Campfire Games has announced the launch of their Kickstarter for American Civil War FPS game, War of Rights. War of Rights is a multiplayer game set around the tumultuous period of the American Civil War, during the Maryland Campaign of September 1862, that is powered by Crytek’s CRYENGINE.
According to the press release, Campfire Games aims to present the gruesome and glorious elements of the period, while maintaining the highest level of historical accuracy and realism as possible.
Players will be able to take on the multiple battlefields of the campaign, from the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, where the Siege of Harper’s Ferry took place, to the ridgelines of South Mountain, to the meandering waters of Antietam Creek at the Battle of Antietam.
Additionally, players will also be able to choose from a list of regiments that fought in each battle, as well as what rank to fight as, whether they want to slog it out as a lowly private, or orchestrate the carnage and mayhem as a Major General.
Emil Alexander Hansen, co-founder and technical artist at Campfire Games, said:
“With War of Rights having now been in development for over three years, we felt it was the right time to finally get the game to Kickstarter to secure the required funds. War of Rights is something very special to us, we’re incredibly passionate for historical accuracy and so with a successful crowdfunding campaign, we’ll be able to dedicate the time and attention the game needs to be and with the power of CRYENGINE, it’ll allow us to deliver something that’s truly authentic.”
Each map contains a period reconstruction of the buildings, farms, forests, roads and rocks that existed so that players can fight through the streets of Harper’s Ferry, in the wooded heights of Fox’s Gap at South Mountain, or in the wheat fields and Bloody Lanes of Antietam with great accuracy.
Players can also feel the whiz of each deadly shot and shell fly by their bodies, or hitting their comrades, or themselves, as they scream in a bloody hail from their wounds.
Enjoy!
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This will most likely only be popular in north America because the rest of the world doesn’t really care about U.S “history”. I could be wrong but i am having a hard time imagining a Russian or Chinese or even some Europeans playing anything related to U.S history.
It’ll be popular because people get to shoot at things.
It’s a game, not a history book or lesson. It all depends on how good and how fun it is.
Call of Duty is a thing.
As an American, i can understand your point of view, but you should be concerned with American History, just as Americans should be concerned with World History. History is like one big lesson learning book.
War of rights… to own slaves. Revisionist history can’t get rid of all the declarations and letters and newspapers from that time implicitly and overtly referencing slavery as the only issue at hand, the only reason to go to war. What a bunch of tools.
& today we still have people who think Americans went to Afghanistan because they actually found Nuclear Weapons in Hussein’s control.
Revisionist History won’t be able to get rid of all the Bush Propaganda from 2002 either, there’ll be plenty of declarations, letters & newspapers implicitly stating that they had Nuclear Weapons, even after the UN failed to find any, & there will still be idiots teaching, learning & believing that the Afghan War was a legal conflict over Illegal Nuclear Weapons.
Your point being what, exactly?
War of Rights isn’t exactly a misnomer anyway, there’s actual factors to keep in mind; The NORTH wanted to abolish Slavery, the SOUTH was dependent on it for cheap labour, much like America is now dependent on cheap Chinese Labour. The South had Industry, & was basically pulling most of the weight in the country at the time, while the North was not. The South got tired of kowtowing to Washington, & the Slavery Abolition Movement was the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”
So yes, while it WAS a War that started & was by-&-large centred around the issue of Slavery, the issue of Slavery itself was merely one of many issues that collectively added up to a giant *Raises Middle Finger at Washington, & claims the Right to secede from the Union, which Washington claims they do not have, hence making their split illegal, hence Civil War.*