****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
We've enjoyed and played all of the games in the series. This package is a good value for the money. The extras are of high quality and as described and add some value to the product, enhance the playing experience, are educational, and will help round out the gamer experience for those who can't get enough. Gameplay so far is different but we are adapting to the slight changes and the storyline is interesting.My only concern, as with all of these games, is playing loose with real history and making light of serious people, events, and places in an irreverent, sometimes disrespectful way. They've done this to other cultures and now the US gets the treatment; I don't think THAT element will be popular and please be around to tell your kids the founding fathers were not all lazy drunks and Americans were not the ignorant caricatures you see in the game. The multicultural disclaimer that displays as the game loads does not cover or excuse this; there are things that are absolute truths in this world, not everything is subjective, and all cultures are NOT equal - principles familiar to all Americans - but NOT the designers of these games.This is a normal European perspective of us few Americans are aware of - perhaps this game will help enlighten our culture more about how the rest of the world sees us - but you really shouldn't screw with our history and disparage historical figures to suit a revisionist agenda. It's a game: even the pieces they 'take' from real history didn't always happen that way. It may sound egotistical and be hard for other cultures to agree, but the US has evolved and was founded on a unique set of principles, not seen in the world before or since - and that is what has made us great as a nation and as a people. Folks from the outside looking in don't get that, and don't understand the values we've fought and died for. The minutiae is done well;the broad strokes are a joke - ignore those if you know better, correct them to young gamers who don't - because it is important stuff, whether someone from another part of the world thinks so or not.
