For many of us, video games offer an escape from real life and enjoy the amazingly crafted fictional stories that are in store for us. Sometimes, the most compelling stories are not created by imagination but are inspired by real-life events.
Developers often focus on real-life historical events and take their spin on them to produce video games that offer an unmatched experience to learn about things that happened. Due to the wide variety of events that video games can cover, there is a piece of history to be known to every one of us.
Rockstar Games released L.A. Noire back in 2011 as a detective action-adventure game, which offered unique mystery-solving gameplay that required observation skills and gunfights.
Players take on the role of Detective Cole Phelps and solve cases to rise among the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The game accurately depicts open-world visuals based in Los Angeles in 1947.
Players have to interrogate witnesses and suspects, search for clues at the crime scene and follow up on leads. The game offers several criminal cases based on real-life events, with the most notable being the Black Dahlia Murder, in which players get to deduce and crack the mystery of the famous murder.
Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed III back in 2012 as the fifth major installment of its flagship Assassin’s Creed series. The series has always focused on major real-life historical events and even featured iconic historical characters like Pope Alexander VI and Leonardo da Vinci.
Assassin’s Creed III took place during the time of the American Revolution and depicts many important events in America’s history. The game follows Connor and Desmond Miles as they participate in major historical events like the
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