Filmmaker REACTS to World of Warcraft Cinematics | Experts React

Filmmaker William Rouse is back to take a look at the most beloved World of Warcraft cinematics. From the awakening of Arthas from Wrath of the Lich King to Varian's epic landing to the Broken Shore from Legion. He will then discover the Lordaeron Battle from Battle for Azeroth, Sylvanas fight against Bolvar from Shadowlands, and finishing with the rebellion of Grommash and his Iron Horde.
For years, people have been craving for Blizzard to make a full CGI movie on WoW, since everyone will agree that each one of their cinematic, regardless of the expansion's quality, is a 5-minute masterpiece that will be rewatched for years to come.
But how well crafter are those cutscenes in terms of cinematography?
The camera movement, the lighting, the choice of colors, the music, all contribute to WoW's storytelling, and William is gonna analyze all of these details with you.
Let's head back to Azeroth for this episode, and see what our expert will have to say about these epic cinematics.

World of Warcraft takes place in a 3D representation of the Warcraft universe that players can interact with through their characters. The game world initially consisted of the two continents in Azeroth: Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. Four separate expansions later added to the game's playable area the realms of Outland and Draenor and the continents of Northrend and Pandaria. As a player explores new locations, different routes and means of transportation become available. Players can access "flight masters" in newly discovered locations to fly to previously discovered locations in other parts of the world. Players can also use boats, zeppelins, or portals to move from one continent to another.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:43 - Wrath of the Lich King
2:45 - Legion
5:05 - Battle for Azeroth
7:38 - Shadowlands
10:02 - Warlords of Draenor
12:18 - Conclusion
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[@user-fd5nz5lo7m]

Editors really outdid themselves in this one. Memes were on point.

[@slickman5969]

:)

[@astral6749]

They even added a cinematic aspect ratio

[@nermor]

so true

[@jp4951]

I can't stop laughing at the 7:30 skit. Give that editor a raise. That was perfect.

[@thetruegoldenknight]

AS a film graduate myself, William Rouse is absolutely valid to keep admiring the lighting and the low/high angle camera shots.

[@williamErouse]

It was so good, I couldn't help myself! Hope all is well!

[@nickyCage94]

OOOH A FILM GRADUATEEEEE

[@s1rcornholio]

More plz with this director. Love his energy with the way he is passionate about his craft.

[@dante1961]

Facts

[@williamErouse]

I appreciate the love Jared! Hope all is well.

[@williamErouse]

@@dante1961 Thanks bro!

[@padalit4031]

Wrath of the Lich King cinematic will always be the greatest.

[@ExUSSailor]

Ahh, yes. Fond memories of when WoW was still good...

[@thatsthat2612]

@@ExUSSailor I feel like the only person who loved cataclysm

[@halalwrld]

i agree it is the greatest but the most badass will always the the warlords of draenor one

[@pirategoku3218]

Best of wows peak of gaming and legion

[@TheMrFilipin]

Wotlk cinemaric Is good beucas IT was first cinematic WHO had the best cinematic. But from all cinematic Now. Wod Is the best.. And expansion wotlk was good? Yeah maybe but Its peak And downhill in the samé time

[@2impgaming]

always annoys me if people don't mention that the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic trailers is almost 15 years old now.

[@accidentalgenius8252]

Ok well ya dont have to get annoyed neckbeard

[@Gulliedoutbigup]

If that annoys you... lol I'm assuming your ex girlfriend is in witness protection

[@DisasterTheoryX]

@@Gulliedoutbigup LMFAO!

[@stiflash]

he made a lot of interesting points and seems quite knowledgeable, i'd watch other critiques from him tbh

[@williamErouse]

Thanks for the love. Hope all is well!

[@khornatekrieger3023]

Dude the fuckin' Editor is on point for this episode. 'Preciate you dude/dudette.

[@crackerjackbundy]

came for the video, stayed for the editor, FOR THE HORDE.

[@Demonamic777]

Terran Gregory is an amazing person and his team does amazing work for the cinematic department. I met him at my very first BlizzCon, super chill and social dude. Literally got his job by making cinematic videos of Warcraft before they hired him to do it as his job.

[@HavocHounds1988]

I agree, he is a master at what he does as well as his whole team. The cinematic team has gotten better and better as tech has evolved, but even in that WotLK (Wrath of the Lich King) cinematic which was made most likely in 2007 the detail and story telling was great. I always get chills when I hear that first part of "Arthas my Son" play.

[@aliciafraser1835]

Are we sure he's not one of the weirdo rapists though? Seems like everyone there is now.

[@IBrowneeI]

Whoever the editor for this was, I love you. Whoever let that editor have fun with this, love you too.

[@koreancowboy42]

Wrath of the lich king cinematic is so amazing they sold it off with the perfect animations, music and graphics. But also during the scene with the greenish glowing drink, it's indeed an good way to use it for evil as a way of representing "corruption"

[@Raffalius]

Actually the dragon in game of thrones looks like the dragon in The Wrath of the Lich King trailer. This came out years before GoT. I am almost 100% sure that the people behind GoT used this trailer as inspiration for that scene.

[@toastysock]

It's nothing like the dragon in GOT. The GOT dragon is a frost dragon. The WoW one is bones, but with frost powers. The only thing connecting them is frost, and that's pretty generic.

[@DrunkCrazyMonkey]

Well if you didn’t know. Wow got inspired by GoT books and LoTR books. So doesn’t really matter what came out first.

[@Sparking_Ram]

I want more WoW stuff purely so the Editors can go off more. I may be Alliance but I love these guys.

[@Noxxoll]

I love the small detail of the aspect ratio being similar to film

[@Dejavuproned8]

The editor casually throwing shade throughout the video had me!

[@okami_eddy]

If this guy comes back for more, I'd definitely like to see his reaction to the intro cutscenes of the Dark Souls games.

[@M4A1MG42]

On the topic of cinematics by Blizzard, I'd be interested to see his reactions to the Starcraft II cinematic sequences.

[@017renegade]

These reaction videos are so much better when you have game experts advising you. One of the best WoW cinematics reaction/comment videos I have seen so far. I'd love to see a deep dive of this man going through the series of cinematics created around Varok Saurfang in Battle for Azeroth.

[@toddoverholt4556]

The thing I like most about the battle for azeroth trailer is the final shot where it's basically an exact replica of the original warcraft 1 box art

[@simpslayer9284]

We need him to react to the Total war Warhammer cinematics

[@spikertaker]

Whoever possibly didn't notice, 11:30~ is a callback to how Grom died to Mannoroth exploding in Warcraft 3, however here he survives.

[@DVS-rb9wn]

This guy really explains a lot, which is really nice, and he's passionate, would love to see more

[@Warglein]

The lich king movie is about15 years old and still looks better then most cinematics today xD

[@DarkFruitTT]

They had some fun with this one, love it

[@FallingEastward]

Small thing to say: He mentions how the Lich King doesn't exert himself realistically when he stabs his sword in the ground. Which would be a slight oversight for a human or even vaguely mortal character, but, and correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not really into WoW, but in D&D, which I am super into, Liches don't need to breathe, nor eat, nor drink. I would argue that the Lich King not making any recognizably fallible noises like pain or exhaustion, increases his creepiness to the audience, and sets a dark fantasy tone for the game. Even so, great video, I friggin love this guy

[@IBrowneeI]

6 months late, but yeah, basically. He's not a Lich like the actual Lich characters in the game, he's still in general human form, flesh and all. Buuuuut he is also undead (literally cut out his own heart in an attempt to kill whats left of his humanity, figuratively and literally) so he's just fueled with unholy magic, enhanced further by the sword and helm. Hell, the sword itself being of a particular kind of blade magically powered by crap I won't get into would pretty much have it pierce the ice with ease regardless of the users strength. I mean for starters its called 'Frostmourne', and they skipped over the brief moment of him holding it out right before the ground stabbing where bits of snowfall were being drawn to it and powering it up, so to speak. Metaphors surrounding how 'cold' death is, the Lich King is just a powerhouse of unholy frost magic. Stabbing into the ice is just generously for dramatic effect for viewers. In reality _(from this fantasy perspective)_ he could've made it obliterate all the ice away without even touching it. Aaaand in saying that, I never thought of it before, but I guess he just felt like waking the dragon up and that's it. Just lets it dig itself out of the ground.

[@williamErouse]

@Gamology I appreciate the love! This was so much fun!

[@BrokenNoah]

One of the things I'm hoping to see with MS buying Activision Blizzard is perhaps they are open to having the Blizzard games be done in a TV show format like what they are doing with Halo. Not live action, just make the CG trailers into shows.

[@dominosdomino9617]

I’d love to see him react to the diablo ones now lol

[@williamErouse]

I'll def check that one out!

[@kayrashyallenansatsu7918]

Editing was the best part hahaha love you guys

[@derrickhaggard]

He needs to come back and react to Judgment, and it's sequel Lost Judgment as this spin-off series in the Yakuza Series has some of the most gripping sequences and some of the most impactful cutscenes, and some of the most well written, well-liked characters in the series to give you an example the cutscene leading into the final boss fight of Lost Judgment "spoiler" during the cutscene the main antagonist tells lead protagonist likeable lawyer turned PI Takami Yagami that the murder he committed, and the massive cover-up to hide it was all for the greater good basically him committing these horrible acts was all in the name of justice and Takami calls him out on his BS with one of the coolest speeches that also sums up his character "You tell yourself it was all for the greater good. You try to justify it, that's why you're able to ignore and look past all the pain you caused. But she can't speak her peace and if I don't raise my voice for her THEN WHAT JUSTICE IS THERE?!"

[@danaos4120]

The Art team of WOW is literally the best there is. They are incredibly masterfully good.

[@thomasb7347]

Eould be interesting to see him react to the animatics using in game models like the battle of wrathgate

[@OriginalPuro]

You should have listened to the music and the speech. WAOW I never realized that the Moon was glowing on the stairs at Icecrown Citadel as Lady Sylvanas was walking up, holy crap, she was blessed by Elune for the job.:D

[@thomasb7347]

That for the horde gave me legit chills

[@edwin4625]

2:11 *sees Kratos for the first time* Says, "He's from Fornite!" *smack to the back of the head* (moment)

[@AlfredoGomez-kp4cf]

The widescreen is a nice touch

[@corseeis482]

I'd like to see you react and break down to astartes a Warhammer 40K fan-made episode that's in five parts

[@thekidinyourbasement1802]

Nobody: Me when I am sitting at school at a freezing day with no jacket and wearing shorts 0:49:

[@jpjfrey5673]

It's egregious that they showed Shadowlands trailer and not Cataclysm or MoP trailers, those had much more going for them

[@AutoKorrect]

The meme cuts in this video was insanely funny.

[@RivalRen]

The only thing that keep me coming back to wow is the cinematic trailers

[@LuckySmurf]

Never thought I'd see anything Warcraft related on this channel.

[@eiv-gaming]

Would be cool to see him critique the first and the last ones. Compare and contrast.

[@thomasb7347]

The first trailer immediately hooked me

[@eiv-gaming]

@@thomasb7347 I was amazed that anything CG could look that good. How far we've come :)

[@prophetroll4086]

I love game trailers like these more than the games 😄 I'd like to see a reaction to the eso cinematics

[@dizzywhite4209]

hahaha i love that he called sylvanas "pink lady thing" xD

[@williamErouse]

haha I'm new to World of Warcraft. Hope all is well!

[@Ghettofinger]

I enjoyed the video a lot more knowing that the editor was a proper man of culture.

[@dakkadakka236]

Their cinematics are still greatest top tier than all of the other great cinematics 5:45 Chewbacca? DOESN'T HE EVEN KNOW THE MINOTAUR? I could understand if he say "Is that minotaur?" to Tauren but Chewbacca? lmfao 7:13 Ok, he doesn't even know what an Orc is. Aren't orcs pretty famous in media? Greenskin, sharp and big tusks, those stuffs, man 7:28 Kor'kron editor DAMNNNNNN 🤣🤣🤣🤣 11:46 Kor'kron reference again lol 🤣🤣

[@shinysnivy6604]

We need a video of him reacting to the starcraft 2 trailers.

[@kingscrodinger4699]

We need "Interviewing the Gamelogy Editor"

[@vincentquijano7657]

Iirc, blizzard made a reference to GoT by calling the final frozen throne undead mission “symphony of frost and flame” (song of fire and ice). When the TV show came out, GoT referenced that scene from wrath of the lich king trailer.

[@yatosensei6078]

God that WOTLK trailer always gets to you, its SOOOOO good!

[@marcussimmons4122]

I havent played wow since the origin of the lich king and what give wow the right the look this good 😱

[@angel123d1]

Maybe a react of the Astartes mini series would be interesting

[@sefin84]

If you didnt yet, can you check the Division E3 cinematic reveal? I wonder what you think: )

[@deaththunder9678]

There we go World of warcraft let's go.

[@rockingmaniac1808]

The Wotlk cinematic always hits me hardest, but nothing gets me as hyped, as BFA Cinematic :D

[@AllGamerOfficialChannel]

Awesome 👍

[@XAlted1]

I'd want to see how he reacts to games like HellBlade Senua's Sacrifice & some of the Returnal boss fights. The two games might not be good for reaction but I'd want to see it. 🤔

[@Gnomojo]

You’re fantastic dude. So smart

[@psionic_gamer]

Yo please let him react to the ESO cinematics. There are some amazing ones for that game fr

[@berryy82]

We need this guy to review astartes warhammer 40k

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

not gonna lie, when he started talking over one of the best music soundtracks every created, I was ready to punch the wall.

[@greenjeff353]

Should have filmmaker react to StarCraft 2 cinematic trailers next.

[@pirategoku3218]

Wrath of the lich king: hello my son Games of thrones: Dad!

[@ZomaTheSecond]

We need him to react to a narrative game like Detroit Become Human or The Walking Dead

[@NobodySoldier]

II don't know if it would be enlightening. These games try to mimic the Cinema, purposefully limiting themselves to be akin to TV shows and movies. What is satisfying with Pre-rendered cutscenes from WoW or God of War is that they learn from Cinema. They grasp what it offers then go beyond because they only have a couple of minutes of video to create.

[@williamErouse]

I just played Detroit! It was soooooo gooooodddd!!!!!

[@raypalmer5125]

Please do ESO Cinematic trailers next.

[@reusablebelt1718]

Artyoms Nightmare for Metro exodus, beautiful trailer and im curious what he'd think

[@BubblepunkAD]

The Editor is the GOAT

[@user-hc1jn6fj2u]

WOW(literally)

[@witchblade100377]

Have him react to Knights of the Old Republic cinematics.

[@nathanmitchell7961]

I love this guy man

[@williamErouse]

I appreciate the love Nathan! Sending love back your way as well. Hope all is well this new year!

[@nathanmitchell7961]

@@williamErouse Things are great man love hearing your overviews

[@williamlee9669]

Should've show him the Pandaren trailer

[@brodyroberts3112]

Can we get the Star Wars MMORPG cinematics? Those are gorgeous.

[@MrZenmancer]

It looks like the dragon from GoT...then you realize it came out an entire decade before the frost dragon in GoT.

[@davidchia4499]

The most amazing part is how old it is.

[@indexfunds101]

all cool and funny, now lets see him react to sadest video games endings such as rdr 1 ending etc

[@1yanyiel]

He should react to assassins creed trailers! I'm not sure if he has in previous videos

[@bhavyagupta1503]

you do assassin creed trailer i am not a hardcore assassin creed game fan but man they nail the trailers everytime

[@Qunia]

Would love to see my man’s react to God of War 2018.

[@nedys9419]

He should see the Old Republic trailers.

[@Cenforge]

Bravo.

[@howdycrusader355]

You should have shown warbringers: Jaina

[@silly.liz.]

Hey Gamology have you considered doing Spec Ops reacting to Ghost Recon Future Soldier, one of my favourite tactical games I would absolutely love to watch that video

[@sosaymande8814]

They should have him do the assassins creed trailer as well

[@AlbertusSalvatierra]

Now he just needs to react to Blur’s Halo cutscenes

[@g.a.m.m.o.n.7395]

Please have him react to all Assassin Creed Trailer next

[@nyizaw8335]

The Lich King dragon didnt looks like the Game of Thrones.... Game of Thrones scene took inspiration from that trailer. :)

[@mikeyyaylan2748]

They need to do ready or not

[@rafaelpozo9962]

One thing no one can deny about blizzard is that they are great at cinematics

[@emulation2369]

Show him Astertes mini-series

[@deaththunder9678]

Arthas!!

[@SuperTyrannical1]

He loves lighting, wait till he hears about ray tracing. XD

[@williamErouse]

That sounds amazing I def have to look that up!

[@shaneroberttate7270]

Please do the all the Cinematic Trailer of The Witcher 3

[@_rymak_2044]

React to DMC 5 slow mo opening...

[@Warglein]

Max Squareexnis can hold up with blizzard movies… offcourse theremany of them today, but i am mostly sure that they are all inspired by those great cinematic trailer/movies

[@HavocHounds1988]

I like the editor of this video. Lok'tar Ogar.

[@brianstorm8194]

you should let him watch some of ESO trailers😃😃

[@thatguyaust1n637]

He should do Destiny 2 Cut scenes!😁💯

[@kriger619]

Hero shot of WoW's greatest villain.