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Top Ten Games Made by Historical Figures: EIGHT and SEVEN

http://dualshockers.com/2010/01/top-ten-games-made-by-historical-figures-eight-and-seven/

[quote]What if we lived in an alternate universe where the production and direction of video games was overseen not by a cabal of short-sighted, money-hungry cretins in suits, but was instead the domain of history’s most creative and all-around worthwhile human beings? What if the production of great, memorable games was no longer an accident, but was a regular occurrence easily replicated through common sense and creative insight? What if we could replace the likes of Peter Molyneux, a bloodless, loud-mouthed, blowhard propagandist who gets rich off creating the same disappointingly formulaic games filled with the same flat jokes, with someone like Aristotle, humanity’s greatest proponent of reason before the Dark Ages (and a pretty good art critic as well), or the unbeatable warrior-poet Musashi Miyamoto, or someone truly original, like director David Lynch or pulp legend Ron Howard?

It would be a world in which gamers would no longer repeat the often-heard phrase, “I could do better than that.” As we count down the hypothetical list of Top Ten Games Made by Historical Figures, this week we have games EIGHT and SEVEN. The former is a title created by the same team who brought you the American Revolution (also called the Founding Fathers of the United States of America), and the latter is a story-driven survival horror game by mad scientist and spiritual guru John C. Lilly, inventor of the sensory deprivation chamber.

NUMBER EIGHT

Fantasy Republic Revolution Tactics RPG
by
The Founding Fathers of America

“Among the arts, none can be called timeless or immersive save the great art of video games,” said Jefferson. “We must make a game recording our deeds so that the truth of our legacy will not be forgotten.”

Revolution Tactics is a tactics game that takes place during the dark ages of monarchy, when accidents of birth determined one’s station and every man was considered property of the state. One colony, destined to become an imperial superpower in its own right, was home to a band of heroes that rediscovered the ancient powers of self-rule, freedom from tyranny, and equality before the law.

All of the founding fathers receive RPG treatment; think Japanese RPG flash mixed with Western RPG sensibilities. General Washington is a level-headed paladin of few words; Thomas Jefferson is an ice-cold mage who, being a polymath, can attain mastery of multiple character classes; Benjamin Franklin is charismatic master of chaos magic; John Hamilton, a power-hungry genius, lurks in the background as an archer and scout; Sam Adams is a rabble-rousing bard; and then there is the sad tale of James Madison, who begins as an unparalleled warrior and proponent of freedom but, as the war drags on, he gives in to the lure of power, begins taking moral shortcuts, and eventually finds himself on the wrong side of a schizophrenic break from reality.[/quote]

http://dualshockers.com/2010/01/top-ten-games-made-by-historical-figures-eight-and-seven/

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