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 Send to email | Classical Gaming: A Roman Retrospective [Exegi Monumentum] in Cultureexegi monumentumPc GamesRetroRetrospectiveRome |  By Maggie Greene
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 Rock, Paper, Shotgun linked to this nice retrospective of Roman-themed games over the years, starting with Legionnaire (1982) and ending with Rome: Total War (2004). The series of musings includes wrap ups and discussion, strengths and weaknesses. I began my academic life as a classicist with a knack for lyric poetry — while I hopped ship to history (East Asian at that), I still have many reminders hanging around of those halcyon days spent with Horace and Livy. A nostalgic look back at how and why these classically-themed games have succeeded (or not) is a welcome reminder of many games I played as a youngster:
... SimRomes stick around for a reason. As much as I loved the alien nature of the Egypt in Tilted Mill's Children of the Nile, Rome remains the most accessible ancient city. A century of movies and books have primed us for gladiators, togas, legions on the march...much moreso than, say, Sophoclean drama, chitons and peltasts.
Oh, sure, they're generally wildly historically inaccurate (what else is new?), but panem et circenses, people - who needs realistic class conflict, slavery, and rioting when you've got red-caped legions and chariot racing? The wisdom of Roman satirists still holds true today. Anyways, it's a fun look back at one popular theme if you're a closet (or not) classics geek, or just a fan of some of the titles.
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| WarGames: A Retrospective [PC Gaming] | | Wired has put together a retrospective on the silver anniversary of WarGames, which if it isn't the first movie premised on PC gaming, is certainly the most notable. The film came out in 1983, the summer of Return of the Jedi. And as I recall it at the time, WarGames was well [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jul-2008 by Owen Good in PC Gaming Movies WarGames WOPR
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GameTrailers continues its Warcraft Retrospective by delving deep into the World of Warcraft, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. Th [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Nov-2008 by Alexander Sliwinski in warcraftwarcraft-retrospectiveworld-of-warcraft
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| Shockingly, Blizzard has 'plans beyond' Diablo III | | Filed under: PC, Action, RPGs
We rather like trilogies. Not only are they narratively neat, allowing us to indulge in our favorite characters and universes just long enough, but they bring things to a close before the roman [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Aug-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in BlizzardDiabloDiablo-3Diablo-iiiTrilogyWorld-of-Diablo
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