Even Emperor Napoleon will make an appearance in the game from One More Level and Lyrical Games — he also features in the plot-driven video.

The trailer marks the first appearance of the Shrike, the rebel leader who is fighting against Napoleon’s empire in occupied Eastern Europe. It also provides a closer look at the other characters in this supernatural reimagining of the Napoleonic Wars: the resurrected Legionnaire William Dowsett, his comrade James Stewart, and the lamplighter Lucjan Skawinski. As Napoleon’s conquest stalls in Eastern Europe, a plague spreads across the continent in its wake. William is afflicted by this same dark curse, which corrupts his body yet grants him a dangerous power: he can now hear the voice of Emperor Bonaparte in his mind, who is guiding him to overthrow the Shrike‘s resistance movement.

The player character, William, is a young and bold Englishman disillusioned with the monarchy. Inspired by Napoleon’s ideal of a unified Europe, William volunteers to fight for him. The story begins with him waking up on a grim battlefield, seemingly the only soldier left standing with his mind intact. With little to no memory of his life before that moment, players must decide whether to trust the remaining survivors, who claim to be his former comrades. Will he remain loyal to his emperor, or follow the Shrike in the shadows? Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is voiced by César Award-winning actor Vincent Cassel. He stands at the head of the largest army Europe has ever known. William hears the Emperor’s voice in his head, as a father would speak to a son. His victory at Waterloo opened the way east, but the French army has since halted in Eastern Europe. It is Napoleon’s ambition that drives the campaign, as he fights to maintain control of a war that has become unnatural.

The Shrike is a rebel fighter who moves through occupied Eastern Europe with a strength that no ordinary soldier possesses. Answering to no authority, she fights for the people living under the Empire’s occupation and has her own plans for William. Partway through the story, her voice joins Napoleon’s inside his head. James Stewart, the son of a Scottish highland blacksmith, left home to volunteer for Napoleon, convinced that his service would earn him glory and win Scotland its freedom. He is William’s closest friend in the Legion, a skilled weaponsmith and a source of light amid the carnage of war. Although he claims his devotion to the Emperor is absolute, will the supernatural realities of this horrifying campaign test it? Lucjan Skawinski is a Polish craftsman and veteran of multiple wars who has turned his back on battle. He travels the ruined countryside, searching for safe havens for weary travellers and marking each one with a hand-crafted lamp that he keeps filled with seemingly endless oil. He is calm, well-read and full of ambiguous aphorisms; however, something about him unsettles the survivors he claims to help.

Valor Mortis will be released on 13 October for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC — a demo is also available on Steam for PC. It will also be part of the Xbox Game Pass lineup.

Source: Gematsu,Steam