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Video games love historical settings: from adventure games like the Assassin’s Creed series, to action games like Call of Duty and its sequels, to strategic sagas like Europa Universalis; there’s no shortage of examples. Can computer games be more than entertainment, though, and can they actually teach their audience about what happened in the past?
By Fergus O’Sullivan. Here at the History Guild we like video games, especially ones with a...
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Plenty of video games are marketed as being historically accurate, but few truly are. In this article, we’ll go over five games that stuck to the truth as best they could, though we should note that there will always be some liberties taken. After all, a game wouldn’t be very exciting if it stuck exactly to history as we’d already know the outcome.
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