Campfire Games has been hard at work since its debut game, War of Rights, became available in December of 2018. The first-person multiplayer cooperative shooter takes great strides to recreate the American Civil War with steadfast historical accuracy, and now soldiers have the honor to face each other with cannons as well as rifles.
On July 14th, some 155 years after the Civil War took place, Campfire Games sent an update to over 500 companies and at least 36,000 soldiers who were itching to try munitions they had been hearing rumors about for the past year. Civil War era artillery rarely appears in video games at all, though players can get shot out of a cannon in Fortnite. This may be the first time a video game has ever recreated the lengthy process it takes to load and fire the unwieldy yet devastating weapon.
It's not just the accuracy of the in-game items and weapons that makes this game so eye-catching to historians and the historically curious. The game maps themselves, of which there are currently five, are real locations meticulously recreated to resemble the battlegrounds as closely as possible. Everything from the sights on the rifles to the ballistics of the bullets was recreated with stunning accuracy.
Perhaps most amazingly, the players themselves take pride in conducting themselves just like Civil War-era soldiers, and there are game mechanics built in to support that. Companies, what other games like World of Warcraft might refer to as "guilds,"Â can contain up to 100 enlisted soldiers who will fight on the same side in any given match. If a soldier dies in combat, the points their team would lose can be mitigated if they were in proper formation with their brothers in arms. That makes the commanders' jobs that much more vital to achieve victory over the enemy.
It is vitally important in times like this that the younger generations be made aware of the bloody past so that mistakes will not be repeated. Civil War movies and video games may be the way that future generations learn about the era. War of Rights has the gumption to stand alongside historically-inclined games like Total War, but how far they will go has yet to be seen.
War of Rights is available now for PC.
Source:Â War of Rights