says WAR in huge red letters, and also says Alfred on it... don't know what people are looking at while it holds that on the screen... The figure on the battlefield is very obviously Odin. He's depicted as an older man in robes because that's how he was frequently described. (Odin was the primary influence for Tolkien's character Gandalf.) Him appearing and one of his ravens flying over the battlefield are both signs to the protagonist that Odin is reveling in and supporting their combat. As for Odin being reincarnated or resurrected... I'm not sure why that came to your mind. The Norse gods were considered more closely related to people than our modern concept of gods. They were real to them, and they moved and acted in the real world. Odin wasn't like... dead... or whatever to now be Odin resurrected. Anyway long comment, but there you go.
i would like to recommend to watch the reaction on the trailer made by shadiversity. He goes more into detail for example on how accurate the weaponry is that is shown in the trailer. I can also agree on The Ezio Part of the AC Series is my favourite part. The wayx you can explore the different places of italy and that you could make an impact on developing the city-sight. But mostly because of one special genius guy you can meet and help developing his inventions.
Its said that Odin wandered the battlefield and if u saw him It was either a sign of good faith that he is with you or he was there to collect the fallen
The coastal settlement where you see the sacking Viking morph into a Viking playing with kids, is that Jorvik? Are they representing how parts of northern England were settled by Vikings and populated with their descendants?
History teachers normally: "Okay kids, do page 12 part A until F"
History teachers at 2 AM:
Teachers need to read my name
Hamzah Abdurrasyinov yh they like to act like bossy at schoolbut they probably doing childish things in there house
"History teacher" and still doesnt notice the hint that its odin from the beggining when he turns into a raven...
fieriia beif history teachers doesnt know everything from all time periods
L M yeah
The king is Alfred the great the king of Wessex who was basically famous for his record keeping and fighting Vikings
@AshurIX And cosplaying as a Byzantine Emperor, apparently? 🤔🤔🤔
You could also see a name on the paper he wrote on. I couldn't see the whole name but it looked like the name aethelred which was the king before Alfred
Lukas F The name on the paper was Aelfred, which was just old English for Alfred
At least 50 presidents are indirectly related to each other by I think King John/Henry 1st.
Oh I am so excited to see in-game Alfred as some filthy templar, with no mercy. Not like irl he was quite holy, united England with the people cheering him, even converted danes
Narrator is Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. And in truth, Viking pretty much invaded all Brittania, not only Anglo-Saxon England, but Scotland, and Ireland too.
but their was two distinct groups the Danes only raided and invaded what is England while the Norse from Norway attacked Scotland and Ireland
@@Ugnutz In this age? Viking Settlements gets most brave and fighting slaves free to fight on their side, they accept foreigns to join their customs, raid groups and religion. And you want to say me "Oh, there were only Danes, and there only Norse"? Raid from Norse fjord could have tens Skanes, Danes even some Baltics (Lattigalians, Old Pruthenians, Livonians, Varyagirs, etc.) or Fino-Ugric. + In game actualy will player character come from Norway, and Ubisoft announced only England and some Norse area at this point (London and Jorvick/York confirmed), and own settlement rising.
@@Ugnutz You must too understand than Skane (Coast of today Sweden heading to Denmark) was under big influence of both Norse and Danish.
@@JakubNaceradsky I'm confused about what you're trying to say here? Is there really a difference between Vikings from Denmark (that's where Danes comes from right) and Norway and they attacked different areas of Europe?
@@senseishu937 for the time that's like comparing Germans to the Chinese.
Altair´s time is during the thrid crusade, that means the new is before that
All 3 of the later titles precede The Third Crusade (the time of altair and the hassashins of Masayaf) Origin's around 45BC being the second farthest back in time set at the end of the Ptolomeic Reign. Odyssey is set around 405 years before at 400 BC during the Spartan & Athenian wars and Valhalla is set in around 838 AD some near 270 years before the time of altair.
@@stevencallaghan3160 Assassins creed odyssey is the farthest back then origins then Valhalla etc..
@@zacharyjones1285 Your right, BC dates always get me.. because they count opposite to our traditional dating system. Also Numbers is my weakest subject.
Odin
@@stevencallaghan3160 cringe. Do you even integrate quadratics bro?
Odin is often in the stories told as an old man with a cloak over his head but is not to cowardly to fight. Odin is also portrayed as bloodthirsty so it would not be out of his way to fight a battle. The raven flying over the battle supports that, due to Odin having two raven to help me scout the world for infomation
"help me scout the world"
damn, you are Odin? Its an honor :D
and also that specific form of odin was the basis for the inspiration about GANDALF
Magma Kojote haha, I would like so sadly not, simply a spelling mistake :D
Yeah but I can see people hoping it to be Ezio (or an assassin). In the lore of the game, it wouldn't be surprising to equate gods with the inheritance of the "hidden ones". They're supposed to have this "mystical" reputation of seeing all and punishing men and all. Maybe it's just Odin for the trailer, maybe it's something more "animus" related and that could be cool to tie the game with the others. We know for example that Kassandra became basically immortal, soooo, at this point, we could expect anything.
@@MARYWTHER interestingly enough, in Odyssey, they have the eagle bearer, which is a kind of signal of Zeus. In the same way, maybe you'll have a raven as your scout in this game, as a signal to Odin.
I watched the trailer breakdown. The game takes place in 873 during the time period of the Great Heathen Army. Which in the legends was lead by 4 of 5 Ragnar Lothbrok’s sons.The King that was taking is King Alfred the Great who was king of Wessex at the time. Only thing I see that is wrong in the trailer breakdown is the developers called the big statue in the beginning of the trailer Odin but in actuality it Tyr the Norse god of war and justice. The reason I know this is because Tyr only has one hand and the statue is missing a hand plus it’s has both eyes and Odin only has one eye. Just figured some would like to know this information.
thats the only inaccuracy you see?
Not the century early longsword?
The barbarian fur cosplay outfits instead of proper mail on the vikings?
The weird shaman lady with made up jewelry, even though theres shitloads of badass real viking jewelry to choose from?
Almost none of this is historically accurate. Usually they admit openly the games are fantasy with loose historical inspiration, so thats fine, its fun. This time they hired a historical 'expert' and he even spoke publicly. And everything he said was horseshit. So. Sounds more like a con artist.
HonorableAssassins I don’t know everything. That’s all I noticed because I’ve looked in to Norse Mythology. I don’t know much about the time period it’s self.
@@xxBLOODEAGLExx no worries man, im just ranting to rant.
@@HonorableAssassins You're angry about historical inaccuracies in an AC game? Really?
@@Faynwulf "they admit openly the games are fantasy with loose historical inspiration, so thats fine, its fun."
"no worries man, im just ranting to rant."
Really?
Ubisoft hired a historian for this game...
Let’s take a moment to think about that...
Seems they hired Elder Scrolls Skyrim Lore experts. This is Braveheart lvl of historical accuracy.
@@FlorianD30 yeah like vikings never wore helmets, or chainmail, just fur and leather. This is historical fantasy at this this point.
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 They Wore Helm's but without horns
@@nenadmilovanovic5271 please tell me you are being sarcastic
@@jamessutherland3585 is it not obvious?
Pretty sure the first time they had navel combat was in AC3.
Yep, basically a prototype, if you will
Yeah
@@ThePuma1707 technically speaking, they had partial naval combat way back as far as Brotherhood, I remember there was a mission where you took out a pimped out boat and took down a ship
no assassins creed black flag
@@FSGTACHANKA Black Flag is AC *4*
Regardless of what I think of their games, Ubisoft and Blizzard make some of the best trailers in the business...
The trailer is, again, made by Digic Pictures (not by Ubisoft itself). Probably the best in the business, a CGI studio based in Hungary (my country). Yeah, I'm really proud of them.
I've always wanted Blizzard to make an animated movie, would be so epic.
@@Jordan-nt6qc i think I've seen a trailer for a WOW movie thats been out for awhile.
@AccidentalGenius 7 Most Ubisoft trailers, yes. Witcher 3 as well. You can check out a list of their work on their site.
@@Jordan-nt6qc, at this point blizzard should just become a film studio coz they can't make good games anymore
Odin and the other Norse gods were always described as being part of the "daily life", and would often walk among the humans. So it's probably Odin we see at the tree and his ravens Hugin and Munin.
But the gods don't need to be "resurrected", they can travel from the different worlds as they want to.
Asgård/Asgard = Home of the gods.
Midgård/Midgard = Home of the humans.
(There are also many other worlds)
I’m glad my Norse knowledge finally comes into play hehe. Jotunheim, Alfheim, Niflheim, etc. Norse lore is full of such wonder and intrigue, I love the stories.
Tyger Hil better than the Christian myth
I was debating on either if it was William or Alfred
but William had not come to fruition on the end of the Viking age and this looks like it's still going strong looking more further details
It is Alfred the Great and would likely be the battle of Edington
If you paused when the king puts his seal on the letter, you can read his name. Aelfred Rex - King Alfred. He's using the spelling in Old English with the AE, but it's confirmed to be Alfred the Great, and the game starts in 873.
Based on the signature of the war declaration, probably Alfred - I think I saw something to that effect.
Yes Hardrada
And that's why I speculated in which
Either William or Alfred
But as I paused and rewatched I had no doubts it was alfred now.
It is defiantly not William! The Viking threat had all but diminished by the time of Edward the Confessor. Indeed, after the rule of Cnut and Harthacnut, the throne was back into Anglo Saxon hands. This is Alfred in the time of the Danelaw, which eventually would come to a horrible end in the wake of the Battle of Malden and Ethelred the "Unready" giving up, and his wife Emma of Normandy running off with his enemy.
Give this is around 150 years of history between Alfred and William
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Let's Play?
Furkan Cebeci here’s hoping
The Last Kingdom is an incredible series found on Netflix about this time period. Alfred of Wessex is a main character in that show...fun fact is that in the later seasons young Ragnar in the show, has a cousin who plays a large role in the later seasons. The actor who voices his cousin also voices the main male character in this game.
6:52 English longswordsmen? Longsword first appeared in XIII century, while events depicted take place during the IX-X century (known as viking age).
This isn't even that bad compared to everything else
...maybe the Isu helped
yuuuup.
We must understand the AC franchise is much more Fantasy with Historical elements nowadays.
@@iPyroNigma Yep. The earlier games I play because of history and I am interested in history. The newer games has practically taken too much freedom for them to be historically realistic. This trailer especially is full of pop-culture stereotypes regarding vikings that shows the game doesn't put too much emphasis on historical accuracy.
Odin was THE god, god of gods and all humans. Caring, honor and curiosity above all.
oh not caring, and honour is more tyrs thing, but yes curiosity, god of magic, war, and knowledge, and yes the king of the aseir, wich is one of the 2 major pantheons, theres also the vanir wich are more magical gods to the aseirs physical aspects,
@Glisern dude it's a myth
Thor was far more prominent to the masses. Odin was feared as much as worshipped, because he was seen as fickle, and his motivations inscrutable.
@@m7_az605 Dude's not just any myth it's the most METAL of myths!!!
@@m7_az605 r/woosh
Narrator: they murder and kill blindly
Ubisoft: *shows Vikings having mercy with a women and two children*
Narrator: wtf Ubisoft do you even listen to what I say
The narrator is the Templar
@ That all may historically be true, but it's still obvious from the set up of the trailer that he's going to be a villain, even if he's not a "real" templar
Everything the narrator says the Viking does the opposite. That’s the point of the trailer
R!M0 technically we are following the villains path as we are gonna be playing as Vikings
@ That is such a rubbish argument, if the Danes won, history would be different and the Anglo-Saxons would have been potrayed as the "bad guys".
History teacher: We don’t want to have another anakin skywalker
Me: So he a prequel fan?
maybe but it was a meme fora while recently.
The perspective about the Vikings is from King Alfred.
The ravens are called hugin and munin, (thought and memory) he also has an two wolves (geri and freki) and an 8 legged horse (sleipnir)
Odin is often associated with ravens and they consider it a blessing from him if a raven is nearby.
He has 2 ravens. Hugin and Munin. They represent odin and their names are literally called thought and memory in old norse. He tought them to speak and were often seen as odins messengers. I hope we get some more info on this more but it's great to see something I've grown up with coming to AC. love norse mythology and at the moment God of War is surprisingly accurate.
@@1991beachboy From what I heard the game will have heavy Mythology stuff
The narrator is King Alfred the Great of Wessex
“Odin is with us!” Comes from the fact that Odin had two crows. Hugin and Munin. Meaning thought and memory in norse. They would fly across middle earth and Asgard collecting information for him making him all seeing. If they are not out they both rest on his shoulders.
The raven Hugin symbolize thought and munin symbolize memory and he is also attended by 2 wolfs geri and Freki so it would be cool if we get odin wolfs but dont thank thats going to happen
Black flag was really my hard Introduction to the series. And it’s my favorite one. Mostly because I love pirate history and everything about it, that game was amazing
History teacher: These games are a great opportunity for historical education
Also history teacher: eNgLisH LonGsWordSmen
The absolute state of public education.
People: It's like they forgot the "Assassin" in Assassin's Creed
Ubisoft: BUT BUT there's the hidden blade so.
Timothy Batbatan I’ve heard that it’s going to be similar to the black flag story. You start out as a normal Viking then shit happens, you discover the brotherhood and learn more about them etc etc...
Technically speaking assassination is defined as the killing of someone by sudden OR secret attack for political or religious reasons. So of the Viking wanted to March down the street, kick Alfred's door in and chop him apart it's still an assassination as it's happening suddenly.
Well he is going to meet the assassins so then he is going to get the hidden blade
we never were actually that much of an assassin, apart from Altair i guess. In Brotherhood trailer Ezio just walks up to the pope and his son in the middle of rome. He even draws his sword and engage in direct combat with them and their elite guard. Worst assassin ever.(I love Ezio just to make sure people dont misunderstand it)
It seems to be that in these first trailers Ubisoft gets people hooked on the world first. Then as more stuff comes out (gameplay, trailers, etc...) we are introduced to the Assassins
In Norse mythology, Huginn (from Old Norse "thought") and Muninn (Old Norse "memory"or "mind") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin.
The fact that i love AC and that i'm from Norway and i'm really interested in Vikings this is the perfect game for me, hopefully it doesn't flop
Cities I imagine we could to see would be London, Dublin, Cork, Paris, Kiev, Hedeby, Upsalla, and more. The Norse roamed far and wide.
@Drams O'Scotch Exploring Ireland as Vikings invaded the land could be a rather exciting DLC.
@@iPyroNigma i heard you can have some alliances with other kings and you can raid and raid forts play dice and rap battle also know as flyting
@@iPyroNigma you’re good at predicting the future lol
@@abrahamlincoln2584 Agreed
Sorry but he isn’t very good at Viking history like her didn’t know who Odin and his crow were nor did he know who king Alfred was
He probably know who was king alfred it never said his name in the trailer and he said he is still new at it and it looks like you dont know vikings history its a raven not a crow
Um it's a RAVEN
This trailer is almost pure fantasy.
Panzrom Sadly :(
That's sort of what assassin's creed is... so your point exactly?
They've been pure fantasy for the past like 6 games. At least their not like most companies that would've advertised it as "In-Game footage".
Shadiversity agrees
That's kinda the point. In the assassins creed universe, the history books are lies and don't tell the whole truth. Like obviously in the history books, Rodrigo Borgia wasn't a templar who was murdered by his son and sought world domination. I think the Templars would probably want to leave that part out. The things you see in assassins creed is how history actually played out in this universe and the true events wasn't recorded in history
Which is impressive. If in your story you go with the fact that recorded history is a lie it gives you the freedom to make up what you want.
He keeps pausing it and asking a question that is answered straight after
Lol, this game is 95% fantasy, 3% myth and 2% historical. Is that a kite shield in the 9th century England 🤣.
it truly is painful
You're just making this an over statement.
AC has always been "historical fiction."
The games are simulations in a world where humanity was a slave race created by a progenitor species, ffs
Its always have. not all is going be spot on thay did some research on this so thay can have some ideas what do the vikings acted like or what thay believed in and stuff like that. who care the clothes thay wear or in axe is to thick thats not the point of the story thay trying to do some histhistory about vikings and what thay believed thats why its called Valhalla because thay believed if you die you will go to Valhalla thats heaven for Vikings/danes
@@CrazedJacob The problem with that is they market the games as historical, they give indications on the game load up that real historians work with them on projects and people eventually end up perceiving outlandish shit as truth. No doubt people will leave this game thinking Alfred the great was an evil scheming cultist.
I imagine it might be similar to 3 and Black Flag in that there will be smaller cities and villages. If anything we’ll get some walled cities in England.
Oooo old roman architecture 🤤😂
Odin used to wander around wearing a wide brimmed hat. Imagine something like Gandalf. Tolkien actually used a painting of Odin as his model for the looks of Gandalf. A wise old wanderer wearing a wide brimmed hat.
Video: [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Deaf people: HYPE!
Keberro i’m deaf and this is actually pretty hype though lmao
@@stxrmbreak Glad to hear that you can enjoy it, too.
Edit: No pun intended
RUclips told me this was premiering at 10:15 when I checked it at 5:20, so I told it to send me a notification. I check now at 5:45 and it says “premiered 30 minutes ago” aka while I was trying to access it. Gotta love the algorithm.
I really feel like this trailer is more suited to a game called "Assassin's Creed: Dark Age Anachronisms", to be honest. You have an elite soldier with scale armor over what appears to be an early gambeson of some kind and leather for some reason who is wearing an Anglo-Saxon helm with Roman crest and trappings who is wielding a later medieval longsword/warsword while fighting for a general that appears to be defending a distinctly medieval style castle and watching from horseback with only leather armor on for some reason (the overuse of leather armor itself is too prevalent) whose other soldiers seem to be wearing appropriate mail armor, but have Norman-style kite shields and all of this under the orders of the famous and revered 9th Century Anglo-Saxon King Ælfred the Great who they are apparently making the villain from the looks of things.
And that isn't even touching the Vikings themselves who also have the useless leather armor problem as well as the strange use of furs on the outside, lack of many helms or much mail and who are wielding axes entirely too thick for fighting axes, giant hammers, period-appropriate shields from a glance until you realize they're metal rimmed and have straps instead of historically accurately being wielded by the center grip, and seem to have few if any spears (the most common weapon they should have) and who aren't even attempting shield wall tactics at all. Though it was nice to at least see one period accurate Viking-era sword, I guess.
Citron I expected these to be pointed out in the video. Thanks for doing the job.
Marc Bernardo if you want in depth historical critique i’d recommend shadiversity’s video on the trailer it’s really good
Seb Dunleavy I watched Shad’s review before this.
You should play Viking: battle for Asgard! It’s one of my favorites of all time because of the Vikings and the big battles! You build up your forces and you fight the legions of Hel. If anyone is interested, I believe it’s on steam, but i would also recommend watching a let’s play! It’s a third person hack and slash
Imagine if they didn't put the Assassin's Creed name on the trailer and when people watched it and saw the hidden blade, they would go "OOOOOOOOOOOOO"
*The History Channel Presents: **_Vikings: The Series: The Game_*
Except the blade isnt hidden on this dude :D Well kind off but also not.
Kalle Anka haha yeah it isnt hidden cos the creative director ashraf ismail or one of the devs said something along the lines of “eivor thinks its so cool that he dosent want to hide it” something a viking would think lol
Redpanda Xd I would think that because he’s a Viking, he wouldn’t think of using it as a “hidden blade” but as a cool ass retractable blade
King Alfred is actually famous for trying to make all the kingdoms come together to fight the Vikings that’s how England was made but then the Vikings fled to England to take Wessex and Mercia IF U WATCHED THE LAST KINGDOM IT WILL MAKE SENCE BTW
the burning on the Longship is actually quite expensive
its only reserve to those of the Elite and Royal blood
so not everyone gets to do the oh so awesome of going to Viking Heaven Valhalla in style
Putting them on a lo raft, in a wooden coffin with flame able tarps over them was pretty common tho I think. Aside from traditional burials of course.
often a chief (hövding)
I wonder wether they believed that the longship would come with them to Valhalla.
@@Novozymandiaz They burned coins, valuables, weapons, food, dead animals and sometimes (dead) slaves on the ship with the dead chief so it's pretty likely that they thought these things would accompany their chief to Valhall. Kinda a way to swag off how rich you were and how much you accomplished to the others in Valhall.
Viking kings and leaders got burried in there ships viking mounds is the biggest way we find ships today.
I like how when that knight got hit in the chest with the axe nothing happened, the armor absorbed the hit just like its supposed to instead of seeming like its made of paper.
I just can’t wait for it I have always wanted an assassins creed game based on and around Vikings
Edit: I really do hope this game doesn’t fail like the TLOU ( the last of us ) 2
Also this trailer was amazing gets better every time I watch it
I heard you can have alliances with other kings raid villages and raid forts play dice and have rap battle also known as flyting
I love the fact that they put the hidden blade on top. Especially when Vikings themselves were not ones to hide from combat. So the blade on top not hidden underneath shows the nature of a fighting Viking. And that little touch is amazing.
A lot of people are either analyzing, criticising or hating on this game.
Me: just screaming in excitement that there is another Assassin's Creed game.
No hate on the video though! It's great!!!
Also you are the first person I've seen not bashing the clothes and armour they wore.
A history teacher would know that Nors gods gave names to.
God no1: Tyr=Tuesday ,2: Oden(Woden in old English) Wednesday ,3: Thor=Thursday ,4:Freya=Friday
6:09 is that Clive Standen with motion capture ?
Delios117 I noticed it too😂
I thought as well , and the main character looks a lot like Alexander Ludwig
Just so you know King Alfred the Great wasn’t King of England as England didn’t exist at this time he was king of Wessex. It was his grandson Æthelstan who was the first king of all of England
Alfred was king of England from 886-899 but king of Wessex from 871-886
@@user-fi8sp4dp3uHow come? Mercia was independent, Northumbria and and East Anglia were part of Danelaw??? He was king of the West Saxons...
Fire arrows.
Are they impossible in every way historically? Yes.
Are they cool?
_Also yes_
fly crap nah. there was only one arrow type that could actually be set on fire effectively but it lost a lot of penetration power. the way in most movies portray with cloth wrapped around the tip and set on fire would snuff out as soon as released from the bow
They existed, but were mainly used in sieges or to set fire to camps and villages. Their use as direct anti personal weapon is the problem here.
@@theghosthero6173 Also there is basically no historical evidence of them being used in Europe but fire arrows where used in Asia, there is historical documentation talking about it in China.
From what I've looked at this game doesn't have naval combat, your longboat is primarily a method of traversal with your brothers in arms, rowing up and down rivers to raid settlements to acquire resources so that you can upgrade your own.
There IS naval combat, but it's not as big of a part of the game.
I like Mr Terry, but this seems like his weak area (historically speaking). Which is a shame, because it feeds the stereotype that Americans don't know about much of anything before the 1600's (a stereotype which is unfortunately more true than not)
Yeah he seemed clueless all throughout :o
Agreed. I think it's most likely due to most curriculums only wanting to teach American History (which starts at 1607) or events where America played a role like WW2, Meiji Restoration, Rise and fall of Communism, etc.). I know from my history classes all the topics taught always involved America in some aspect. Though, I try to learn more about other historical periods during my own time.
You dont know that you can have plenty of armor in the game thay did the research and when the vikings museum so than can have a idea its just close
As an American I was only taught history at the beginning of WW1 and the revolutionary war was the latest we went touched the civil war a little and broke down WW1 to Early 2000s Anything before revolutionary war wasn’t even spoken
@@7mriwantlightning710 i had world history so we went back to rome
I bet the skill system will be based on how much you accept the Assassins. The more you go do the stealth tree the less you’ll look like a Viking this might even be a narrative aspect too. Kinda a “you’ve changed man.”
I'm already excited for this. And that hidden blade came out of nowhere.
I understand that History is vast and a history teacher wouldn't necessarily know everything about history. So I'll get you up to speed. Firstly, Odin never died, there's no resurrection or whatever you said there. He just likes to sometimes go and check out some human battles, that's it, a Raven on the battlefield is a sign that Odin was watching you.
Secondly, the longsword didn't exist in the Viking age, it was invented in the 14th century, so already there are inaccuracies in this trailer, not to mention that Brute's scale armor (really?). I also like how armor works only if it's convenient for the cinematic. When the main character hits the Brute, his axe is deflected by his armor (Like it should), but that other Viking guy was impaled twice through his mail shirt (I guess he was using aluminium for his armor). Also, I've seen some pictures of the customization, and you can equip a flail (Something that wasn't in use during that time). Also a fantasy type warhammer, a variation of the kite shield that came to use later in the medieval times, a steel breastplate (By Viking standards that's futuristic technology). So far, this game is riddled with historical inaccuracies. Honestly, they might as well fucking use kevlar armor and m4's since Ubisoft doesn't seem to give a shit which time period the weapons and armor are from. So far, they are about as accurate as the Space Wolves from Warhammer 40k. As in they are only Vikings in concept, but not in practice.
Ubisoft normally add in weapons that weren’t around in that location/time mainly just for gameplay purposes, much like RDR2 and their guns. Plus they’ve added more mythology to their games recently. I wasn’t a fan of Odyssey but I loved Origins and enjoyed the Gods just being a glitch in the animus. Would’ve preferred the Animus being optional though as I feel that, since Desmond’s departure, the modern day has become a drag and just hampers the experience by breaking your immersion with an uninteresting story.
@@tygerhil9505 I mean, how far into the future do RDR2 guns go? Couple of years, maybe max of 20 years. We don't see Ak47 being used in RDR2 and that's not even 100 years into the future. While this Englishman is using a weapon from 500 years from the future.
Also I 100% agree with you about the Animus thing. It just pauses the game for a while which is frustrating.
Btw, I initially didn't notice it, but these "vikings" are also using strapped round shields. It's like fucking common knowledge that viking shields were center gripped. The more I look at the details, the more disappointed I get by this game.
That's apparently Alfred, so... protagonist is pretty screwed
Depends when it’s set, might be set around the time Alfred dies 🤷🏽♂️ Viking’s never stopped invading the shores even after he died, might do the thing where the protagonist causes his death in an historical way 😂 if that’s possible with Alfred pretty sure he died from an illness he had for a long time, could be he dies halfway through and then you have to go against his son Eadward, we shall see....
Why is he screwed, don’t know about this
Amarson 232 Alfred was absolutely ruthless towards Vikings
@@amarson2322 Historically Alfred absolutely crushed the vikings against a lot of odds in the battle of edington, uniting England and paving the foundations for his Son, Edward.
After his death, his Son Edward, combined with Mercian forces, took care of the rest of the Vikings within England.
It makes me sad to see Alfred vilified in such a way when he did tremendous amounts of good for England and defended his lands, repelling the invading Vikings that were doing a lot of bad things to his countrymen/women.
@@marsh_o9609 Ageinst Odds? You realize that while Vikings on avg were tougher the Saxons most of the time had more Huscarls or Hirdmen?
In battle of Stamford the English ended up with a huge advantage yet still most of their men died in the battle, even tough a good part of the Vikings dind even fight at all
Sure I agreed Alfred was a good guy mostly, but doubt most English Kings were. Given England's history
It's pretty fair to assume Alfred did some bad things considering raiding and rape was common everywhere in war. Also the Vikings basecly had England for a long while before Alfred and prop a while after he rose
Mr. Terry: i liked how you were able to play a SMALL part in the big battles in odyssey.
Me: knocking 9 arrows at once in quick succession, splitshotting the entire battlefield in less than 20 seconds 😅
Who is that? My first thought: odin. Then i heard the ravens, second thought: it has to be odin
Me: Definitely Odin.
History Teacher: “Is that Altair!?”
Me: 😧🤦🏻♂️🤦🏽♀️
The bird you see flying after that man under the tree is a corp bird, Odin is famous to have his two corps( hugin and Munin, Hugin meaning necking and Munin meaning memory) around him gathering information while they fly to then pass it on to Odin!
"Skyrim?" No, close though. Norway!
Meh. Same difference.
7:43 a cool little detail you might of missed the. When he died he had his axe in his hand. the vikings believed if they died in battle with their weapon in their hand Odin would grant them entry to Valhalla.
I was able to correctly guess on my first viewing of the trailer that the narrator was king alfred
Once you see the protagonists blade rushing into the buff guy's eye in like 5 frames , you cannot unsee it
Captions : intense music playing
Deaf people : intense dancing
As a student for five decades of the Viking Age, and as a writer of an alternative history around a 21st century Viking trading empire founded in 1000 AD, I'm eagerly awaiting this game. I loved Odyssey as well as the history in previous games so this is my must-have game of 2020.
I love how they describe all the awful things the Vikings do, and show them doing the exact opposite.
AC3 was actually the first to introduce Naval Combat. And AC Black Flag made it more useful.
while ive lost all interest in the assassin creed series, i did enjoy seeing finally actual armor being showed as... well.. actual armor xD Getting real tired of seeing all swords/axes being depicted has lightsabers that cuts through armor like if it was butter/non-existent. tho i do wonder why were all viking just dress in linen/biker clothing??? where are the gambesons??? where are the mail hauberk??? english two handed swordsman??? i guess those were scottish mercenaries??? well at least the trailer was nice
finally someone who gets it.
Longsword wasnt invented til like 1200.
Dominic Romani u can see the main protagonist is aiming for necks and weak spots and with enough force a spear can pierce chainmail.... if u would know this and pay attention, u would have notice. Tho i do agree that some of the random fighters in the background prob had a free-pass on realism for the videos effects
Vikings didn’t generally wear more armor than a helmet unless the individual was actually wealthy.
The two handed sword was bullshit for this time period, the closest to that at the time would have been a Langseax which basically a long two handed Knife
As information: In Keltic mythology if Odin wants to Give you a Signt he most likely apears in dreams (this time as real) vision as an old man with Raves(Hugin and Munin)
For analysis, I suggest watching the trailer once full through first. THEN analyzing it. That way you don't have questions and musings where the answer is "watch the entire thing first."
Glisern that’s really the point of the channel, he’s about showing his first impressions and initial reactions to things
Yea, he’s reacting to it. That is the channel.
If anyone is looking for a series with similiar subject matter on netflix, i reccomend checking out "The Last Kingdom". It goes through the exact time period and subject matter that this game does... and its honestly a pretty good series in my opinion.
Mr_Levi423 I’m literally watching season 4 of it now
In the assasins creed universe the Greek gods were the result of human experiments from the one who came before.
No, the Greek Gods were the Isu. We meet Hermes, Hades, Hecate, Poesidon, and Persephone in the Fate of Atlantis DLC for Odyssey.
@@MegaDiamondMC the Isu werent gods though
No, the Greek gods WERE the Ones Who Came Before.
@@earendilthemariner5546 There are no gods in the Assassin's Creed Universe, the Isu created humanity by modifying wild apes and remaking them in their image.
The Norse often saw Ravens as a sign of Odin. Odin was often portait as a grey wanderer, a lone figure in the landscape, so seeing this man in the middle of the battle and then disapering into a raven is clearly a sign of Odin's support.
Also, the Gods have their own place in the Assassin's Creed Lore, possible that it actually was one of the ancient ones.
Mr. Terry you should play Darkest of Days!
I am pretty sure that the guy in the red cloak is a Roman expeditionary commander who is secretly a Templar, working to get Alfred to go to war with the Vikings. Ubisoft seems to hate the Romans and always makes them Templar-aligned bad guys. This would explain the kite shields, armor aesthetics, and such for the ambushing army.
American history teachers don’t know that much about history do they
It’s going to be on PS4, PS5, XBOX Series X, XBOX One and Google Stadia.
And yes, it’s from the perspective of the Vikings. You plays as Eivor (your choice on the gender of Eivor), a Viking raider who is leading his own group to start a settlement in England, of which you upgrade and renovate as you play.
The Ubisoft NA RUclips channel did a breakdown of the trailer with both the game director and narrative director.
There's a lot of history experts in this comment section wtf
it's called doing a bit of reading, you should try it sometime, never know what you'll learn
@@AeneasGemini Shut up, nerd.
@@Ivan-gp4tr why'd you have to go hurt my feelings like that *runs off to special snowflake cafe*
@@Ivan-gp4tr Big man
Ivan you’re watching a history teacher react to a video game trailer, you’re a nerd as well idiot
London has been confirmed to be in here along with other uk cities. And a lot of Norway will be explorable as well which is the snowy region in the beggining so i dont know if there will be any city areas there.
I wonder if you'll bump into any ancestry of the Frye's whilst down in London. That'd be cool..
Jesus they just pumping them out again
It is 2 years from last game til this one it is not that bad as it used to be but you are not wrong
With Origins they settled on the main mechanics which work as a foundation for all the new games they'll pump out. They probably had a small division working on assets for this game well within the release of Origins.
I still can not get over the subtitles "[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING}" Too funny!!
In regards to armor and warfare, this is a mess. NOTHING is right.
Dan'el Jácome I know, as my name suggests, I was super exited about this, but they got nothing right, even the shields were wrong...
The Völva( the woman) In the start did not have that horned headgear or african neckrings
I was pretty unimpressed with the cinematic trailer personally. It looks gorgeous as always, but it seems they're still leaning into the "generic RPG warrior game with no relation to Assassin's Creed" crap from Odyssey. If they didn't include the hidden blade at the end, I wouldn't even assume this was an Assassin's Creed trailer at all.
I dunno, maybe they're saving the more Assassin's Creed-ey stuff for later, I won't make any judgements until we see some gameplay. But I sure do miss when Assassin's Creed was about...assassins, and was a fairly grounded action game with stealth elements.
But Odyssey did so well, so they're probably gonna lean more into the warrior trope for the foreseeable, at the cost of the series' core identity.
I'm the same way, I don't know why they didn't use a new IP for all this RPG stuff, the games have almost nothing to do with the Creed of Assassins.
That being said, old Norse is a weak spot for me, I'll probly play this one. Also, using a hidden weapon against a man while he isn't looking, while cool looking, it just screams anti-Norse.
For a history teacher, you seem to forget that naval warfare wasn’t actually a thing in this time period...the Vikings were far ahead of their time with the boats they built. Nothing else could match them, and they didn’t have cannons and shit like that. At the very most, naval warfare in this time period is ships shooting arrows at each other.
Or boarding action. Many scandinavian sea battles was fought on ships linked together to form a "stable" battlefield.
Assassins Creed in the past:
"Let's do lots of actual research so that, even though our games have fantasy and scifi elements, the general look of the setting is close to actual history as possible."
Assassins Creed today:
"Let's screw research, completely ignore actual history and make everyone look like barbarians clad in fur and leather, just like the vikings tv show."
Then you missed the point of the game/trailer AND the show. Well done!
I wouldnt say they stopped doing research, yes its a LOT more innacurate but new AC games have a new identitie wich leans more into the fantasy side of the universe, imo I still preffer the older one but I can enjoy the new one too
benjamin lammertz I mean I don’t personally care it’s a game. If this was a documentary i would but it’s a videogame it isn’t suppose to be realistic.
Remember when they removed the crossbow as a weapon from AC1 because it was historically inaccurate? Now they have fire swords and medusas prominently featured, regardless of accuracy.
It's hard to believe this is even the same franchise anymore.
Yeah, it's a game.
But AC Games in the past actually tried to portray the historical era they were set in at least somewhat realistically.
That was an aspect of those games that many fans, including me, very much liked about them.
I personally am disappointed that this aspect is seemingly gone and instead of an at least somewhat accurate representation of viking age scandinavia and england we get pretty much an exact copy of the fantasy-vikings we know from the "Vikings" tv show and games like "For Honor".
I'm not saying that the game as a whole can't still be phenominal, but i personally am quite a bit disappointed.
I love you man. I wished you were a history teacher I had. Oof, as a graduate I miss having teachers just cause how cool and how you could hang out with them.
This might be a good Viking game, but it looks like it'll be an abysmal AC game.
I was just so disappointed with this, it felt like they were emphasising the Viking side more than the Assassin side which would be more of what made Odyssey such an OOF in the franchise. AC4 managed to balance those two “Games,” if you will, pretty well, but this does not seem as much. However, I have enough faith in Ashraf to try and stay up to date with this game. Will not pre-order it or anything but I stay hopeful that this trailer was just a mishandled fluke and the actual game has more AC content in it, but...this was not their best foot forward.
pretty much have the same opinion as you, im waiting to see some gameplay or story synopsis, also since each assassin order have their own ''speciality'' I hope they will managed to turn it into a great ac game by developping and using the viking order ''speciality''
It’s like my favourite assassins creed game is 3 in terms of it generally being actuall assassins creed but black flag is my favourite one that sort of strays away from assassins creed
Serpentking 34 odyssey is my favorite
I feel like anyone who wants an actual assassins creed game is gonna be really disappointed. Personally I’d never played the series until Odyssey, and since I’ve never experienced the original assassins creed games I don’t the lack of connection. I loved Odyssey and am so excited for this! Feel like it would have been a better move to just make these open world RPG’s a new IP tho for the sake of og fans. The mix of a berserker and a hidden blade just feels kinda weird :/
@An Xileel council How? Legitimately fucking how?
@Mr. Terry History The Narrator was King Alfred the Great of Wessex (Later of a United England) and the Saxon Reign (but in between that time England and Denmark was united under a Danish King I believe it was Cnut the great for a short time) ended in 1066 when the Norman Vikings Invaded in 1066 under William the Conqueror and the felling of the Saxon King Harold (Which is where the Bayeux Tapestry documents the history)
Also I'm a Massive History fanatic and an Assassins Creed Fan and already have bought this in the top end collector editions as with all the games before that.
THAT hooded dude was Odin. Chief god of the Norse pantheon
Something I loved about this trailer was that the narrator said they murdered and killed blindly, that they were heartless. But we are shown the exact opposite. Vikings weren’t just brutes.
This is the most innocent and lovable reaction channels I’ve ever seen. One thing that I thought was amazing was the fact that he put the original video in the description. I wish he was my teacher
Alfred was a badass, and one of the Greatest English Kings and he who resisted the Heathen Army. Also the English soldiery kinda look like a mix between Anglo Saxons and Normans. Which at that point the earth should’ve just kneeled
I wanna play as a saxon in this game
That man around 8 minutes into the video is Odin, portrayed as the wanderer with his crows hugin and munin
Valhalla is not only for the Vikings ,,elite" it is for every warrior who died in combat
I've seen a few people react to this trailer and it's bothering me that no one notices a few things, so here we go: The narration is from Alfred the Great's perspective. He is making statements about the Norse invaders which are contradicted by the images being shown. He says they are godless while it's showing them worshiping Tyr, he says they kill indiscriminately while they are sparing women and children, and he says they invade a land they won't love or call home while they're settling and working the land.
It shows King Alfred putting a seal on a document which says WAR in huge red letters, and also says Alfred on it... don't know what people are looking at while it holds that on the screen...
The figure on the battlefield is very obviously Odin. He's depicted as an older man in robes because that's how he was frequently described. (Odin was the primary influence for Tolkien's character Gandalf.) Him appearing and one of his ravens flying over the battlefield are both signs to the protagonist that Odin is reveling in and supporting their combat.
As for Odin being reincarnated or resurrected... I'm not sure why that came to your mind. The Norse gods were considered more closely related to people than our modern concept of gods. They were real to them, and they moved and acted in the real world. Odin wasn't like... dead... or whatever to now be Odin resurrected.
Anyway long comment, but there you go.
It's supposed to be a launch title for both new consoles. The main character is named Eivor The Wolf Kissed.
Odin had two ravens, Hugin and Munin, thought and memory, which is why the raven was a sign from Odin.
i would like to recommend to watch the reaction on the trailer made by shadiversity. He goes more into detail for example on how accurate the weaponry is that is shown in the trailer. I can also agree on The Ezio Part of the AC Series is my favourite part. The wayx you can explore the different places of italy and that you could make an impact on developing the city-sight. But mostly because of one special genius guy you can meet and help developing his inventions.
Its said that Odin wandered the battlefield and if u saw him It was either a sign of good faith that he is with you or he was there to collect the fallen
The coastal settlement where you see the sacking Viking morph into a Viking playing with kids, is that Jorvik? Are they representing how parts of northern England were settled by Vikings and populated with their descendants?