Features
Get Started Quickly and Easily:
A Tutorial scenario guides your students through learning the interface.
Effortless Game Navigation:
Player’s console provides one-click access to all critical information and actions. Play on the 3D world map with beautifully detailed city, military, and other models.
Many Ways to Integrate into Your Class
Set up an in-class multiplayer game with teams of 2-3 students playing each Nation. Can be a focused unit, or played periodically over the semester. Students can also play single-player games as homework or preparation. Teacher-support materials provide detailed guidance for each mode of use.
Historic Scenarios:
Start your students at a crucial historic moment, focus on a specific event, or play the whole war. Scenarios cover the fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Europe, the Sudeten crisis and more, and each is based on detailed research.
Engage Students in a Rich WWII World:
MAKING HISTORY® includes over 80 nations and 800+ regions. Each nation is given detailed characteristics built on extensive research, including economic and military strengths, diplomatic relations, ideology, and technical advancement. Each region features terrain, infrastructure, resource production and more.
Students Play as Nations:
They devise strategies based on their nation’s historic strengths and weaknesses– and those of other nations. They can play as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USSR, the United States, or China.
Sophisticated World Economy:
Economic system models the connections between world power and economic strength. Players control trade, aid, industrial development, infrastructure investments, and a deep field of research.
Students Become Diplomats
As students make and break alliances, declare war and propose peace, each action affects their relations with other nations, and those nations’ willingness to ally with the students’ nation. If they lack strong allies, they may find other nations are more are more likely to be aggressive.
Thought-provoking Military Options:
Take many approaches to engagements from massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and geography all affect your battle plan Use unique unit abilities to blitzkrieg with armor, fight attrition battles with hordes of infantry, decimate enemy industry with strategic bombers, and bomb fleets from a distance with a carrier task force. Use Research to unlock more advanced military units. Every unit features a detailed 3D model.
Single and Multiplayer Turn-Based Gameplay:
Innovative simultaneous-turn-based play keeps you in control with no waiting. Play with up to eight countries in multiplayer mode, using in-game chat to devise joint strategies and secret pacts.
Endlessly Replayable:
Each scenario presents a different historic challenge Each nation students play presents unique challenges. Then the game evolves from their economic and military choices, the alliances they make, and the actions and reactions of other nations.
Multiple Models of Victory
Set players on the pursuit of victory for their Nation, their Alliance, or their Ideology. (Democracy, Communism, Fascism, or Authoritarianism.) Each victory model brings out different challenges and themes.
Game Reports support class discussion, papers, and more.
Save complete reports of a game session to analyze strategies and results. Drive discussion, support points of view in papers, share on the web.
Full set of Teacher Support materials
Complete materials make it straightforward to learn and use Making History, even if you’re not a game player. Materials include teachers guide, handouts, technical guide to installation, and more.
Customization:
Use included Scenario Editor to modify scenarios or create your own.
