Civ III Mod Teaches Canadian History

I admit that I loved History class all through school. I’m a nerd like that and I’m comfortable in my nerdiness. Some folks though, just don’t care to learn history, and with the sometimes dry, dull and frankly lifeless details we’re expected to learn and rejoice at remembering, it’s not surprising. Why not then, combine something students struggle with (history) with something they might enjoy (gaming).

2K and Bitcasters have come together to create a professional mod for Sid Meier’s Civilization III sim that allows Canadian students to recreate, rewrite, and in a sense, relive their country’s history. HistoriCanada: The New World will be donated, yes, for free, to 100,000 high school students across the country in a bundle with Civ III. The game’s introduction set the scene in 16th century North America:

“For thousands of years the aboriginals have taken meat from the forests, fish from the rivers and grain from the soil — and settled inter-tribal disputes with sharpened flint. Now their way of life is about to be tested, for the year is 1525 and large boats of wood carrying a different, pale-skinned man have arrived off the eastern shores of a land which is surprisingly not India or China. The struggle for survival begins anew. Can the Europeans carve a niche for themselves in the ‘New World’? Will the aboriginal inhabitants prosper with the new opportunities or struggle with new challenges?”

Love it!

If you already own Civ III, you can visit the mod’s official site to download it and give it a try for yourself.

Via | GamesPress