| Mail |
You might also like: WoW Insider, Massively, and more

Reader Comments (4)

Posted: Apr 3rd 2006 3:16PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
My favorite part of Civilization was the historical truth in that experienced hard-scrabble settlers had a one in 36 chance of taking out a fully-armored battleship. It's that kind of realism that needs to be in our schools.

All joking aside, the series did have a great way of teaching roughly how civilizations develop. However, for teaching anything about how specific civilizations acted, it wasn't so good. Seriously, I could see the Kaiser being a bit pushy and the like. But Gandhi was always such a hard-ass in those games.
Reply

Posted: Apr 3rd 2006 3:26PM s1ckn1c said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
My social studies class in High School used to have us play CIVI for the last half/hour of class in the last quarter. We had to write a report on it and everything. It was pretty cool, and people paid more attention because it was a game too.
Maybe with this day in age with problems like ADD, videogames could really be used to reach kids and have education actually be interesting and fun...
Reply

Posted: Apr 3rd 2006 3:26PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Let's forget about the fact you can start your civilization in 4000 BC with Roosevelt as your leader.
Reply

Posted: Apr 3rd 2006 5:14PM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
My middle school had the "Downingtown Educational Enrichment Program" for kids with IQs over 140. The class basically gave students free reign to pursue whatever interests them, as long as they could validate it's educational value. I spent a full period every day for about half a year playing Civilization III.
Reply
Sorry, you must be logged in to leave a comment.

Featured Stories

Rhythm Heaven Fever review: Crazy into you

Posted on Feb 9th 2012 12:00PM

Remedy not done with Alan Wake

Posted on Feb 9th 2012 10:30AM

Engadget

TUAW

Massively

WoW