That said, I think what makes this game great is that Sid Meier managed to not overly-simplify it. Players make decisions such as which economy best suits their landscape, how to balance industrial progress with environmental preservation, and the cost/benefit of engaging in wars with other nations.Įverything is necessarily dumbed down from real life, and the oversimplification of the ramifications of the decisions you make is the best counter-argument to the ‘Is this game educational?’ question. After all, this is a game that requires you to make macroscopic societal decisions that affect the makeup of your nation.
However, it does prompt players to think intellectually in a way that puts it in a different category from games like League of Legends or Call of Duty. Civilization is probably not a game that's going to help students pass their next history/social science test. “I think it comes down to how we define ‘educational’ in the gaming context. He is an English teacher at Huntington Beach High School in California, a former Senior Director at Kaplan, and most importantly a hardcore Civilization player who, as I can attest to as his college roommate, spent many long nights engaged in fierce battles for continental conquest. To get a better perspective, I asked Casey Harelson. But is the game educational? If so, what does one “learn” by playing it? This might seem like a lot, but this barely scratches the surface of the depth the game has to offer. I love Civilization as much as the next guy and have invested approximately 50 to 60 hours into various incarnations of the game (mostly Civ III and Civ IV). Revel in the glory of Civilization's Grammy winning theme song, Baba Yetu. Whenever I would speak to my colleagues about educational games, they would invariably reference one game as a shining paragon of excellence: Civilization. Before joining EdSurge, I worked for four years as a commercial game designer.
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