History teachers normally: "Okay kids, do page 12 part A until F" History teachers at 2 AM:

The king is Alfred the great the king of Wessex who was basically famous for his record keeping and fighting Vikings

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.

Altair´s time is during the thrid crusade, that means the new is before that

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

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.

Pretty sure the first time they had navel combat was in AC3.

Regardless of what I think of their games, Ubisoft and Blizzard make some of the best trailers in the business...

Ubisoft hired a historian for this game... Let’s take a moment to think about that...

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 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

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.

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Let's Play?

6:52 English longswordsmen? Longsword first appeared in XIII century, while events depicted take place during the IX-X century (known as viking age).

Odin was THE god, god of gods and all humans. Caring, honor and curiosity above all.

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)

History teacher: We don’t want to have another anakin skywalker Me: So he a prequel fan?

“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 narrator is King Alfred the Great of Wessex

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

Odin is often associated with ravens and they consider it a blessing from him if a raven is nearby.

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

He keeps pausing it and asking a question that is answered straight after

KZfaq 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.

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

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.

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.

This trailer is almost pure fantasy.

Cities I imagine we could to see would be London, Dublin, Cork, Paris, Kiev, Hedeby, Upsalla, and more. The Norse roamed far and wide.

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.

People: It's like they forgot the "Assassin" in Assassin's Creed Ubisoft: BUT BUT there's the hidden blade so.

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.

Lol, this game is 95% fantasy, 3% myth and 2% historical. Is that a kite shield in the 9th century England 🤣.

History teacher: These games are a great opportunity for historical education Also history teacher: eNgLisH LonGsWordSmen The absolute state of public education.

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

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.

Video: [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] Deaf people: HYPE!

I still can not get over the subtitles "[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING}" Too funny!!

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.

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"

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

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.

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 😅

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

I'm already excited for this. And that hidden blade came out of nowhere.

Once you see the protagonists blade rushing into the buff guy's eye in like 5 frames , you cannot unsee it

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

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

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

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.

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

I was able to correctly guess on my first viewing of the trailer that the narrator was king alfred

6:09 is that Clive Standen with motion capture ?

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!

That man around 8 minutes into the video is Odin, portrayed as the wanderer with his crows hugin and munin

Who is that? My first thought: odin. Then i heard the ravens, second thought: it has to be odin

Fire arrows. Are they impossible in every way historically? Yes. Are they cool? _Also yes_

heck yeah! I was waiting for your video on this, I heard another historian say it’s about as accurate as he-man by the looks of it

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

Captions : intense music playing Deaf people : intense dancing

"Skyrim?" No, close though. Norway!

When Origins came out, I was in my second year of art history. I found the Beehive tomb and had a nerd freak out lol.

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.

That's apparently Alfred, so... protagonist is pretty screwed

THAT hooded dude was Odin. Chief god of the Norse pantheon

Mr terry i see you have a ghost in the background what class do you main on destiny?

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.

Mr. Terry you should play Darkest of Days!

The dev commentary confirmed that the narrator was King Alfred

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.

In the assasins creed universe the Greek gods were the result of human experiments from the one who came before.

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

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.

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 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)

There's a lot of history experts in this comment section wtf

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 KZfaq channel did a breakdown of the trailer with both the game director and narrative director.

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

Jesus they just pumping them out again

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."

Valhalla is not only for the Vikings ,,elite" it is for every warrior who died in combat

Mr.Terry have you played Assassins Creed Rogue?

American history teachers don’t know that much about history do they

In regards to armor and warfare, this is a mess. NOTHING is right.

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 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)

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.

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.

The Völva( the woman) In the start did not have that horned headgear or african neckrings

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.

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 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.

"its a good life we live brother" "let it never change" "and let it never change us"

Is this gonna be available only on the x box series x or will it be available on the ps5

is that statue at the beginning the Norse god of war Tyr?Because he is missing his hand

Really like your content and your commentary! I have a suggestion for future reaction videos : Maybe in the first part let the video play without pausing and after the video ends, start a commentary on different frames and key points. Keep up the good work teach ! :D

You know, for a history teacher, this guy never comments on the historical inaccuracies

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.