![]() ![]() Age of Empires turned players toward the past and compelled them with its bloody, battle-strewn vision. ![]() These historical figures were so much more absorbing than a typical sci-fi or fantasy setting I studied the Middle Ages at school because of them. I was Joan of Arc, protecting the Orleans Cathedral from the hated English I was Attila the Hun, letting Bleda, my murderous brother, die at the tusks of the iron boar. And I did, in a way: Even if the history itself was shaky (even then I knew that the Chinese invented gunpowder: why so few gunpowder units?), the passion for this history, told through gameplay, was infectious. When I was 9, my dad bought me a copy of Age of Empires II under the pretense that, since I refused to stop playing games, I might at least learn something about history.
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