FILMMAKER REACTS: TOTAL WAR: THREE KINGDOMS

FILMMAKER REACTS: TOTAL WAR: THREE KINGDOMS | [ALL TRAILERS!!]

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@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

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@useurname123 Ай бұрын

Do all totalwar trailers. Its worth the react, especially Rome 2 and Atilla cinematic intro

@radiant_guardian7829 2 ай бұрын

The Three Kingdoms period of China was such a turbulent period, filled with so much heroics and betrayals. Its what the Dynasty Warriors games are based on Though there are two records of this period. There is the Records of the Three Kingdoms, written about around the 3-4th CE which is a more historical record of what had happened. And then theres the romance of the three kingdoms, written in the 14th century as an epic story that embelishes the story. Regardless, this period is such an interesting and exciting thing to learn and study about, and even play

@jomanthan 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact in several of Total War Three Kingdoms trailers the use ancient Chinese poemes as songs for flavour. My favourites is Liu bei tralier when the use the poem "the road to Shu is hard" and the Eight Princes that use "the seven steps poem". Both fit the contex but both are used a bit ironically. The road to shu is hard is about how difficult it is to travel to the shu region in china but in trailer its used also to symbolises Liu Bei very difficult journey to forming the Shu-Han Kingdom. While the seven steps poem was a plea from a younger brother to his older brother to spare him by reminding him that nothing good comes from brothers killing brothers. It's being used in trailer about 8 imperial princes that turned on eachother starting a massive civil war and almost leading to downfall of china when their foreign tribes that the used as mercenarys turned on them, but that is a story for another time.

@ronin_ch 2 ай бұрын

23:13 The reason it seems like an age rating change is because CA sells blood and gore as a DLC literally so that they can keep the age rating of the game lower lmao.

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

That's actually quite clever! 😆

@faketheo3432 2 ай бұрын

Cow Cow 😂 The Cs are pronounced like a sharp "ts". Like the ending of "cats". "Tsao Tsao" Cao Cao is basically the Chinese equivalent to Julius Caesar. He was on a similiar level in terms of military genius, political savviness and controversial reputation.

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the lesson haha.

@Quecojo 2 ай бұрын

Probably the most visually striking total war game in the series. The game itself is very good. Good combat, great designs, probably the best diplomacy in the series. Unit roster is the same though for each faction. There are no fantasy creatures, but we have Romance mode, in which the generals are super human. There is records mode as well in which the generals are normal units and have bodyguards, so it is more historical. Overall, great game with a crap post game support. Once the game was getting good again the company cut support and all future plans were cancelled sadly.

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

Did they move to an Egyptian game?

@viper32153 2 ай бұрын

@@kaizammit Yeah, Total War: Pharaoh. Though a recent major update expanded the scope so it's less "Egypt Total War" and more "Bronze Age Total War" since you can play as nations like Troy, Babylon, Akkad, and the Mycenae Greeks

@WuYixiang 2 ай бұрын

Coming from a ROTK background, I loathed the portrayal of characters in this game. :(

@viper32153 2 ай бұрын

@@WuYixiang Yeah, coming to it from something like Dynasty Warriors, even the "Romancing" mode in this game is way more grounded and muted than most depictions of the legends of the Three Kingdoms period

@SplendidFactor 2 ай бұрын

Still play this game to this day, it's a travesty how CA pulled support for this game. This was a work of art.

@devinphillips8085 2 ай бұрын

tbf almost no one bought the dlcs. I own them all but I get why a lot of people didn't buy them.

@SplendidFactor 2 ай бұрын

@@devinphillips8085 Yea releasing "War of Eight Princes" first was a colossal mistake. The Eight Princes are not at all popular in China, that whole era leaves a bad taste for them.

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

That's cool to hear, I hope it plays as good as it looks!

@RolandTheLight Ай бұрын

I guess it also was due to people waiting for TWW 3. I still lo e this game and feel like devs wanted to do more like they planned, but sadly they were moved to other project, cancelling it. Sad since we didnt even get to Red Cliffs event. I still hope that CA will change their mind and come back to this game at some point

@l33tspaniard Ай бұрын

@@SplendidFactor tragic that the dlc with the best trailer killed the game long-term

@omegon553 2 ай бұрын

Total war has some CGI cinematics for their older historical games you may be interested in checking out, Napoleon: Total War Trailer and the Total War: SHOGUN 2™ - CG Intro. They also have some older trailers using in engine stuff for Rome 2 Total War which is probably getting a little dated now.

@DjuraValtr Ай бұрын

While all the other clan leader narrate themselves in their videos. Liu Bei's videos has the chorus/citizens narrate his story. Something i really love about these trailers.

@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 Ай бұрын

I'm so happy that you went over these; they're some of the best TW trailers out there from a film-making perspective. Zheng Jiang's is especially cool.

@rennie44 Ай бұрын

The music in the first one is actually a song form of one of my absolute favourite Chinese poems, 十五從軍征, which in English roughly translates to "At 15 I Joined the Army". It's short and simple - a man joins the army at fifteen, and when he arrives home at eighty after a lifetime of war, he passes a farmer who tells him everyone in his village is long gone. He sees pheasants flying from the rafters and weeds growing on the well, and though he can gather the ingredients to make broth, there's nobody left to feed, and he laments the horror of war. At many points in history, including this one, the scale of Chinese warfare is just completely incomparable to a lot of Western warfare due to the sheer amount of people involved. You'd have armies in the hundreds of thousands on the field compared to usually just thousands or tens of thousands at most in Europe, and thousands of young men dying every day, only to be replaced by more with the next reinforcement. So while the key of the song is in major at the end of the trailer, it's far darker and more grim than it sounds. And, although it's not known whether it's true or not, it's said even Cao Cao himself cried when he heard the poem - whether this happened or did not happen, it speaks volumes of the effect the wars had on China.

@Kiesl_LK 2 ай бұрын

Three kingdoms has some of the best if not even the best trailers in the entire series ngl

@1Ashram Ай бұрын

You never saw the Warhammer ones did you?

@noelwym123 Ай бұрын

The leitmotif present at the end of most of the trailers is actually from an ancient Chinese poem normally dated to the late Han dynasty aka close to the Three Kingdoms era. The poem, "At Fifteen I Joined the Army on an Expedition" is an anti-war piece with the persona returning home as an old man to find home and hearth gone in his absence. A suitable choice of poetry to reference with regards to the setting. Another piece of music/poetry trivia is the song choice for the Eight Princes trailer. The poem the song is based on is the Seven Step Verse, composed by Cao Pi, one of Cao Cao's sons who was being threatened with execution by his brother and his father's successor, Cao Pi. The poem laments infighting within a family. Quite appropriate for Eight Princes, as all the eight were part of the ruling Sima family which had usurped the Cao family in the late Three Kingdoms period.

@cappyven6818 2 ай бұрын

I was literally re-watching the trailers last night lets go

@MonosEx 18 күн бұрын

My favorite will always be the Liu Bei one because it excels in "show don't tell" narrative

@oooeee5556 Ай бұрын

Three Kingdoms is pretty much a typical China medieval civil war. Which technically, led to the War of Eight Princes (also a DLC in the game). Which led to the invasion of the Five Barbarians during (or after) the War of Eight Princes if I'm right. Which also led to War of Sixteen Kingdoms. Mindblowing. Yeah, basically a mess. But none of them had something epic like Romance of Three Kingdoms which is a romancized version of it which made this specific period of history becomes something of a cinematic/game interest, especially in South East/East Asia. The second trailer is basically the story between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao (who is also playable). Former friends turned enemies. 6:31 Cao Cao is basically a tactical scheming genius warlord and his court in this moment has some characters that are unique, with their own models. The one with the eyepatch is Xiahou Dun if I'm right (He was shot in the eye with an arrow and yanked the arrow with the eye out and devoured the eye), Xu Chu (Cao Cao's bodyguard who was known to be a giant man) The rest is mostly characters with generic models. I like how CA made Yellow Turbans not bandits and murderers but potrayed them as desperate civilians wanting a change. Sadly, CA pulled it's plugs but modders do some amazing stuff to keep it alive. An entire revamp of the game, adding more historical characters with their own respective models and unique potraits instead of the generic portraits etc etc.

@defenderofthenorth52 Ай бұрын

That Liu Bei launch trailer! 🤯

@Dacamster101 2 ай бұрын

wow that 2nd trailer where they played a game while telling a story i loved it. It reminded me of the age of empires 2 chess game trailer, or opening cinematic. I used to love watching that everytime.

@akibatube335 2 ай бұрын

It's a running gag that CA has an incredible cinematography team for its trailers and marketing, but its games often fall short of the hype they garner. Other titles, such as Troy and Pharoah, are similar thanks to the game's historical setting and the teams' ability to sell that narrative. But I'd recommend any trailer across their whole library. Even their earliest titles despite the older graphics. A solid analysis as always, looking forward to more!

@koreancowboy42 Ай бұрын

I honestly blame Warhammer total war abit for the issue. Considering they've stuck to the whole idea of heroes and lords and mythic units and crappy combat. I miss Rome 2, Medieval 2 and shogun 2 type combat. Three kingdoms atleast allowed the player to play romance (your lords are single entity or normal mode total war, they have a retinue like every other previous total war game.) But it also doesnt help, they did Three kingdoms dirty.... good diplomacy, but crappy unit varieties. I literally had to use mods to create my own diversity.

@undertakernumberone1 Ай бұрын

@@koreancowboy42buuut... Pharaoh doesnt have Lords and heroes... they have the heavy singular character focus so far only where it made sense. Iliad. Warhammer. RottK. Pharaoh even at launch had less major characters, more like Napoleon.

@frogyert6633 Ай бұрын

I love this game, the main draw of the game is the characters thats why there was so many character based trailers. There are a few cutscenes in the game, the intro cinematic for each faction on the base game start date where it gives you some backstory and motivations of that factions leader (the dlcs just get the trailer instead for themselves), 2 cutscenes for when you reach duke and king which is the same for most factions, and an ending cinematic that reflects the original leader's ideals for the land (I'm 99% sure could be misremembering) you get quests during the game that are based off of the narrative and their starting situation in each start date some of which are historical but others are based of the factions historical opinion of other factions which does give some narrative but aren't required for you to progress and also have some generic ones like "reach duke rank". if you would like to see a more narrative focused three kingdoms game I would suggest looking at Dynasty Warriors 7 as it is mostly agreed as the best Dynasty Warriors game story wise you could split it up for each of the kingdoms (Shu (Liu Bei Kingdom), Wu (Sun family Kingdom) , Wei (Cao Cao Kingdom) and Jin which is like a continuation of the Wei kingdom story mode to show the winners of the conflict who usurp Wei and I would suggest doing it in this order). Anyway great video has definitely earned you a new subscriber.

@koraegi Ай бұрын

24:23 That was for their blood and gore dlc They usually make one for all their games

@desminly2976 2 ай бұрын

LETSSS GOOOOOO! I've so excited

@FALENTINO2 Ай бұрын

Eight Prince is a Different Timeline From The Three Kingdoms Timeline, The Eight Princes are set in the Jin Dynasty Period from 266-420.

@FALENTINO2 Ай бұрын

Not a Jin/Jurchen Dynasty, this really Different.

@TKKINDLE Ай бұрын

Love your work brother! Keep it up

@privatenyhiko2504 2 ай бұрын

Oh god he brought us back to DW4 with that Cow Cow

@thunzoom2 2 ай бұрын

Not sure if anyone's told you this yet but the extremely gory trailers are a way that CA avoids rating the game M. They release DLCs that add the gore for cheap and it avoids the rating system.

@Jack_Stones Ай бұрын

It is very interesting to have differences in quality of cinematics pointed out, things that I'd never have noticed. But take the Furious Wild cinematic for instance. On one hand I suppose it makes sense for the quality to be somewhat lower. That DLC is a faction pack, and is significantly cheaper than say, A World Betrayed, which is a campaign expansion. Same for the Yellow Turban Rebellion, also a faction pack. It seems somewhat cynical to think the price point of the DLC may impact the quality of the trailer. But I'd imagine it probably does.

@d_ssr5158 2 ай бұрын

The games was based on a mythical period similar to the illiad, oversimplified has a nice summary of it. And CA took advantage to make the game in 2 versions, historical and fantastical, where in the latter it behaves more like Warhammer with single entity heroes and lords being power units. The game is awesome still, and is in my opinion one of the most underappreciated TW titles.

@TheBigSpino 2 ай бұрын

Nice! Hopefully you do Total War: Rome II next : )

@오동엽-b1f Ай бұрын

Personally prefers Three Kingdoms than WH. I mean WH is a total banger, but Three Kingdom period is a famous Chinese historical events as well as timeless best selling novel(which is made based on history) in North-east Asia - so it kinda feels more special to see my childhood fantasy being realized.... Shame SEGA/Creative Assembly abandoned it :(

@Algernir Ай бұрын

I would love to see him react to the Atilla or Thrones of Britannia trailers

@generaldreagonlps6889 2 ай бұрын

I think their ad game definitely stepped up around 2017/2018. The ones from warhammer 1 are good but not that great and I barely remember anything from the older games although that may simply be because those were released 10+ years ago now. And speaking of Shogun, guess what time period they also based a total war game on?

@reginaldarchibald1616 2 ай бұрын

I really liked the Yellow Turban faction because they represent a really beautiful "What If" scenario if they ever win for the period - with how they sort of lift up the people and improve everyone's lives in an almost comical/mythical kind of "Good Ending" for China. But I have to admit that their DLC was an obvious Cash Grab - their faction a heavily stripped down/simplified version of the other factions - which may have also made playing them easier as I didn't have to deal with espionage and court intrigue. Real shame how they pulled support from this game, still had a lot of other topics or regions they could've developed if they just wanted to sell more DLCs. Just like you said with the Furious Wild as well - the budget was going down by that period, rather obvious with the trailer, maybe should've seen the writing on the wall by that time that they were on the way to cutting support from the game.

@undertakernumberone1 Ай бұрын

It is "Tsao Tsao", not Cow Cow

@huiyu6739 2 ай бұрын

What I like is that after the fall of the Han Dynasty, warlord armies still defeated and suppressed the powerful nomads and barbarians, and it wasn't until the powerful Chinese army was depleted in the civil war that the nomads and barbarians successfully invaded China.

@huiyu6739 2 ай бұрын

As a result, after the nomadic dynasties inherited Chinese territory, high-quality iron armor and iron swords were widely spread to neighboring countries, so that China's military equipment was no longer at the leading level. Like the Mongols spreading Song Dynasty gunpowder.

@huiyu6739 2 ай бұрын

After the nomadic dynasty inherited Chinese territory, high-quality iron armor and iron swords were widely spread to neighboring countries, so that the Chinese military equipment was no longer at the leading level. Just as the Mongols later spread the Song Dynasty gunpowder.😅

@FooFighterPlyr 2 ай бұрын

Yes the Reign of Blood DLC added gore and more gratuitous finishers for more mature players. Also if you have TW: Warhammer 3 there is an Asian fantasy inspired faction the Grand Cathay.

@FabianWinkler 2 ай бұрын

I am looking forward to your reaction to the Amazon Secret Levels episodes

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

They will be on the Patreon first and in full. I need to sort out an editor for KZbin so fingers crossed I can do that. I hope they're good and you enjoy watching them with me!!

@FabianWinkler 2 ай бұрын

@@kaizammit I am very curious, how good the episodes are. I am looking forward to the Exodus and Warhammer 40k one.

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

I heard the first few reviews weren't selling it but at the end of the day, it's up to us to see if we enjoy it. Fingers crossed.

@FabianWinkler 2 ай бұрын

@@kaizammit Exactly. Luckily we are able to form our own opinion.

@BeresVonSaladir Ай бұрын

I would say that they oversold the narrative in the game. The story is great because it's from the history and the novel, which is a very great story. I've read that novel several times and I think they did represent that story nearly perfectly in the trailers. I could almost always tell what exactly was happening in each scene of each trailer, and I think they're genius representation of the scenes in the book. In the actual game, however, the game rely WAY too much on you knowing the story to push that narrative through. Important novel characters often show up with little to no fanfare or indication that they are special. There are missions that try to push you to follow the footsteps of the characters you're playing as but it's extremely easy for you to break it. For some characters (like Liu Bei, my favourite) it's outright impossible to trace his historical path.

@kennethenos6334 2 ай бұрын

Hey Kai! I've been watching you for a while and you do amazing work i love watching your videos! If you liked these trailers you HAVE to watch the Try Total war trailers they're incredible!

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

I'll check them out, thank you!

@Phil_the_pain Ай бұрын

Hi next one how about reacts to all warthunder trailers?

@lunsen402 Ай бұрын

you should check out the rome 2 total war and attila total war trailers they have some good cinimatic trailers especially attilla.

@wallnutinton4332 2 ай бұрын

Will u be reacting to the older god of war games??? I’d love for you to react to the lore of kratos

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

Yes I am, I've got it planned! I hope you come back and watch.

@J4CK_1-1 2 ай бұрын

Do you have any plans on watching the Tv show Arcane?, It really shows what the league of legends world can be when made into a true piece of cinema.

@kaizammit 2 ай бұрын

Season 2 for Patreon only. If I can get an editor in for a good price, I'll bring it to KZbin. Depends if I enjoy the 2nd series too.

@ZaydinTTV 2 ай бұрын

Feels like you should do a reaction to Dead by Daylight trailers at some point; they aren't exactly rich with narrative but are still fun to watch.

@scavenger6268 2 ай бұрын

Query: Why do you talk while they are at the same time?

@CheeseySword 2 ай бұрын

CA really doesn't put the same effort into trailers anymore. Hopefully that changes in the future with the next game.

@sauronplugawy3866 2 ай бұрын

The marketing team got purged, that's why the trailers aren't as good anymore.

@l33tspaniard Ай бұрын

Or the music. They put so much effort in this game only to mismanage and abandon it. Christ.

@Marxwazr1ght 27 күн бұрын

@sauronplugawy3866I thought they did pretty well with the warhammer games. Trailer and music wise

@buinghiathuan4595 2 ай бұрын

Top 3 total war game ever.

@Chonobataar 2 ай бұрын

This could have been one of the greatest games ever made by CA. It was truly magnificent in all aspects. It's trailers were decent, but as is typical with CA, when the budget lowers... everything else lowers too. My favourite trailer is the Dong Zhuo one. Such power, majesty and cruelty, all in one. It's such a great pity, that they Abandoned the game.

@NukeOfficial-l2d 2 ай бұрын

I got into Total War games with Rome and Rome II, played tons of that. Nothing is ever gonna beat the three Warhammer games for me though, just the sheer diversity of units between the different races is crazy (let alone the amount of factions you can have playing at the same time in one campaign). Magic being a thing is just a bonus at that point, which makes the Lords and Heroes way more interesting than oh this is like a regular guy with a sword *but stronger*.