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#1 scouttrooperbob
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Does anyone know of some games that you can actualy learn somthing about history? Im not talking an educational game. Just a game with a story based on a real historically time peroid. Im really just curiouse.

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Red Dead, CoD4 to an extent.

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LA Noire

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Jeanne D' arc, one of my Favorite PSP games because actually was based on history.

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Through many games I learned how to survive a zombie Apocalypse.

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#6 jman1230
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The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

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Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed, LA Noire, Call of Duty or any other WWII shooter

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#8 araksik
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The Metal Gear series. A lot of the fictional events in the game are linked to real events, which you can learn a lot from, as long as you remember what is real and what is not:P

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#9 scouttrooperbob
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The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

jman1230

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

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I learned from MW2 and you shoot an assault rifle going full auto and have no recoil. It's amazing how far we've progressed in firearms :roll:
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[QUOTE="jman1230"]

The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

scouttrooperbob

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

Arguable. The Knights Templar were involved in many evil things (and did many horrible things during the crusades.)
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#12 scouttrooperbob
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[QUOTE="scouttrooperbob"]

[QUOTE="jman1230"]

The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

kieranb2000

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

Arguable. The Knights Templar were involved in many evil things (and did many horrible things during the crusades.)

I wont argue that but its also important to take in to consideration that there are bad eggs in every group and also their enemies were 10 times worse. The majority of the templars were not that bad especially not as bad as Assassins creed makes them out to be. There is also the fact that the all of the nights templar were exicuted on Friday the 13th.

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I learned from MW2 and you shoot an assault rifle going full auto and have no recoil. It's amazing how far we've progressed in firearms :roll:anime_gamer007

Yeah ive also learned from call of duty that The army will extend my lung capacity for sniping, they can make me stronger for the first 10 seconds of the game.

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#14 bigbenrfan99
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The Medal of Honor series has plenty of actual historical footage and a lot of historical details between missions.

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I've learned that you've got to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. Wait, that was Kenny Rogers...

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[QUOTE="scouttrooperbob"]

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

You said, "a game with a story based on a real historically time peroid." The assassins creed games fit that description. You didn`t specify that the story had to be historicly accurite. Uncharted 1&2 to some extent.
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#17 nickz_fpk
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Eternal Sonata gives you a great deal of info on Fredric Chopin's life also explains and plays some of his songs.

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#18 Scianix-Black
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Eternal Sonata gives you a great deal of info on Fredric Chopin's life also explains and plays some of his songs.

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Yep, the only game in this entire thread with any kind of historical accuracy. Another is Dynasty Warriors, but it's a niche title with a niche fanbase. If you can get past the fact that all the characters are heavily exaggerated to fit Japanese character archetypes and that you pretty much go through the entire game pressing one button (unless you're playing on chaos difficulty - who plays on normal anyway?), it's actually a pretty good sum up of the events of the Three Kingdoms era in China. It follows the novel pretty closely, especially the latest game, DW7.
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#19 MoNsTeR_zAcH
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CoD- No matter what time period you are in, don't get shot.

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#20 scouttrooperbob
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[QUOTE="scouttrooperbob"]

blahsalt48

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

You said, "a game with a story based on a real historically time peroid." The assassins creed games fit that description. You didn`t specify that the story had to be historicly accurite. Uncharted 1&2 to some extent.

Oh... i see what your saying. I miss under stoo my own question :D

it defenantly is based on a real historical time period. I forgot that it is a pretty good rendition too. just the story thats a little screwed up, but then again it is a video game.

Man those quote tags are screwed up. im not even going to try to fix them

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COD taught me how to reload a M60 machine gun.

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#22 MoNsTeR_zAcH
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COD taught me how to reload a M60 machine gun.

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#23 blahsalt48
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No biggie, just sorting out some potential confusion. That is what I do. I am the internet superhero. Crushing trolls and ending debates, even before they begin. They chose the templars, not because they are bad guys, but because they are good. They needed someone that the people were behind. If they chose historicly accurite bad guys the assassins job would be all to easy. They made them secretly evil, and good up front. I think Brotherhood is the first to have openly evil charactors. If I was part of a society who wanted to rule the world, I would need the people`s support. Would you be behind a horrable evil leader? Or would the people rise up against them? So they used good guys and asked themselves, "what if they were evil?"
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#24 Brittany5
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Assassin's Creed is an award-winning historical true-based third person, this game is a continuation of Ezio Auditore's story.

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#25 Mondrath
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[QUOTE="jman1230"]

The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

scouttrooperbob

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

Oh don't be so sure mate. They were actually bad at one point, just not in the same way AC portrays it. And lets not forget that we have them to "thank" for the modern form of banking

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i got advantage from each game i played, my english languge is gettin better & learn alot of new words & phrases

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#27 homeboylizard
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Does anyone know of some games that you can actualy learn somthing about history? Im not talking an educational game. Just a game with a story based on a real historically time peroid. Im really just curiouse.

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Let's put it this way. Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood saved me from going to summer school for history.
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#28 defter23
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I improved my English.Also I learned a little Italian(Thanks to Assasin Creed)

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#29 manocanada
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God of War and Age of Mythology games helped me pass my mythology class :)

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#30 ACx7
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[QUOTE="jman1230"]

The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

scouttrooperbob

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

There's good and there's bad. Regardless of what side you are on the other guys will always be the bad guys. So it could be told from either side and either side could be considered the good guys by themselves. Not everyone would view a group of religious soldiers fighting for the church as the good guys.

Assassins Creed holds many historical locations and facts if you read the little annotations when you visit a new area. Is it 100% historically accurate? Of course not. I can't think of any games that are.

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#31 SonicTheChimera
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I learnt some stuff about nuclear weapons in the Metal gear series, especially in peace walker with the subject on artificial intelligence and nuclear deterrence.

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#32 JohnF111
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World at War, you learn a little bit of history, and where some battles took place and who won and those things, also the guns of those days as well.
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#33 JohnF111
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[QUOTE="scouttrooperbob"]

[QUOTE="jman1230"]

The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

ACx7

Do me a favor and dont take any history facts from assassins creed not even to an extant. Many of them are false. Even the whole idea of the nights templar being bad is false.

There's good and there's bad. Regardless of what side you are on the other guys will always be the bad guys. So it could be told from either side and either side could be considered the good guys by themselves. Not everyone would view a group of religious soldiers fighting for the church as the good guys.

Assassins Creed holds many historical locations and facts if you read the little annotations when you visit a new area. Is it 100% historically accurate? Of course not. I can't think of any games that are.

I agree AC is fairly good i guess, you learn or atleast can distinguish the famous buildings and where they are and what they were for back in the days, also a little bit of the Medici family and so on but yeah it's a fairytale story it just happens to have some history weaved in it.
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#34 jsh020
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The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

jman1230

yes the games about a alien that tells you to kill your blonde girlfreind are realy historical, ecpecialy the whole templ;ar ordeal that was overblown to a massive exten, ayh religion in those times wer elike the root of all evil but everyone in them werent they play it oiff like that

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#35 blahsalt48
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[QUOTE="jsh020"]

[QUOTE="jman1230"]

The Assassin's Creed games to an extent.

yes the games about a alien that tells you to kill your blonde girlfreind are realy historical, ecpecialy the whole templ;ar ordeal that was overblown to a massive exten, ayh religion in those times wer elike the root of all evil but everyone in them werent they play it oiff like that

Did you read the other posts, or did you just find one that you didn`t agree with and start spouting stupidaty? How about the topic question itself? Did you read it, or just glance at it and assume you get what they are asking?
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#36 LazyMushroom
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L.A Noire, if you're a murderer then you can learn how to evade the police.

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heavy rain, how to cut your own fingers.

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heavy rain, how to cut your own fingers.

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That part is so scary :lol:
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#39 greensthooligan
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although not on ps3.....

Age of Empire's (mainly 2 & 3) can teach you a stack of stuff about history.