Millennials' Video Games History Exam

Many young people - and not so young - spend more hours at the controls of a console than with a book in their hands.

But not everything is wasted time or mere entertainment.

Modern video games have reached such a level of development that they are also an informative source that is not as deficient as it might seem at first glance.

So much so that the new documentary production of the

channel

in Spain resorts precisely as a narrative element to the universe of video games, a sector that in Spain has a community of

, according to data from the Spanish Association of Videogames.

Throughout six chapters,

immerses itself in World War II, the Roman Empire or the Middle Ages thanks to the analysis that some thirty experts from different disciplines make of

including historical bestsellers such as

,

,

;

or the long-awaited

that has not yet hit the market.

Gamer Sapiens

premieres in History -channel available on the main payment platforms- next

at 10:00 p.m. with the broadcast of the first two chapters:

and

.

The next two Tuesdays, at the same time, the other four episodes of the series will be broadcast, also in double broadcast:

and

(on December 8);

and

and

(December 15).

'Rome Total War'.

Historians, military personnel, aviation pilots, master gunsmiths, geographers, anthropologists, engineers or fencing instructors analyze from the areas in which they are experts which aspects that appear in video games with a historical setting are true to reality and which are

.

For example,

teaches that the armor with which medieval knights are usually represented has little to do with reality.

On the other hand, the classic

is not only faithful but also has an explanation: dirt could make any cut deadly and the spotless clothing helped prevent potential sources of infection.

Some war game developers even consult with veteran associations for approval before releasing a new title.

"Players are becoming more and more adults and they demand that the video game be more credible and much better documented," says

, editor-in-chief of

magazine

.

As revealed, during the development of a game about World War II, the sound of the comb jump of an

when the ammunition runs out

was studied in the open field

to replicate it exactly.

"The series combines the narrative quality of a documentary on the Historia channel with the interactivity factor of a video game," underlines

, vice president of programming for The History Channel Iberia, who highlights that this project offers a "completely unprecedented approach on television. ».

"The video game today is the most powerful source of culture in intensity that exists," says

, designer of the successful

series of games

, carried out by the Spanish company

.

If film and television have already contributed to historical dissemination in previous generations, modern video games add value to learning first-person immersion.

A kid who has been moving between screens in

will have quite internalized what the key battles that decided World War II are, just as the

fan will

know the organization and hierarchy of the Roman Army by heart.

"One of the important things that the video game allows and that is not common to other informative tools is to be able to live the story interactively," says

, producer of

.

'The Last of Us'.

David Martínez Robles emphasizes this aspect: "One enjoys and learns much more when he is the protagonist of the events that are seen in video games".

And he adds: "It is educational not only because of what the video game itself narrates, but also because it is capable of

to investigate the historical field or the characters that appear in their favorite games."

But the didactic capacity of modern video games goes far beyond the lessons for

high school graduates

.

In a metahistoric twist, consoles and computers

.

Thus, some of the professional simulators that the Armies of many countries use to train their pilots or drivers of armored cars are developed from technologies created by the video game industry, such as

.

The

universe

has also served as a field for sociological experiments.

A study by New York University determined that the optimal group in clans to play

is

.

In the Neolithic, tribes were organized in the same way, according to an anthropologist in Gamer Sapiens.

"In prehistoric times the human being already found the pattern to socialize and nowadays in video game championships those patterns are replicated without looking for it", Daniel Ventura emphasizes.

The story is cyclical: from Homo Sapiens to

.

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