Vi fikk anledning til å snakke med Gordon van Dyke for å finne ut mer om War of the Vikings. Det er som kjent oppfølgeren til War of the Roses, som forøvrig også ligger til grunn for eventyret, men de har lagt ned mye arbeid for å få det til å føles unikt.
Vi spurte blant annet om hvorfor de valgte å satse på vikinger:
- There are a lot of really awesome time periods. Not just the viking age. But there is a lot of awesome time periods that you see really fits with that technology was really relevant in a lot of different regions and culture that were that you would almost think were disconnected, but there are so many similarities like Feudal Japan for example.
Vikinger er også noe som ligger van Dykes hjerte nær, og han liker ikke hvordan de pleier å bli portrettert:
- But I just really had this interest in the Vikings, because you don't really see a lot of games that take from a factual standpoint and look at it and try and take that historical time period and reflect it more accurately. You always see it taking the mystic area where you have it always themed around Thor and things like that.
Dette og mye mer finner du i GRTV-intervjuet under her.