Best PC Games - War. European civilization has produced many great works of art, fascinating people and marvellous tales, but it's war which has inspired the most computer games.
And let's face it, an online tour is never going to match the numerous emotions of a good pc war game. These are my picks of the current best. 1. Empire: Total War Photo Courtesy of PriceGrabber When I was playing the excellent Rome: Total War, I thought the only way it could be made better was by setting it in the Napoleonic era (a favourite of mine). 2. Set between 1090 to 1530 CE, M2:TW lets you command thousands of individually animated 3-dimensional warriors in battles featuring knights, archers, catapults and even elephant mounted cannon. 3.
A sequel to a well-loved game, Company of Heroes bills itself as a ‘Next Generation’ RTS and does several things very well: it improves upon the original, it offers several gameplay challenges and a multi-player mode, and it switches to the vital but often overlooked Eastern Front. 4. 5. Interactive history games - Historical Hoop Shoot, Fling the Teacher, Walk the Plank, Historical Shootout, Historical Hangman, Historical Duckshoot, Wordsearches. Best PC Games - Empire Building. PCs are the ideal platform for 'empire building' games, where the challenge usually involves exploring, building, fighting and expanding through several centuries of game time (and many hours of real time) until you've conquered most of the world.
These are the best empire buildings games with a European theme. 1. Age of Empires II Gold Edition A value for money entry in the famous ‘Empires’ series – the Gold edition contains the complete AofE II plus expansion packs - players start with a young nation and guide it through over a millennia of invention, expansion and conflict, from dark age to renaissance. The mix of resource management and real time strategy has proved successful and, although AofE II isn’t specifically set in Europe, the continent has contributed much to the source material including races and historical campaigns. 2. 3. Some people thought that Hearts of Iron - an empire building game set during World War 2 - was a bit rushed, a bit buggy and a bit simplistic. Interactive Games and Activities: New Page - 20110422 0943.
Games That Teach History. Jeremiah McCall on Using Simulation Games in the History Classroom. Oct 3 2011 (Note: This blog entry is the first part of a six-part series.
Read more on using games in the classroom in parts two, three, four, five, and six.) Using simulation games effectively in the classroom poses challenges. The power of such games to offer compelling and unique learning opportunities is very real, however, and well worth the effort. I invite readers to use the guidelines in this series to harness the power of simulation games. What is a Simulation Game? Before jumping into the thick of it, let’s deal with two preliminary points: what is a simulation game, and what are the strengths of simulation games for history education?
A simulation game is a game—computer game for the purposes of this series—that dynamically represents one or more real-world processes or systems in the past. In addition, simulation games are interpretations of the past that facilitate student questioning and criticism. General Hardware Considerations So much for the preliminaries. Playing History.
Games and Animations.