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In one of the world’s best-selling game series, previously unknown Assassin’s Creed, Stokmarknes’ Sindre Bergfall (25) voices several of the characters.
Western radiation will be heard in the recently released game, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. Where the Norwegian Vikings become the subject.
The game series has more than 140 million sales since the first game arrived in 2007 and has a large fan base.
Bergfall has been following the games himself since he was 12 years old. Never in his wildest imagination did he think he was going to be part of the series.
– Just being able to have something like that in the CV, it’s very nice, he tells NRK.
They never told me what to play
The action of the game begins in Norway, but continues in England. There one must build his own village, while negotiating and fighting against King Alfredo the Great, among others.
HUGE: – It’s got a size, a graph, and an experience that is unparalleled with what I’ve seen before, Bergfall says of the game he’s in.
Photo: Private
Players must be able to follow in the footsteps of the great pagan army, which devastated England in the 870s.
The developers were looking for Scandinavians who could give the correct authenticity to their Viking characters. The paper more or less fell into Bergfall’s lap of his agents. He was also not told what kind of games he should work with.
– It was very secret and very secret, he says.
The main character of the game is Eivor, a traditional Norwegian Viking name for women.
You can still choose between being a man or a woman. It is Danes Magnus Bruun (known from The Last Kingdom) and Cecilie Stenspil who have the voices of Eivor.
– You are not going away from me
Bergfall still can’t reveal as much about the game or his own roles. But there is more than one who has given his voice.
– You can say that you find me many times in the game. With different voices, he says.
– You really have to go through me to advance the game action. And there are several times. No doubt
And although he doesn’t talk about the main characters, he has thought a lot about each voice he has given.
– You have shows like HBO’s The Vikings and The Last Kingdom. There they have developed a general Scandinavian way of speaking, says Bergfall.
– Here you come to a world where you find yourself in many different places. It was important to think about where you were on the map. It was important to me to create something that was almost a reality. It doesn’t just play a stereotype, he says.
The developers took an inspiring trip to Lofoten
The developer of the game series is French Ubisoft, which also has a branch in Canada.
In 2018, a group from the Canadian branch traveled to Nordland to take inspiration from Viking history and nature.
– Traveling around Lofoten gives you a completely different vision of what the area is like. You can imagine how the story unfolded right where you are, says Darby McDevitt of Ubisoft.
He is the director of the game’s history and has worked on it since 2018.
The director says that much of the beginning of the game is in Norway, but he still won’t reveal which places and people from reality the player may meet.
NORTH MYTHS: The games in the series tend to be based on real events and places, and then attract fiction and mythology to make it more exciting.
Illustration: Ubisoft
Also read: The new Assassin’s Creed game is from Norway: – High expectations
I hate hearing your own voice
“Valhalla” launches on the next generation of Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles, as well as Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
The scheduled launch is at the end of the year.
Bergfall says he is guaranteed to play it, but is not necessarily looking to hit himself.
– Listening to my own voice is perhaps one of the worst I know, to be honest, he laughs.
