At the start I said to myself "There is no way I will watch all of it"... here I am at the end. Despite many bad reviews you can't deny this game has a really entertaining story line. Thanks for the video!!
Nerezza this game didn’t even have any negative reviews tho? it was one of the first games of the new gen consoles and it looks better than most of the games from this year so
Earwax and Eggs A lot of people missed the fact that this supposed to be a fictional story, and complain about realism. Also, I can tell you that the enemies have the potential to get a little stale after a while, not least because there’s only one model for almost every type of enemy.
if you stop time the real one keeps attacking since stop time does not work with bosses. i knew which one wqs real i just wanted to kill of the others.
For me her rideing elephants was not the thing that fully put me off because the romans did send elephants to Britain to scare the fuck out of the brits who had never seen them before so she could have stolen a few i guess. But the thing that got to me was how she attacked rome maybe they should have made the city like roman london or something because she never got anywhere outside of Britain.
Idk how people were expecting it to be accurate tbh the game obviously took a fictional spin on the Roman era but yknow how people on UA-cam are, they want to remind everyone that they are history experts lmao.
It's mad to think how this was the flagship title of the Xbox One and now, almost 9 years and a whole generation later, this game still looks great. What a brilliant story as well. 10/10
@@YesNo-yl6wsi second that notion, the game is brilliant in story-telling and art design but the gameplay itself is awful. could be worse still - i find it somewhat fun when you are really _in_ _it_
7 years later and this game still holds up well, people said ryse was dissapointing as an example to what the xbox one could do but i dont really see it.
Optim feminist write in? Boudicca is an actual historical figure who led a revolt against the Roman Empire in ancient Britain, pick up a history book before commenting on something you have no clue about.
@@nightfall3332 and? This game is based off an alternative timeline of Rome, it doesnt matter if she was a historical figure or not. It has nothing to do with the Boudica in the game. No one has assaulted Rome ever, but somehow she did effortlessly. And even though she was beaten multiple times previously, they forgave and refused to kill her every single time just because she was a woman. She's clearly based off Hannibal and is almost a Mary Sue character. Fucking awful writing.
Art Reese The fantastic parts are what makes it interesting, when it's all facts it becomes just another dry history course. I love the liberties, I also play Fantasy and this is as down to earth as possible.
+Art Reese 300, as it was depicted in the movie + the sequel, is nothing short of a graphic novel based on an older film, based on on ancient greek propaganda, based on a true story.
+Engadieffs While I like historical fiction, I prefer fantasy more so, since you get those people saying it's not accurate. With fantasy no one can say that since it's fantasy. Earth is too limiting, history is limiting, so is science fiction, since again, you get those science dweebs who say that theoretically so and so is not possible, so fantasy it is. Everyone else can keep their science and history and plausibility and shove it up their.........
As a history nerd, i facepalm a lot. But as a general nerd.... i love this! The gothic architecture, the stylized designs, the badass characters and hateable villains. The story is awesome and the visuals great, and the cutscenes are cool. Sure i cringed a bit when the colluseum was some sort of super engineering masterpiece that's impossible to build, but who cares! There was loads of awesome stuff so that sure made up for it. Sure, the armours were not historically accurate, but when he put on the mask, oh yes, shit was going down! Who cares, the style was right on and they were romans. Not historical romans sure, but they were powermetal romans. And i do like powermetal romans, they are awesome. A shoutout to Vitallius, a badass dude. Probably my fav character.
Tiago Andrade I know that there is not much in this that is historically correct. Basically everything has anachronisms. But do i care? No, because i think it is awesome, despite me being a history nerd. That's how i meant it.
Quarantine feels! I love Ancient Rome so much that they gave me a perfect game of blood, but I feel bad for Marius coz he died 😢 Well done, dear creators
This last cutscene sealed the deal for the most amazing campaign I've ever played. I was almost in tears when Maurius was delivered that final death blow. When I saw his statue in the center of Rome and the music was playing chills ran down my spine. I don't know what the critics say but that was the best singleplayer I've ever experienced. I beat it on legendary and got all the collectibles. It's a feeling of accomplishment. The unique ways Maruius kills the enemy Praetorians is so epic it cannot be explained with words. The campaign had a lot of influence from 3 movie's Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, and the Eagle. When Marius is blasted off the ship in trial by fire its similar to the D day scene. The achievement for beating the level is saving private Marius. Secondly when Marius marches north into Scotland it resembles the movie Eagle as they are going to find a lost legion. Gladiator because Marius ends up challenging co emperor Commudus in the collloseum. In the movie Russell crow fights Emperor who's names commudus. Similarly both our gladiator/Generals are poisoned but still win. Overall excellent game and graphics are the best I've ever seen.
Maximus was actually stabbed in the side by commodus since he knew Maximus would kick his ass. Unlike in Ryse where Marius gets out of the arena with his life.
I would love see them do Ancient Egyptian game like this of War Pharaoh Tuthmose III he had like Thutmose III made 16 raids in 20 years. He was an active expansionist ruler, sometimes called Egypt's greatest conqueror or "the Napoleon of Egypt." He is recorded to have captured 350 cities during his rule and conquered much of the Near East from the Euphrates to Nubia during seventeen known military campaigns
samturrett is that not what a comment section is for dumb ass to be read and answered. not only can you not read but your incompetent as well. just another youtuber looking to give someone a hard time for nothing.
Damn, I can't believe I watched the whole thing. I was hooked from beginning to end. I thought I would only watch a couple of minutes of it then found myself intrigued by the story, animation and graphics. Sort of reminded me of Gladiator with a Game of Thrones twist. The way actors were rendered along with every thing else looked amazing. Loved every minute of it. Too bad it got negative reviews in the game play department. That is the only thing keeping me from buying this since I've already seen the best parts. Hopefully they make a sequel that improves on it's shortcomings.
24:35 York was called Eburacum at this time Also "King Oswald" is inaccurate it is an Anglo-Saxon Germanic name Britain was Celtic speaking in this period. Bouddicas wifes husband was king Prasutagus.
My god, the textures are incredible, the reflections are incredible, the movement of the light is amazing, the lip synching is amazing. It looks so damn freaking real.
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus 15 December 37 - 9 June 68 AD) was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius and became Claudius' heir and successor. Like Claudius, Nero became emperor with the consent of the Praetorian Guard. Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, was likely implicated in Claudius' death and Nero's nomination as emperor. She dominated Nero's early life and decisions until he cast her off. Five years into his reign, he had her murdered.
For a roman soldier to move about with that much mobility, speed and strength he must have: A) Incredible amounts of strength, endurance and with lots of padding to cushion the himself from his own armor moving so violently. B) His armor is leather If that's not bad enough, picture this. 1) 10:15 Sword of Damocles actually comes from the ruler Dionysius who was being annoyed by Damocles because of his power and wealth. Dionysius switched positions with Damocles to teach him a lesson by holding a sword with a single piece of thread above the throne to show him that even with much wealth and power, you face incredible amounts of danger. The sword of Damocles is frequently used in allusion to this tale, epitomizing the imminent and ever-present peril of people in power. 2) 19:02 That is a FORTUNE in iron just from the chains, not only that, but those towers would most likely be unable to even hold something so massively heavy off the ground without huge counterweights AND not to mention the ships rowing into them. A smarter investment would be to use the iron to suit up all the barbarians with better armor and perhaps more siege equipment. 3)27:10 "Hey, there are archers blocking our path, instead of forming a roman testudo formation, which pretty much negates light missile attacks, go in alone, fight the band of barbarians yourself (which will alert them of your presence anyway) and clear a path for your entire battalion! 4)31:07 Ummm...formation anyone? 5)38:50 Yes stop your men in the middle of a rickety ass bridge while you look in a forest which is clearly a very sketchy situation. 6)40:13 You would most likely suffer severe injuries leading to your death. 7)55:00 The "Go, no you go" scene 8)1:30:40 Now where the FUCK did she find an elephant? 9)1:41:00 Yea there is NO way you would even survive a stab like that. 10)1:41:19 Its the "My shield is nothing but a counterweight" technique! How effective!
About #8, during the Punic Wars, the Carthaginians armies which crossed the Alps brought war elephants with them. In the Second Punic War, Hasdrubal brought elephants from Hispania. Lots of them.
I have watched this twice, once about a year and a half ago and again just now. This cutscene movie is by far one of my favorites. One of the best plots with the best twists I've seen in a game. Heard the gameplay itself was a bit repetitive, but this right here is gold.
Why do the Roman soldiers have to suck so badly in this game? They are all shown dying in almost every cut scene when you are fighting for Rome. However, as soon as you try to kill Nero, they turn into actual soldiers and are harder to defeat.
David Watt The Roman soldiers defending Emperor Nero are the elite. They're the best of the best. The ones fighting barbarians are still glorious fighters but not on the same level.
This was such a good story. I think the central theme is one we can all relate to; as most of us feel, on some level, that we are mere playthings in the grand scheme of the universe(and whatever Gods may exist). Despite this unfairness, Marius does his duty as a Legionnaire...and as a believer in Rome's ideal.
I don't think they intended for it to be. I didn't say the story was spectacular I just didn't think it was bad, but the masturbation inducing graphics may have me hypnotized. Though I was disappointed they didn't put Nero in drag I think that would have completed it lol
Xecutionner2K That would be awesome enough. Imagine Latin phrases becoming internet memes! LOL (and I don't mean this sarcastically, as much as it sounds, it would be really awesome)
And for the extra touch, classical latin. The one with the pronounciation even modern latin scholars find weird. ex. Julius Caesar was "Yoolius Kaisar" Cicero was "Kikero"
RichHomie Baloney Well this game runs on a lower resolution on the Xbox One than The Order 1886 on Playstation 4, but Playstation 4 always has washed out colour and the PC version of Ryse has the best graphics out of all three.
AcherRollz What resolution does this game run at? Are these cutscenes real-time, like the intro? I was slagging off the "EXT-GEN" consoles, Im a PC gamer, but this is AMAZING, if this is real...? In the opener, there was physics, real time animation, cloth models, volumetric lighting, soft shadows, reflective texturig? WTF. There is NOTHING, that looks this good, or has this level of detail on PC, so we definately are not ahead of the consoles.
Scott Irvine it runs natively at 1600x900 but is upscaled to 1080p. If you had a 4k monitor or tv, it would be upscaled to that as well, although I imagine there would be a lot of quality degradation.
Scott Irvine We have stuff that looks this good,ever looked at crysis 1? modded? 2007 game lmao. or any of the Crysis games for that matter, The witcher 3, Metro Last Light. If you have a very powerful PC that is. No offensive to console players, but the next-gen consoles are weak compared to PC's and we have graphics better than this. Ryse looks awesome,And the new consoles are great. But to say the consoles are ahead of PC or on par with PC , thats just complete nonsense. A single 300 euro videocard has more rendering power than the entire PS4. Just to give you a impression of where PC is in terms of technology.
this is such an ethnic game. The only Roman I see in this is the inspiration for the armour. The rest is american. Even the gestures and mouth movement.
The accents in the game are British, not American. Holy shit you're an idiot. This game was made by crytek. It's not an American company. How can you not tell what accents are used?
Mert Ece According to the ancient Romans. Yes they were.lol But in all seriousness. No. They are just Turks who happen to speak fluent german and have their company moved to the USA
Greek civilize Roman? HA Mate Romans actually are said to Be the Troyans. who Under command of Aeneas Left the Troy after its destruction. Rome didn't need to be civilized by anyone. But your very comment is full of hate towards Rome and Greek arrogance.
G3orgianSoldier What you are describing is the Aeneid, an epic poem comissioned by the roman emperor August in order to golrify Rome. Its just a work of fiction dessigned as a fundational myth. The true romans may not have been civilized by the greek, but they were havily influenced by them and may have never progressed to be the rome empire if it wasnt because of greek influence. I love rome and the rome empire, and i wish there were more good games abaut them (unlike many new ones, such as rome 2), but i also like to recognize true history.
Mate Troy was Considered a fiction too. Until they discovered it. Troy's Legend might have a lot of lies within. But there always is bound to be truth in it too. Let me remind you that Historians weren't common thing back than and most of the history was remembered as sayings by people. It was already filled with lies Author simply added some more details to make Poem Beautiful. You have all rights to judge Historical accuracy but you can't just say it's BS. And About "TRUE" history Mate if you remove all lies from history than there might be nothing left of it. SO try not to use term TRUE history again. You are just going to be laughed at.Rome might have been influenced by Greeks at the start, but they quickly made Civilization and army A LOT different from Greeks. We can't say that about thy Latin neighbour who later were conquered. And than same thing went for MIGHTY GREEKS Who under the Command of Alexander the Great conquered Asia 'till India. 90% of things Rome has ever done ended with word Vici
You said my point yourself. The whole story abaut Troy was already a common story when Homer wrote the Iliad, he just took the sayings and wrote them in paber. The Aeneid was directly created by Vigil, the whole thing is fake and is intended as a propaganda work, to glorify the emperors as direct descendants of the founders. Remember this whole poem was written years after the fall of the Republic, the emperor needed something to legitimize him. Moving forward, even if the poem was faker, true or watherver, there is no point in arguing if the greek influenced the romans, because at the end of the day (as you said it) the romans fairly surpassed the greek, except in terms of culture, but the greeks were already falling apart when the empire conquered them. Also, i think we dont have to antagonize the greeks and the romans, their legacy runs deep within western society and their values mark our roots. In another topic, if even roman gratness fell, how many time do we really have? Makes me wonder sometimes..
Wow. Thanks for putting the storyline all together in one movie. Had so much fun watching this. Oh and by the way, whoever was playing behind the Xbox, your hard work and efforts did not go unnoticed. ❤️
In the modern military perhaps your gear is designed to have a degree of bouyancy. If you were wearing a suit of iron like Marius, you would sink. Many soldiers in the normandy landing drowned after they fell into the water because they couldnt get thier gear off
I've seen a royal marine training video where guys jump in a swimming pool with a bunch of gear on and have to get it off. The guys jump in and sink right to the bottom of the pool
Skrotetor 40 pound armor at the most, and this man is a conditioned soldier. He could probably swim through fucking rapids in much heavier armor than that. Just take a look at modern marines, who, even with 120 lbs of gear can swim through rivers.
LostRequiem777 I hope you know that the training process was a lot different back during Roman times, bud. Roman soldiers were not taught how to tread water and how to swim with their gear on. Plus, swimming with our modern gear and wearing roman armor (lorica segmata, bracers, tunic, sword on belt) is a much different weight balance. Also, there are countless stories of soldiers falling into bodies of water and drowning due to the weight of their gear. Especially when there was no water training for said military. Please spare us the conditioned soldier crap. Conditioned soldiers are not gods. They can tire like any other man, they sink like any other man, and they die like any other man.
I remember playing this, despite all the bad reviews.. LEvel design was a bit clunky and weird, but ultimately, I loved the story, the cutscene, and gameplay had charm, I don't understand why people hated it.
@@Swiss_Cynic You can have subjective and objective reviews of the game, because people are often brainlets, they take someone elses subjective opinion as their own. Also, grüezi. ;)
Its been a long time since i last played this, but the line “never rush the world with your sword drawn, always come first with an open hand” has been my life philosophy and has worked well when applied, be happy to meet new people, one day they may hurt you. That day you draw your sword and do battle
...Wait. The gods _didn’t_ walk around resurrecting people and making metal float? And the Roman Empire collapsed? We don’t live there right now? ...Well shit.
This one video made me subscribe. Your videos are much more continuous than others, with a bit of gameplay added, which I haven't seen anywhere. Most of the others, just cut the gameplay, without showing the methods incorporated to progress, which takes away all the fun. Nice going man.
To anyone wondering this is an alternate history story so alot of the historical inaccuracies,also he can swim with armor on and to oter such things because of the gods helping him.Boudicca was suppose to have made allies with tribes althrough out europe to get to rome and tribes in africa sent war elephants to her.This is all explained in a cutscene how did so many miss that.
Not to mention during the Punic Wars, the Carthaginians armies which crossed the Alps brought war elephants with them. In the Second Punic War, Hasdrubal brought elephants from Hispania. Lots of them. I'd imagine they'd be sent an elephant or two since they would have been famous as hell if they managed to rape their way from Britannia to Rome.
the fighting style is more greek then Romemen. Rome's army used short swords and used them to stab the enemy. greeks used slightly longer swords and slashed and hacked.
Greeks never used swords. They used spears and relied mostly on a static formation, the phalanx. Roman tatics improved it. The ultimate proof is when Rome conquered Greece without any difficulty
Francisco Garay yes Greeks did use short swords, it was called a Xiphos and it was mass produced in Ancient Greece and given to a majority of soldiers. And Rome conquered Greece not because they didn't have any swords, it's because they were mass declining and Rome was a mega super power with better strategist
Greeks never used swords in major battles. Thats like a legionary using his puggio, they were to be used as last resource. You never drawings of greeks using swords in actual battle. This is a lie created by Frank Miller. And yes, Rome conquered Greece because their formations were better. The phalanx is an old tatic, that was used by 90% of civilized europe, including the early days of Rome. It had major flaws, it was static and relied mostly on the same enemy. Greeks would only use the Xiphos or the Kopis when their Sarissa or Dory broke
Im genuinely impressed, i clicked on the vid to have a quick look at the game and ended up watching the entire thing lol. The facial modelling on the yellowy goddess woman is very, very good, as are most of the graphics, although we are starting to enter uncanny valley and the occasional dodgy animation or movement really stands out as the rest is so bloody good. I like the way the rain trickles down the camera lens at points, the water and wave effects in the shipwreck scene, the way structures disintegrate and debris is thrown around, and the fire and lighting/particle effects. Theres a really nice focus pulling effect as well. Yes the story takes liberty's with history, but its set in an alternate timeline/history type thing so it doesnt matter. And fuck me those Scottish tribesmen were scary buggers, imagine being captured by mr cowhead and his minions /shudders.
shedboy4lyf Aye, very true. They probably would have if the empire hadn't crumbled though, they were persistent buggers. Im reminded of the story of a seige the romans undertook (masada maybe?) where the besieged commander boasted they had enough supplies in the fortress to sustain the battle for 10 years. "We shall take it in the 11th year then" was the romans response. And they bloody did.
About as historically accurate as shadow of rome. My only complaint. I think if they had boudica behave like the historical one that would have made the story a bit better. Still an amazing game. I give it a 10
pang1oss theres way more things wrong with it: elephants? an english king form the 600 which was the english cornerstone for catholicism? The Iceni are the "bad" ones here? medieval castles? roman cities were full of temples and had no casas or other housings? A scutum is at least 40% bigger than the ones they use. Romans very specificlly specialized on defensive and group tactics. thats some horrible history fuck ups and thats not even close to a fully realized "wrong facts" list
Nothuplay What you have to understand is that this game doesn't want to be historically accurate, but quite the opposite. In interviews the developers said how they were creating their own view of Rome, with a style of their own. So although I see no problem with wanting a game like this to be more historically accurate, I don't believe it's fair to call it a flaw.
Honestly When people told me this game was bad i put of getting it, i then picked it up on sale on steam a year later, played through it and had those that told me it was bad put in an asylum, this game was incredible, It may not have been the best gameplay wise but i think this is one of the finest cinematic masterpieces ever made, Would pre-order the legendary edition of a sequel in a heartbeat
diablohorer So was Age of Empire. It is detracting that they used real people in this way - it doesn't add anything to the story. Elephants? Why not used Hannibal? Why name his sons emperors? Just a silly choice. And there is no reason why a video game should be historically inaccurate.
Ian Jones I NEVER said video games SHOULD be historically inaccurate, please don't make up words I never said, I simply meant that he shouldn't be surprised that the historical facts are inaccurate, because in most video games, history is altered to create a more "dramatic" story, and to supply a happier ending. take the game we just watched, we all know that in reality, Rome was defeated by the barbaric tribes of Britannia and Germania. but in the game, Rome prevailed.
There is definitely a Ryse 2, I think it was called “Ryse Son of Rome: Afterlife” The reason why is because when Marius killed Boudicca, he told her something about “Another life”, at the end Marius dies. So what does this mean? Marius and Boudicca fight their way through the afterlife for revenge on the god that interferes with the mortals.
At the start I said to myself "There is no way I will watch all of it"... here I am at the end. Despite many bad reviews you can't deny this game has a really entertaining story line. Thanks for the video!!
same xD
Can't agree more.
Nerezza this game didn’t even have any negative reviews tho? it was one of the first games of the new gen consoles and it looks better than most of the games from this year so
Earwax and Eggs A lot of people missed the fact that this supposed to be a fictional story, and complain about realism.
Also, I can tell you that the enemies have the potential to get a little stale after a while, not least because there’s only one model for almost every type of enemy.
Don't forget the graphics was ahead of his time back when people were complaining about Watch Dogs 2 and GTA V graphics
Video game logic states that whenever you're fighting clones, the last clone will always be the real one. Always.
true
Ask anybody. They'll all agree.
I guess Starcraft 2 goes against logic. In one mission a unit make 2 clones of itself and you can kill the original first go if you're smart
if you stop time the real one keeps attacking since stop time does not work with bosses. i knew which one wqs real i just wanted to kill of the others.
I don't understand :o
I'm a history nerd and this game doesn't bother me one bit, I thought it was brilliant, job well done to the creators.
Nowadays everyone thinks they're nerds, even if they aren't. Not everyone qualifies.
***** because this is a game that was well put together
For me her rideing elephants was not the thing that fully put me off because the romans did send elephants to Britain to scare the fuck out of the brits who had never seen them before so she could have stolen a few i guess. But the thing that got to me was how she attacked rome maybe they should have made the city like roman london or something because she never got anywhere outside of Britain.
I agree
i concider it as more of a fantasy game
This has a really nice storyline. Heard gameplay isn't that great but compelling enough story and some good voice acting.
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@@k4four615 no one asked
@@flaviusbelisariusthebasedl3116, I don’t know who this ‘no one’ is, but I’m glad that they care enough for you to feel the need to tell me about it.
@@k4four615 quite kind this no one
@@flaviusbelisariusthebasedl3116 shut up sperg
50% of comments: "So inaccurate"
Other 50%: "Doesn't matter. Loved it"
+KlowN the 0.01%
TheSkipRow Gaming haha I knew I was special
50% PS4 owners
I mean no shit it’s not pretending to be accurate it literally has gods resurrecting people
Idk how people were expecting it to be accurate tbh the game obviously took a fictional spin on the Roman era but yknow how people on UA-cam are, they want to remind everyone that they are history experts lmao.
It's mad to think how this was the flagship title of the Xbox One and now, almost 9 years and a whole generation later, this game still looks great. What a brilliant story as well. 10/10
The game is still garbage that only retards like
I sure hope you were saying the game is a 10/10 in terms of looks
@@YesNo-yl6wsi second that notion, the game is brilliant in story-telling and art design but the gameplay itself is awful. could be worse still - i find it somewhat fun when you are really _in_ _it_
Commander Vitallion is a great character in this game
in some cutscenes its hard to identify if its a computer graphic , or a real human acting. man , technology is growing fast
Yeah, the CGI cutscenes are fantastic on this game.
Check out matrix demo!
7 years later and this game still holds up well, people said ryse was dissapointing as an example to what the xbox one could do but i dont really see it.
Better than some hollywood movie
Commander Vitallion is a goddamn badass.
He reminds me of Julius Caesar, his being a good general, his disdain for the senate and his "give Rome to the people" mentality support this.
who dies to a feminist write in lmao
Optim feminist write in? Boudicca is an actual historical figure who led a revolt against the Roman Empire in ancient Britain, pick up a history book before commenting on something you have no clue about.
@@nightfall3332 and? This game is based off an alternative timeline of Rome, it doesnt matter if she was a historical figure or not. It has nothing to do with the Boudica in the game. No one has assaulted Rome ever, but somehow she did effortlessly. And even though she was beaten multiple times previously, they forgave and refused to kill her every single time just because she was a woman. She's clearly based off Hannibal and is almost a Mary Sue character. Fucking awful writing.
@@Optim121 Not true, throughout Romes ENTIRE history in the west barbarian raiders routinely attacked Rome.
Am I the only one who love this alternative rome design?
nope
If Rome total war 2 was like this I would play it.
+Adblock why? rome 2 is an amazing game.
The graphics in Rome 2, if implemented with these graphics, would be amazing. Or so I think is what he means.
@@jaesunryoo There's workshop mods that add graphical improvement and mods that add plenty more.
People who hate on this game obviously haven't played it. 100% Achievements + Rank 231 and *proud*.
Absolutely
Next you'll tell me that God of War or 300 wasn't historically accurate. It's a video game, liberties are always taken.
Art Reese The fantastic parts are what makes it interesting, when it's all facts it becomes just another dry history course. I love the liberties, I also play Fantasy and this is as down to earth as possible.
Because it's elitist with a preoccupation on kings and queens. Nothing more boring then hearing about the same rulers we heard in high school.
+Art Reese 300, as it was depicted in the movie + the sequel, is nothing short of a graphic novel based on an older film, based on on ancient greek propaganda, based on a true story.
+Engadieffs While I like historical fiction, I prefer fantasy more so, since you get those people saying it's not accurate. With fantasy no one can say that since it's fantasy. Earth is too limiting, history is limiting, so is science fiction, since again, you get those science dweebs who say that theoretically so and so is not possible, so fantasy it is. Everyone else can keep their science and history and plausibility and shove it up their.........
Art Reese yeah, I'm sure that they don't understand that they won't like it either if it was precisely accurate.
Romas who speak with brit accent killing brits haha
@KamusiWolfie He wasn't nitpicking he just thought it was funny, please don't make assumptions then get angry at them for it.
@KamusiWolfie You say that as if them speaking Latin would have been bad.
I mean do you know how expensive it would be to actually get actors that are competent in speaking Latin lol.
There's no such thing as a brit accent 🤡
This is even better then most action movies! And this was 3 years ago!
Nelson Pham so true
indeed bro
Same
B Live
Dang I feel old
If you look at it as history inspired fiction( which it is.) this is actually one really good story.
Apart from Emperor Nero being an old man.
The real Nero died in his 30's
I miss the day when you had history inspired fiction. All because history buffs.
*"Welcome to the fourteenth, lad."*
Watching this kinda made me want to play rome 2 total war
same :P
+Vilhelm Mursal fr tho, now i want to play as the romans
Rome Total war 1 is better :D
Der Klappspaten it's been nearly a year, can no one ever again comment on this thread? I feel pain when I read replies to year ol comments.
hi
This game is absolutely beautiful.
45:46
Vitallion and Marius are like "Really, THAT"S are leader!"
Rome is civilization！
Rome is order！
Rome is power！
And out here-
WE！
ARE！
ROME！
Gen. Eric
Rome is 000000
Feel the pride
This game seems much more fun to watch than it is to play. xD
games like this are breeh
Better than most movies that are being released today.
As a history nerd, i facepalm a lot.
But as a general nerd.... i love this! The gothic architecture, the stylized designs, the badass characters and hateable villains.
The story is awesome and the visuals great, and the cutscenes are cool.
Sure i cringed a bit when the colluseum was some sort of super engineering masterpiece that's impossible to build, but who cares! There was loads of awesome stuff so that sure made up for it.
Sure, the armours were not historically accurate, but when he put on the mask, oh yes, shit was going down!
Who cares, the style was right on and they were romans. Not historical romans sure, but they were powermetal romans.
And i do like powermetal romans, they are awesome.
A shoutout to Vitallius, a badass dude. Probably my fav character.
ml.8
+Klomster history nerd?.. well, gothic architecture in the roman times? do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Tiago Andrade I know that there is not much in this that is historically correct.
Basically everything has anachronisms. But do i care? No, because i think it is awesome, despite me being a history nerd.
That's how i meant it.
Yeah, good point ;) that comment was just me having a bad day, time to bring some peace to the youtube comments! merry christmas man
Tiago Andrade Merry christman man, and any other holidays :P
And don't worry, i tend to make comments with dual ways of interpretation.
Be well!
I lost all respect for Boudica when she killed Vitallion.
Same.
Marius definitely should have smashed before Commodus killed her dad
thanks for the spoiler alert
He was an enemy to her, pure and simple
I never had any to begin with
This game came out in 2013 and still looks and plays better than most modern games.
Quarantine feels!
I love Ancient Rome so much that they gave me a perfect game of blood, but I feel bad for Marius coz he died 😢 Well done, dear creators
He died but atleast he is in Esylum, saved rome, and finally reunites with his family
This last cutscene sealed the deal for the most amazing campaign I've ever played. I was almost in tears when Maurius was delivered that final death blow. When I saw his statue in the center of Rome and the music was playing chills ran down my spine. I don't know what the critics say but that was the best singleplayer I've ever experienced. I beat it on legendary and got all the collectibles. It's a feeling of accomplishment. The unique ways Maruius kills the enemy Praetorians is so epic it cannot be explained with words. The campaign had a lot of influence from 3 movie's Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, and the Eagle. When Marius is blasted off the ship in trial by fire its similar to the D day scene. The achievement for beating the level is saving private Marius. Secondly when Marius marches north into Scotland it resembles the movie Eagle as they are going to find a lost legion. Gladiator because Marius ends up challenging co emperor Commudus in the collloseum. In the movie Russell crow fights Emperor who's names commudus. Similarly both our gladiator/Generals are poisoned but still win. Overall excellent game and graphics are the best I've ever seen.
Maximus was actually stabbed in the side by commodus since he knew Maximus would kick his ass. Unlike in Ryse where Marius gets out of the arena with his life.
Damn... why did Vitallion have to die? :(
Delta40 fuck I guess it’s my fault but I wasn’t done with the video so I was reading comments and that just spoiled it.
Because that bitch Boudicca was allowed to reach Rome.
I would love see them do Ancient Egyptian game like this of War Pharaoh Tuthmose III he had like Thutmose III made 16 raids in 20 years. He was an active expansionist ruler, sometimes called Egypt's greatest conqueror or "the Napoleon of Egypt." He is recorded to have captured 350 cities during his rule and conquered much of the Near East from the Euphrates to Nubia during seventeen known military campaigns
there is AC origins
Yuwan ; AC origins only covers Cleopatra VIII tho
That was one incredible story.
R.I.P. Commander Vitallion, you were the best ;(
Really? Did u really have to spoil? I wanted to check some random custcenes, not all. U are bitch...
spoiler alert
VarDen Clips the video clearly says "ALL CUT SCENES" your the female dog for not being able to read.
VarDen Clips Then you're the bitch for reading the comment section, idiot.
samturrett is that not what a comment section is for dumb ass to be read and answered. not only can you not read but your incompetent as well. just another youtuber looking to give someone a hard time for nothing.
Ryse 2: Son of Byzantium
Meme War Veteran Well he sucked Trying to show off with his shiny shield
Ryse 2: Son of Sparta
This is good. I like this.
Ryse 2: Son of HRE
@Jack the Gestapo
It won't change facts
You either choose byzantine or the crusade
"Rome will endure until the last days of men"
Yeah, surrreeee.
it's still here and the seat of one of the largest organizations, the Catholic Church, in the world, isn't it? Not an Empire, but still powerful.
Well, when they say Rome. I was thinking about the Empire itself eh? But I see what you're getting at.
***** Catholic Church is a product of Byzantine Empire.
Nic Clone Pretty sure there was just one Christianity until the 10th century, right?
Nic Clone Which grew from Roman lineage, so...
Damn, I can't believe I watched the whole thing. I was hooked from beginning to end. I thought I would only watch a couple of minutes of it then found myself intrigued by the story, animation and graphics. Sort of reminded me of Gladiator with a Game of Thrones twist. The way actors were rendered along with every thing else looked amazing. Loved every minute of it. Too bad it got negative reviews in the game play department. That is the only thing keeping me from buying this since I've already seen the best parts. Hopefully they make a sequel that improves on it's shortcomings.
Прям как мысли прочитал=)
That is exactly what happened to me.
Dallas Walker I agree
the gameplay wasn't that bad, as long we didn't play the game too often. too bad you missed 8 years to get the game.
Vitallion was seriously the man...
Democles: is about to kill Commodus
Commodus: I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye
"I am Damocles. I am vengeance. You! Are! Next!"
Best lines in the entire game
24:35 York was called Eburacum at this time
Also "King Oswald" is inaccurate it is an Anglo-Saxon Germanic name Britain was Celtic speaking in this period. Bouddicas wifes husband was king Prasutagus.
***** it means to get fun while playin and gets educated at the same time.
+Talen The Krogan Yes, that's the point.
*****
Nowadays video games..
Unlike yesterday games :D
Atari? Nintendo ? Or sega? Remember all of them hahaha...
My god, the textures are incredible, the reflections are incredible, the movement of the light is amazing, the lip synching is amazing. It looks so damn freaking real.
I never played the game but the story looks fucking awesome.
Fuck, a decade later and this game still looks better than most games coming out now, even AAA.
I can't wait until we get the games that are GOOD with this amount of attention to detail!
This one did not age so well. Also holy shit 8 years ago???
This guy's dad died the same day he met his dad after being a soldier. Respect. 👊🏻
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
15 December 37 - 9 June 68 AD) was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius and became Claudius' heir and successor. Like Claudius, Nero became emperor with the consent of the Praetorian Guard. Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, was likely implicated in Claudius' death and Nero's nomination as emperor. She dominated Nero's early life and decisions until he cast her off. Five years into his reign, he had her murdered.
The PC version of this game has been confirmed. It's coming out on October 10th. Like if you want to see an updated game movie with PC ULTRA graphics!
wohooo that is epic good news!!!
And maybe a way to remove the user interface stuff to make it more cinematic! :D
AFguy99 I agree!!
"PC Ultra graphics" Watch this shit look almost exactly the same despite the settings.
supermysticsonic2 I smell peasant...
Pretty fucking epic, thank you for uploading this.
When I was watching this. For several times I forgot that this is a game, and thought I was watching a movie.
For a roman soldier to move about with that much mobility, speed and strength he must have:
A) Incredible amounts of strength, endurance and with lots of padding to cushion the himself from his own armor moving so violently.
B) His armor is leather
If that's not bad enough, picture this.
1) 10:15 Sword of Damocles actually comes from the ruler Dionysius who was being annoyed by Damocles because of his power and wealth. Dionysius switched positions with Damocles to teach him a lesson by holding a sword with a single piece of thread above the throne to show him that even with much wealth and power, you face incredible amounts of danger. The sword of Damocles is frequently used in allusion to this tale, epitomizing the imminent and ever-present peril of people in power.
2) 19:02 That is a FORTUNE in iron just from the chains, not only that, but those towers would most likely be unable to even hold something so massively heavy off the ground without huge counterweights AND not to mention the ships rowing into them. A smarter investment would be to use the iron to suit up all the barbarians with better armor and perhaps more siege equipment.
3)27:10 "Hey, there are archers blocking our path, instead of forming a roman testudo formation, which pretty much negates light missile attacks, go in alone, fight the band of barbarians yourself (which will alert them of your presence anyway) and clear a path for your entire battalion!
4)31:07 Ummm...formation anyone?
5)38:50 Yes stop your men in the middle of a rickety ass bridge while you look in a forest which is clearly a very sketchy situation.
6)40:13 You would most likely suffer severe injuries leading to your death.
7)55:00 The "Go, no you go" scene
8)1:30:40 Now where the FUCK did she find an elephant?
9)1:41:00 Yea there is NO way you would even survive a stab like that.
10)1:41:19 Its the "My shield is nothing but a counterweight" technique! How effective!
About #8, during the Punic Wars, the Carthaginians armies which crossed the Alps brought war elephants with them. In the Second Punic War, Hasdrubal brought elephants from Hispania. Lots of them.
would have been more epic if they had spoken in classical latin lol
True
Tbf, if they'd released that as like an alternative language pack with subtitles, I would play the game all over again
Marius reminds me SO MUCH of Maximus from Gladiator.
I. AM. DAMOCLES!
I. AM. VENGEANCE!
YOU. ARE. NEXT!!!
I have watched this twice, once about a year and a half ago and again just now. This cutscene movie is by far one of my favorites. One of the best plots with the best twists I've seen in a game. Heard the gameplay itself was a bit repetitive, but this right here is gold.
scenario is so powerfull and graphics are awesome, better than real movies of its kind
Now I understand the quote: "rise up, son of rome"
Why do the Roman soldiers have to suck so badly in this game? They are all shown dying in almost every cut scene when you are fighting for Rome. However, as soon as you try to kill Nero, they turn into actual soldiers and are harder to defeat.
Well those soldiers are praetorians, and most of the cutscenes involve ambushes so yeah the roman soldiers really do suck.
David Watt No Idea... I bet Romans back then were stronger and didn't die... as much.
David Watt The Roman soldiers defending Emperor Nero are the elite. They're the best of the best. The ones fighting barbarians are still glorious fighters but not on the same level.
This was such a good story. I think the central theme is one we can all relate to; as most of us feel, on some level, that we are mere playthings in the grand scheme of the universe(and whatever Gods may exist). Despite this unfairness, Marius does his duty as a Legionnaire...and as a believer in Rome's ideal.
One of the first games released for the Xbox One, and it's turning seven in 2020.
Favorite cutscene by far 20:04 - 20:25. That's good acting and leadership of his legionnaires
Holy crap! Sometimes it looks just like a movie!
with me the same and its beautifull to , isn't?
julien de vriese graphics has gone so far! Story, on the other hand... Less much so.
Feem Her The story was pretty good I thought
***** I guess I'm just stupid
I don't think they intended for it to be. I didn't say the story was spectacular I just didn't think it was bad, but the masturbation inducing graphics may have me hypnotized. Though I was disappointed they didn't put Nero in drag I think that would have completed it lol
Nero was one of the worst emperors in the history of the empire.
You mean the Best? he wasn't boring.
Only fools who have never known the horrors of war, would bemoan about the "boredom" of peace...
Mrmedia046
War it's in our nature. Denying that makes you look like, you know, a fool.
+HideCircuit Then start a life in Pakistan or Iraq!
Jonathan Vanlalchhana
No, why would I do that?
If this game was placed in feudal japan would it be called "Rice, son of Tokyo?"
Edo not Tokyo, I think, my Japanese history is a little rusty.
Surely is better then mine. But how was my joke on "Rice" instead of "Ryse"!?
I did not see that XD
And wouldn't it be Ryce?
Yeeeeah but Rice is more effective imo!
Well it is Crytek so any "I", must be replaced with a Y. :-P
This game would have been much, much more badass if the voice acting was in Latin.
Latin with english subtitle. What do you think??? Would have loved that really.
Xecutionner2K That would be awesome enough. Imagine Latin phrases becoming internet memes! LOL (and I don't mean this sarcastically, as much as it sounds, it would be really awesome)
And for the extra touch, classical latin. The one with the pronounciation even modern latin scholars find weird.
ex. Julius Caesar was "Yoolius Kaisar"
Cicero was "Kikero"
Latin is a dead language, not many people find it interesting anymore
Biggus Dikus
I keep returning to this page every year.
Wow, Ryse still looks better then the Order 1886?
u blind or naw?
RichHomie Baloney Well this game runs on a lower resolution on the Xbox One than The Order 1886 on Playstation 4, but Playstation 4 always has washed out colour and the PC version of Ryse has the best graphics out of all three.
RichHomie Baloney
1080p should be done rendering soon guys. Deadrising is next!
it looks amazing even in 360p
AcherRollz What resolution does this game run at? Are these cutscenes real-time, like the intro? I was slagging off the "EXT-GEN" consoles, Im a PC gamer, but this is AMAZING, if this is real...?
In the opener, there was physics, real time animation, cloth models, volumetric lighting, soft shadows, reflective texturig? WTF.
There is NOTHING, that looks this good, or has this level of detail on PC, so we definately are not ahead of the consoles.
bloozism It does run natively at that resolution, but just like Xbox 360 and PS3 it is upscaled to 1080 by the console
Scott Irvine it runs natively at 1600x900 but is upscaled to 1080p. If you had a 4k monitor or tv, it would be upscaled to that as well, although I imagine there would be a lot of quality degradation.
Scott Irvine
We have stuff that looks this good,ever looked at crysis 1? modded? 2007 game lmao. or any of the Crysis games for that matter, The witcher 3, Metro Last Light. If you have a very powerful PC that is.
No offensive to console players, but the next-gen consoles are weak compared to PC's and we have graphics better than this. Ryse looks awesome,And the new consoles are great.
But to say the consoles are ahead of PC or on par with PC , thats just complete nonsense. A single 300 euro videocard has more rendering power than the entire PS4. Just to give you a impression of where PC is in terms of technology.
I didnt know the scottish wore wildebeast helmets and spoke orc
They also rode elephants into battle... and Galba, the next emperor of Rome, had a long and peaceful reign.
MilleniumHare Yes we did ride war elephants into battle!
The voice acting and story are on point.
this game is the perfection...
this is such an ethnic game.
The only Roman I see in this is the inspiration for the armour. The rest is american. Even the gestures and mouth movement.
I heard they were originally going to call it "Ryse: Son of 'Murica", but it just didn't have the same ring to it as "Son of Rome".
The accents in the game are British, not American. Holy shit you're an idiot. This game was made by crytek. It's not an American company. How can you not tell what accents are used?
*****
Crytek. A company originally from Germany. Founded by Turks who moved their headquarters to USA. Truly a barbarian game
Mert Ece
According to the ancient Romans. Yes they were.lol But in all seriousness. No. They are just Turks who happen to speak fluent german and have their company moved to the USA
1:34:30 When I played, I genuinely thought Marius might kill him. That goes to show the quality of acting
This game doesn't get enough credit not many games have story telling as good as this
WE WANT MORE GAMES ABOUT ROME!
Not all of us are bent over backwards about Rome. I'd rather see games about the Greeks, who civilized the Romans.
Greek civilize Roman? HA Mate Romans actually are said to Be the Troyans. who Under command of Aeneas Left the Troy after its destruction. Rome didn't need to be civilized by anyone. But your very comment is full of hate towards Rome and Greek arrogance.
G3orgianSoldier What you are describing is the Aeneid, an epic poem comissioned by the roman emperor August in order to golrify Rome. Its just a work of fiction dessigned as a fundational myth.
The true romans may not have been civilized by the greek, but they were havily influenced by them and may have never progressed to be the rome empire if it wasnt because of greek influence.
I love rome and the rome empire, and i wish there were more good games abaut them (unlike many new ones, such as rome 2), but i also like to recognize true history.
Mate Troy was Considered a fiction too. Until they discovered it. Troy's Legend might have a lot of lies within. But there always is bound to be truth in it too. Let me remind you that Historians weren't common thing back than and most of the history was remembered as sayings by people. It was already filled with lies Author simply added some more details to make Poem Beautiful. You have all rights to judge Historical accuracy but you can't just say it's BS. And About "TRUE" history Mate if you remove all lies from history than there might be nothing left of it. SO try not to use term TRUE history again. You are just going to be laughed at.Rome might have been influenced by Greeks at the start, but they quickly made Civilization and army A LOT different from Greeks. We can't say that about thy Latin neighbour who later were conquered. And than same thing went for MIGHTY GREEKS Who under the Command of Alexander the Great conquered Asia 'till India. 90% of things Rome has ever done ended with word Vici
You said my point yourself. The whole story abaut Troy was already a common story when Homer wrote the Iliad, he just took the sayings and wrote them in paber. The Aeneid was directly created by Vigil, the whole thing is fake and is intended as a propaganda work, to glorify the emperors as direct descendants of the founders. Remember this whole poem was written years after the fall of the Republic, the emperor needed something to legitimize him.
Moving forward, even if the poem was faker, true or watherver, there is no point in arguing if the greek influenced the romans, because at the end of the day (as you said it) the romans fairly surpassed the greek, except in terms of culture, but the greeks were already falling apart when the empire conquered them.
Also, i think we dont have to antagonize the greeks and the romans, their legacy runs deep within western society and their values mark our roots.
In another topic, if even roman gratness fell, how many time do we really have?
Makes me wonder sometimes..
I love how the mission says "avenge your family" even though you are actually totally destroying nero and the antigods
Wow. Thanks for putting the storyline all together in one movie. Had so much fun watching this. Oh and by the way, whoever was playing behind the Xbox, your hard work and efforts did not go unnoticed. ❤️
I find it hilarious how he can swim with all that armour on. He would sink right to the bottom
In the modern military perhaps your gear is designed to have a degree of bouyancy. If you were wearing a suit of iron like Marius, you would sink. Many soldiers in the normandy landing drowned after they fell into the water because they couldnt get thier gear off
I've seen a royal marine training video where guys jump in a swimming pool with a bunch of gear on and have to get it off. The guys jump in and sink right to the bottom of the pool
*****
you seem so sure despite you are wrong
well you saw someone with full armor, helmet, sword and shin protectors to swim in deep waters without go to bottom after 2min....hmmm
You ever see them go swimming in it?
16:17 So a man with 60lbs of metal on his shoulder can easily swim in THAT water. Da FAQ crucify the screenwriters.
ahahahahha
+Douglas Johannsen are you applying nowadays capabilities and technology to the past? Clearly you think real life is a Hollywood movie
A lorica segmentata would top off around 33 lbs (16 kilos)
Skrotetor 40 pound armor at the most, and this man is a conditioned soldier.
He could probably swim through fucking rapids in much heavier armor than that.
Just take a look at modern marines, who, even with 120 lbs of gear can swim through rivers.
LostRequiem777 I hope you know that the training process was a lot different back during Roman times, bud. Roman soldiers were not taught how to tread water and how to swim with their gear on. Plus, swimming with our modern gear and wearing roman armor (lorica segmata, bracers, tunic, sword on belt) is a much different weight balance. Also, there are countless stories of soldiers falling into bodies of water and drowning due to the weight of their gear. Especially when there was no water training for said military. Please spare us the conditioned soldier crap. Conditioned soldiers are not gods. They can tire like any other man, they sink like any other man, and they die like any other man.
Must say you did a great job, cutting the gameplay at the exact right moments, keep up the good work!
I remember playing this, despite all the bad reviews.. LEvel design was a bit clunky and weird, but ultimately, I loved the story, the cutscene, and gameplay had charm, I don't understand why people hated it.
I mean if you wanna know the reasons you should read the reviews.
@@Swiss_Cynic You can have subjective and objective reviews of the game, because people are often brainlets, they take someone elses subjective opinion as their own. Also, grüezi. ;)
@@seba11321 Sali :)
Well, i think all opinion is subjective. Its hard to claim objectivity in personal taste.
That ending is one of the most badass endings to a Videogame ever, just the pan out of his Monument with amazing Music, gotta love it.
Its been a long time since i last played this, but the line “never rush the world with your sword drawn, always come first with an open hand” has been my life philosophy and has worked well when applied, be happy to meet new people, one day they may hurt you. That day you draw your sword and do battle
1:08:57 that's. how the statue cried blood at the beginning he switched the heads
This game makes any historian puke. But it's a good game none the less
+theBatBurger They stated that this was not a historical game
+Kourosh .
theBatBurger lol can say the same with wolfenstein
I know a bunch of historians who love these games tho🤔
...Wait. The gods _didn’t_ walk around resurrecting people and making metal float? And the Roman Empire collapsed? We don’t live there right now?
...Well shit.
This one video made me subscribe. Your videos are much more continuous than others, with a bit of gameplay added, which I haven't seen anywhere. Most of the others, just cut the gameplay, without showing the methods incorporated to progress, which takes away all the fun. Nice going man.
To anyone wondering this is an alternate history story so alot of the historical inaccuracies,also he can swim with armor on and to oter such things because of the gods helping him.Boudicca was suppose to have made allies with tribes althrough out europe to get to rome and tribes in africa sent war elephants to her.This is all explained in a cutscene how did so many miss that.
Not to mention during the Punic Wars, the Carthaginians armies which crossed the Alps brought war elephants with them. In the Second Punic War, Hasdrubal brought elephants from Hispania. Lots of them. I'd imagine they'd be sent an elephant or two since they would have been famous as hell if they managed to rape their way from Britannia to Rome.
the fighting style is more greek then Romemen. Rome's army used short swords and used them to stab the enemy. greeks used slightly longer swords and slashed and hacked.
The CrazyOmagaKing except for the Spartan short sword. It was shortened to 40 cm
The Spatha was developed later in the empire's history and used mostly by cavalry.
Greeks never used swords. They used spears and relied mostly on a static formation, the phalanx.
Roman tatics improved it.
The ultimate proof is when Rome conquered Greece without any difficulty
Francisco Garay yes Greeks did use short swords, it was called a Xiphos and it was mass produced in Ancient Greece and given to a majority of soldiers. And Rome conquered Greece not because they didn't have any swords, it's because they were mass declining and Rome was a mega super power with better strategist
Greeks never used swords in major battles. Thats like a legionary using his puggio, they were to be used as last resource. You never drawings of greeks using swords in actual battle. This is a lie created by Frank Miller. And yes, Rome conquered Greece because their formations were better. The phalanx is an old tatic, that was used by 90% of civilized europe, including the early days of Rome. It had major flaws, it was static and relied mostly on the same enemy. Greeks would only use the Xiphos or the Kopis when their Sarissa or Dory broke
I still love this game. We need more games like this.
Im genuinely impressed, i clicked on the vid to have a quick look at the game and ended up watching the entire thing lol. The facial modelling on the yellowy goddess woman is very, very good, as are most of the graphics, although we are starting to enter uncanny valley and the occasional dodgy animation or movement really stands out as the rest is so bloody good. I like the way the rain trickles down the camera lens at points, the water and wave effects in the shipwreck scene, the way structures disintegrate and debris is thrown around, and the fire and lighting/particle effects. Theres a really nice focus pulling effect as well. Yes the story takes liberty's with history, but its set in an alternate timeline/history type thing so it doesnt matter. And fuck me those Scottish tribesmen were scary buggers, imagine being captured by mr cowhead and his minions /shudders.
say what you want about us but the romans couldn't conquer us :D
shedboy4lyf Aye, very true. They probably would have if the empire hadn't crumbled though, they were persistent buggers.
Im reminded of the story of a seige the romans undertook (masada maybe?) where the besieged commander boasted they had enough supplies in the fortress to sustain the battle for 10 years. "We shall take it in the 11th year then" was the romans response. And they bloody did.
meetoo594 Rome defeated itself, no power in the world could fully destroy it.
The boob shake effect was poorly done. lol
About as historically accurate as shadow of rome. My only complaint.
I think if they had boudica behave like the historical one that would have made the story a bit better.
Still an amazing game. I give it a 10
You do realize that her daughters were raped in front of her by a line of soldiers.. ESRB would love that!
pang1oss theres way more things wrong with it:
elephants? an english king form the 600 which was the english cornerstone for catholicism? The Iceni are the "bad" ones here? medieval castles? roman cities were full of temples and had no casas or other housings? A scutum is at least 40% bigger than the ones they use. Romans very specificlly specialized on defensive and group tactics. thats some horrible history fuck ups and thats not even close to a fully realized "wrong facts" list
why I said about as Historically accurate as shadow of rome.
I noticed all of what you said. Didn't feel like typing it though.
Nothuplay What you have to understand is that this game doesn't want to be historically accurate, but quite the opposite. In interviews the developers said how they were creating their own view of Rome, with a style of their own.
So although I see no problem with wanting a game like this to be more historically accurate, I don't believe it's fair to call it a flaw.
I agree. That's why I gave it a 10.
Thank you for doing this, loved the movie. I am huge fan of this era, and I loved it. Even with the historical inaccuracies, I loved it.
Man, the graphics are incredible!
Funny thing about vitallion. If he was greek. His name would be General General!
Awesome cinematics! Thank you for sharing this. Much better than most real life crappy movies.
I like this as a movie more so than a game, i just pretend its one of those really good CGI straight to dvd movie releases and instant classic for me.
Gladiator the videogame.
Honestly When people told me this game was bad i put of getting it, i then picked it up on sale on steam a year later, played through it and had those that told me it was bad put in an asylum, this game was incredible, It may not have been the best gameplay wise but i think this is one of the finest cinematic masterpieces ever made, Would pre-order the legendary edition of a sequel in a heartbeat
after watching 300, this is a good game to play inspired
the historical inaccuracy here is atrocious
well yeah, no shit, it's a video game
It's hack&slash game, not History Channel.
diablohorer
So was Age of Empire. It is detracting that they used real people in this way - it doesn't add anything to the story. Elephants? Why not used Hannibal? Why name his sons emperors? Just a silly choice. And there is no reason why a video game should be historically inaccurate.
Ian Jones Batman's historically inaccurate, and he has video games
Ian Jones I NEVER said video games SHOULD be historically inaccurate, please don't make up words I never said, I simply meant that he shouldn't be surprised that the historical facts are inaccurate, because in most video games, history is altered to create a more "dramatic" story, and to supply a happier ending. take the game we just watched, we all know that in reality, Rome was defeated by the barbaric tribes of Britannia and Germania. but in the game, Rome prevailed.
There is definitely a Ryse 2, I think it was called “Ryse Son of Rome: Afterlife”
The reason why is because when Marius killed Boudicca, he told her something about “Another life”, at the end Marius dies.
So what does this mean? Marius and Boudicca fight their way through the afterlife for revenge on the god that interferes with the mortals.
1:49:52 "he must die by his own hand." *gets impaled by a statue of him holding a giant knife* oh I get it!
This aged beautifully
It's insane how the graphics still hold up really well