Assume the roles of city planner, governor and military leader. Successful players will need planning skills, economic savvy and -- should those fail -- military might. You are tasked to grow a small village into a thriving community through trade with neighbors, while also expanding and defending its borders through more militaristic means.
Video games is such a diverse medium that it is somewhat easy to forget that differing opinions, however alien they may be to your own, are welcome for a critical debate. Recently, a forum user named Melaisis posted a rather interesting article titled “Games Are Not Art.” I won’t go into much detail here, but suffice to say, Melaisis gives the theory that due to the inaccessibility of certain games by the general public, games cannot, all things considered, be art in the sense... read more...