00:00Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
00:03My name's Graham Boyd, Xbox Live's AC Bongos,
00:06and I'm here at Crytek Studio in Frankfurt, Germany,
00:09to see Rise, Son of Rome,
00:10and specifically a new level called Oswald.
00:13I've just actually found out that in the full game
00:15it's going to be called The King.
00:17We're going to speak to the guys behind it,
00:19including Cervati Early, the studio head,
00:21so I cannot wait to see more.
00:23Our march north towards the rebel heartland was brutal.
00:27Progress was slowed by battle after bloody battle
00:31against these embittered tribes.
00:34Rome had brought peace, rich trade, and prosperity to these isles.
00:39This peace had been shattered by open rebellion.
00:44Now, finally, we were closing in on the very birthplace of this revolt,
00:50where King Oswald and his warrior daughter ruled.
00:53King Oswald is kind of like a far-reaching Norse of Rome's reach.
01:00It's kind of the boundaries of the Roman Empire,
01:03and the Romans tried to, like, as we know in the past,
01:06the Romans tried to expand the empire.
01:08While Marius is on a journey to take revenge for his family's murder.
01:13From a high level, Oswald takes place about roughly halfway through the game,
01:18and so it takes him kind of deep into the heart of the barbarian,
01:21like, enemy territory.
01:22They're moving their way on through Britannia, on their way to York.
01:26He's been kind of deemed the mission to go ahead and capture King Oswald.
01:32And what are my orders, sir?
01:35I promised you blood, didn't I?
01:38You will capture Oswald and Boudicca.
01:41Before you can get your men through safely,
01:43you will need to deal with the archers posted on the aqueduct.
01:52And so the basic idea is that, you know, Marius needs to kind of go in alone.
01:56It's one of the few times where you're kind of lone wolf in the game.
02:04You have to clear the aqueduct of all of the archers
02:08because they're the ones pinning your soldiers down.
02:11And that's the main defense.
02:13You'll encounter a lot of barbarian camps
02:15where you have to use your combat prowess to kind of get through.
02:17and then you bust out Trapila, your kind of Roman spear,
02:21and use it to take out some archers
02:22and kind of just cause mayhem, basically.
02:27You know, we kind of look at Oswald as a point in the story
02:30where our hero both has to grow up
02:32and then see the world the way it truly is
02:35is to know that maybe not everything's the way
02:37that he's always seen it or been brought up.
02:42Surrender!
02:45Or I'll end you a bloodline.
02:48Now! Enough!
02:50At the end of the level, we end up at York
02:52bringing the barbarian king and princess to Rome, essentially.
02:57Basilius, who is running Britannia for us.
03:00What kind of character is he?
03:02He's a Trap.
03:04He's a real kind of
03:07pampered silver spoon,
03:09kind of given everything
03:10and expects everything back kind of guy.
03:13So he's almost a counterpoint to Marius.
03:15Yeah, yeah. Polar opposites.
03:18She is beautiful.
03:22Flog her until he talks or she dies.
03:25The look and feel of the level.
03:26We're in Britannia for Oswald.
03:28The vegetation's incredible, the foliage moving.
03:30I think people will really see those as next-gen features.
03:34You know, we had a lot of discussions early on.
03:36It's like, well, where do we go?
03:38Do we go to, you know, to the Germanic tribes?
03:40It's like, no, no, let's kind of keep it someplace that we know,
03:43which, you know, thank goodness,
03:45a lot of the guys on the team, you know, are Brits.
03:46I'm from north of the Wall.
03:48I can't wait to see what you do up there.
03:49And be one of the horned guys north of the Wall.
03:51That's right.
