300 Remake Rendered in Skyrim

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300 Remake Rendered in Skyrim

THIS! IS! SKYRIM!

Being gamers on the internet, many of us receive quite a bit of exposure to <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97878-Machinima-Is-Giving-Gamers-a-New-Way-to-Play>machinima videos, films made using videogame animation clips as opposed to standard animation software. The technique is becoming more common every day as graphics continue to improve in proportion to <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118390-Valves-Source-Filmmaker-Goes-Public>the number of film making tools available to the general public. And that's why you're able to watch this impressively faithful rendition of battles from Zack Snyder's 300 through the lens of Bethesda's Skyrim, complete with action scenes slowing down suddenly, only to ramp up to very fast speeds.

While Skyrim's Creation engine can't quite capture the impact of thousands of Persians smashing against Spartan shields, this video actually does a good job of rendering several critical battles from the popular movie. After a brief introduction, the action begins with the first meeting between Leonidas's army and the Persians (complete with the Persian herald taking a spear to the chest). The video also depicts the Spartan's battle against the Immortals, and their final stand before falling to flurries of arrows. Sadly, the emotional impact of the final scene is drained somewhat when the video pans over their bodies and we hear these words: "Become a Spartan hero today. Suscribe to Tyrannicon."

Tyrannicon has developed dozens of machinima projects for YouTube and Machinima.com, many of which are parodies of popular games like Mass Effect 3 and Modern Warfare 3. He's also dabbled in some impressively epic videos like the 300 project and <a href=http://www.youtube.com/show/thegreatbattlesofskyrim?s=1>The Great Battles of Skyrim series, which uses Bethsesda's modding tools to depict fights between hundreds of soldiers in a variety of familiar Skyrim locations. The amount of work Tyrannicon puts into these videos is actually quite impressive, which you can see <a href=http://youtu.be/7gFR595sw_k>in this 300 Outtake video detailing what was needed to bring the video in its finished form.

Source: <a href=4ct1668FUKs>YouTube via <a href=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-02-muscle-film-300-recreated-superbly-in-skyrim>Eurogamer

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Love the C&C death sounds, got a laugh outta me.

All in all, very high quality, although it seems that the spears are just remodelled swords. I expected as much, woulda been cooler if Bethesda had spears in the game to begin with.
 

Imperioratorex Caprae

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I have to say that despite the engine's limitations, I felt a shiver of delight watching a favorite movie of mine re-imagined in game engine format. I commend the author, and say once again, Ebert is full of shit when he says games can't be art.
 

Tiamat666

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I think I saw a Fus Ro Dah in that video.
The Spartans are not playing fair.
 

RJ 17

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Spartan: They look thirsty....
Leonidas: Heh...then lets give them something to drink!
Spartans in Unison: FUS RO DAH!!!!!!

Tiamat666 said:
I think I saw a Fus Ro Dah in that video.
The Spartans are not playing fair.
Yeah, apparently Leonidas was Dragonborn, as he Fus Ro Dah's them off the cliff into the water, and also shouts at the Immortals.

That said, though, I would kill sommeone....in front of their own mother....for Immortal armor for my assassin character in Skyrim.
 

Strazdas

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this is great. i saw this done in Total War, but never in skyrim before.