Let’s Compare Assassin's Creed Odyssey to Real-Life Greece 

George slowly realizing he actually wanted to be a historian instead of a games journalist

Alternate video title: George gets to write off his greece vacation as a business expense.

I'm sure lining up all these shots were equally satisfying and irritating.

There's something poetically beautiful about a temple dedicated to the god of blacksmith and craftsmanship being one of a few intacted buildings since ancient times.

Born and raised in Athens, when young the school bus would pass through a ring road that gave you direct view of the Acropolis hill. We liked it but, as you do, took the view for granted and got on with our lives. When 18 I visited the actual hill for the first time in my life. Yes I know right? Well, what I didn’t know was that just the scale of things (when passing through the Propylaia to get to the Parthenon) would make my jaw drop. Lesson of that day: never underestimate the beauty of things you would, otherwise, take for granted in your everyday life. I was blessed to have been born as a native to this city and I didn’t even know it.

As a teacher of ancient history, I'm very, very grateful for this video.

Well this was just fantastic. Inspiring work, George!

The editing in this is immaculate

As a Greek, I'm thoroughly impressed by the amount of work you put into this. Excellent job!

This was amazing. Really shows how much I underestimate the crazy amount of hard work and research that goes into making a game like this. So much media coverage of game companies acting sleazy makes you lose sight of the heart and soul developers put into their work. Also a fantastic piece by George who put a lot of care into this video, as he does most of his work.

We are NO WHERE NEAR the limit of creativity with video games/interactive media. Here’s to the endless locations and "phantom familiar" places yet to be explored!

Assassin's Creed Odyssey feels like i was time traveling to a live, breathing, beautiful Greece. Great game!

You ever just see a Bunnyhop video and think "I guess you CAN do that, George"

10:57 i can see my house lol

When I was really young, my dad had to travel to Italy for work purposes. At some point, even I spent a few months living with my parents there (although I don't really remember anything). Because of this, we have a lot of photography albums with pictures from famous cities of Italy like Rome, Venice, Florence, etc. When playing Assassin's Creed 2, my father looked at the TV and quickly said "Hey, I've been there before!" We spent an entire morning comparing places from Florence with the pictures we took there. I'm always really impressed with what Assassin's Creed does with reimagining those cities, it's incredible. Love the video!

As an architect, you can't imagine how happy I was playing AC odyssey. Wish there was a video like these show in my uni days. Great work!!

As an ancient and classical history nerd, I very much appreciate this

I went too Athens, the locations of the Battle of Marathon and Thermopylae, the Oracle of Delphi and Mycene in 2018, when i get back home I immediately went and bought Odyssey to go back to Greece and time. Such an immersive game, can't wait for Valhalla

I've been watching your work for over six years, and it's a joy to see both your audience massively grow and your work expand in scope and variety. Thank you for making the field of video game journalism all the better. Cheers.

Check the book "The Art of Assassin's Creed Odyssey". No matter what the rest of the game is, the architecture, design and art side of the game was studied through and through with historians and specialists using ancient maps and everything available

Fantastic job, greetings from Greece my friend 🇬🇷❤

This is by far one of your best work this year George.

Excellent video, just unbelievably informative and beautiful! I took a trip to Greece with my family several years ago and got to visit all of these sites. It really brought back some great memories seeing them presented like this. Thank you so much!

this was a relaxing watch. no ranting. the music and editing helped. thanks for this video.

incredible video! as a Greek and a big fan of yours i must admit this video really touched me.your knowledge of ancient Greece is mindblowing and very admirable. keep up the excellent work!

Always nice to learn more about Greece, thank you.

So nice seeing my history loved and researched with such respect, amazing work George!

they nailed the feeling of living in that world and even though not 100% accurate, the feeling and seeing those places in game was absolute bliss i mean, they went for the detail and i believed that im in greece at that time in history, fantastic thing, i hope that the next game whatever place it might be, will be as great as this was

This is amazing! You seriously have no idea how much I nerded out through this. I was able go go to Greece on a study abroad this summer and I definitely was geeking out and comparing things in my head. I didn’t see Delphi or any part of Crete, but we spent most of our time on Lesbos (with a quick mainland tour, where we did get to see the Acropolis). Things definitely were shifted around (the petrified forest is waaaaay further west and not as far north in real life), but overall it was faithful enough to even this little island. Unfortunately the main city, Mytilene, has drastically changed since then, so there weren’t really many ways to compare the area. Thermopylae is another area that is sized down significantly in the game, and there’s no massive water along the area, but it might be that geographical shifts over a couple thousand years caused the waters to recede, as it did in maaaany places in the region. Despite that, I still could imagine myself standing in the game when I stood there. I kept nerding out to the other students comparing things that I recognized from the game, and I’m soooo glad to see someone go in depth like this!

You've just created what's essentially the wet dream of any obsessive nerd, and I love you for it. On the subject, though, I'd be incredibly curious as to how the experience of "being there before" would change if you had played the game in VR. I've realised my own recollection of playing VR games as opposed to traditional ones is closer to having been to the place rather than playing it. It must be insane to turn that into a tour or a real life map guide.

Splendid work; it is apparent the amount of effort and thought went into your project. And as your audience, I greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Fantastic work! I feel like I never really have the time to watch your videos but they're always interesting.

I've been playing this game since the debut of quarantine, I find it to be beautiful and was really impressed with how it looked to be set in Ancient Greece. This video blows my mind! Great work, thanks for making this! :)

AC Odyssey has done a brilliant job with ancient greece , including how it presents ancient personalities such as Sokrates and Perikles. However , the surroundings are indeed totally off , Delphi being the most obvious since it ruins the atmosphere , which in reality is breathtaking. The fact ancient greeks decided to set the oracle there was not by accident. Having visited all those sites , i totally recommened visiting Delphi for its amazing energy ( you have to go there to understand it ) and the Chariot racer statue. The second best imo is the tomb of Philip in Vergina , because it never got vandalised and you can see literally everything our ancestors placed inside. Makes you wonder how many more stories and wonderful sites lie hidden beneath the soil , maybe 1 day !

Love this video game appreciation thing thats going on. You could never make enough videos that truly recognises the amount of work that goes into making a video game, let alone a triple A one. Good work.

This was fantastic. Bravo for the camera work and transitions.

Can we all just sit back and truly appreciate the time it must have taken to get these shots to match up?? Verrrrrrry niiiiiiiice.

Beautiful camera work both in game and out. Greece is amazing and whether it's from one guy with a camera or from 36 ubisoft studios, it's worth seeing.

That ending monologue was so soothing. As always George, thank you for this.

Another jaw-dropping video, George. I really appreciate this. Must have been an editing nightmare. ^^

I am obsessed with the Greek buildings and I absolutely love videos like this!

The whole time I was playing Odyssey I didn't realize how much I wanted this video.

Bro this is a 1:1 comparison. The camera angling too is spot on. Great job!

Your work is insane, I can't imagine how complicated this was to plan !

Having just finished AC: Odyssey and being thoroughly enthralled by its world, this video was just fantastic. Makes me wanna plan another vacation to Greece.

Wow. I don’t know why it took me so long to watch this one, given I know your stuff is consistently great, but wow. I was missing the hell out.

This is one of my favorite videos in the whole RU-vid. Thank you.

I'll be honest it's been a while since I watched your channel, but this video was amazing. Really took me back to the time I visited Greece.

Love how most of these amazing buildings still have at least some of their old glory, and their restoring some!

I've clocked 138 hours in this game, and I just finished the main story. I'm *almost* done completing every little objective in the whole map, and I've walked most of it. At one point I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things I felt I needed to do in the game and quit. Eventually I came back to it because I felt bad for giving up and my completionist side yelled inside me to finish it. And so I took Kassandra in and adventure again. And what helped me this time was to take my time and enjoy the view, and damn if the view wasn't amazing! Everywhere you look the game feels alive, from the cities crowded with people that mind their own business (the kids playing on one side, the group of people discussing between them, someone painting, another one working with stone, etc) to the fields brimming with flora and fauna, travelers who stop to mourn their friend, who was just killed by a bear... Breathtaking. Even with the obvious differences compared to the real thing, the astounding work these people put in the game shows everywhere. Thanks for doing this video, helped my wife and me to appreciate more such labor. Kudos to you.

This seriously took effort and time, job very well done sir!

I love this video's subject matter and execution. People really have no idea how much work it took to make it. You almost have to be a professional surveyor. First, you have to pay out of pocket to travel there. Then find the places on interest. Then you have to set up the cam in the right location. At the exact correct angle. At the exact right height. Constantly going back and forth between the game and real location till you get the shot just right. Then after all that and more you have to come back home and line up the pans and edit it seamlessly. Incredible work Super (and crew most likely). Great stuff. Thanks so much for doing and sharing it.

Hey a slight note on the Parthenon, the explosion you talked about was due to the fact that the ottomans used the building as a storehouse for gunpowder at the time

George is going through hardcore history phase, and I'm really digging it.

This is a fantastic program, thank you for making and sharing this

Congratulations for all of your efforts making this documentary worth to watch. Thank you. Great one 🎩

I love this because ive been to the parthenon in Athens many times and the temple of posidon further South.

It was interesting to live in "Armadillo" in West Texas while playing Red Dead Redemption when it first came out.

Really like your work. Enjoyed your video. I too love to visit AC locations and compare. So far it's been Venice, Rome and Paris. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Thanks

Thank you for this! I recently visited Athens, a few months after playing Odyssey and when I was there I was thinking of comparisons of the game's environments to its real life counterparts. The effort put into the architecture and to match it up closely to how it would've been in those times are incredible.

Chill, historical and informitive.

I haven't played too many games, but visually this was one of my favorite open worlds to explore.

This has to be one of your best videos. Fantastic work George.

I loved this video, thanks so much for putting it together - I can imagine it was a lot of work. Ive only started playing the AC series and am only up to number 3 now, but this really has me looking forward to Odyssey (and remembering back to my classical studies school trip!)

There's a really nice podcast run by an University history PhD and professor who talks about history and video games, The History Respawned. One of the latest episodes talks about Odyssey, it really is interesting and let's you understand the amount of resources big developers put on setting visual accuracy and environment coherence, something that dwarfs most movies.

I was able to find my way around Shibuya from having played The World Ends with You too many times...

George this is awesome. Well done dude and hope you enjoyed the trip

Thank you for making this video! I didn't realize I wanted this comparison as much as I did.

I'm waiting on that in depth Death Stranding video, George!

I can relate, when I went to Greece after playing Assassins Creed Odyssey. It was so surreal.

Here I am studying for my Greek exam and then I see George upload this, thank you for the unintended review session.

This is genuinely the best comparison video that I've seen on this game. Not only do you show damned glorious angles from both reality and the game, but the fact that you discuss the history and the scenery. Honestly, you should do all of their games - based on your ability to travel. Hell, I'd totally donate a 'Send Super Bunnyhop On A World-Game/Present-History Assassin's Creed Comparison Tour.' Incredible footage, also! Subscribed!

"Why yes, i am a Dionysian, how could you tell?" what kind of person do you imagine?

Sublime

George, i'm finally watching this video as I am nearing the end of my journey in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I gotta say, you called the shot you have gotten "breathtaking" and I wholeheartedly agree. This was an amazing extension of my journey through the game, and I sincerely thank you for making this video.

Such a good video I can feel passion in it. Go forward like that

I lived in Greece for four years and spent a lot of time at different places there. When the game came out going round them was the first thing I did. You should have gone to Cape Sounion and the temple of Poseidon too.

AC Odyssey might not what I would considered a good RPG game or a good "Assassin's Creed" game for that matter, but there is no denying that it has an amazing historical environment & lanscape locations, just like AC Origins.

Amazing video, very interesting and informative, you should make more videos like these!

Incredible video. Must've taken lots of work - amazing work!

Gameplay is repetitive but having a really large bright 4k TV and surround sound made this game into a legit experience for me. Seeing all the little torches light up during the night over the Greek islands with the music softly playing is so emotive. Having the meat of the real history to dive into makes it a great piece of edutainment as well.

As a Greek who has visited a lot of ancient sites in the country, I was impressed to see the work done by Ubisoft! Not only that, but the landscape and the language made me feel like I was actually in my home country!

Great work pal, iv been to kefalonia a few times now and loved visiting the same places and fond memories of where I went

I really like your last sentence of the video. Great work! Told you by a history student who is really into authenticity and construction debates btw.!

“...where something unimaginably old built by people with unimaginably different minds for unimaginable reasons seems to naturally slot in a commonly recognizable role in modern day entertainment” 👌😭

Hmmm, seems like a clever way to travel to different countries. Nice

Really nice comparison great work!

Absolutely excellent video. Really interesting and informative to boot!

I can't believe they actually turned AC Odyssey into a real country. It goes to show the length these developers will go to make their games truly immersive.

Now that's its been a while, do you feel often people are too hard on the Assassin's Creed franchise?

My God! Did I just stumble on the greatest video in RU-vid or what? Incredible comparisons. I mean I imagined AC Odyssey was shrunk, but I didn't imagine someone can accurately describe by how much and where exactly, I am absolutely mind blown. Amazing work, thank you very much for this video!

I was so looking forward to this video and it is everything I was hoping for!!

Yes George! We love you Big respect from London

“Its gay to breathe air because that air was probably breathed by other men” Emperor Julius Ceasar, 1337 AD

13:30 That was absolutely the best part of going to Greece! You can immediately understand why it became a sacred location when you get that amazing view.

My man, this video made me become super interested in greek mythology. Thank you so much.

Athens is one of the best cities I ever visited. Great food for the stomach, great knowledge for the mind, great walks for the body. I might have to play this game for a holiday in 2020.

Did you go to Greece this year, SuperBunnyHop? We might have been in Greece at the same time. Don’t think i saw you though.

Excellent! A lot of work to show so many differences.respect

awesome video. Great content and montage.