It's Educational!

ABOUT THE GAME:

Making History: The Calm & The Storm is a World War II grand strategy computer game released in March 2007 by developer Muzzy Lane. Similar in ways to the popular board games Axis and Allies and Risk, Making History is turn-based with basic industrial, economic, resource, research and diplomatic management included, with inspiration possibly drawn from the Civilization PC game series.

As of patch 2.03 players are able to play as any nation that had international recognition from 1936-1945, although players are encouraged to select from one of the more powerful entities of the era, namely Nationalist China, France, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, The United Kingdom, The United States or the USSR.

The game has been successfully marketed by its developer as an educational tool, with the game described in a December 2007 Newsweek article as "already part of the World War II curriculum in more than 150 schools"


GAMEPLAY:

In Making History players control the nation of their choice through a period of world war II and the years preceding it, as defined by the scenario selected. Included with the game are scenarios which start in 1936, 1939, 1941 or 1944, each crafted to reflect the historical situation at that time, while players may design their own scenarios using the either included scenario editor or SQL programming.


MULTIPLAYER:

The game supports up to 8 players playing multiplayer over TCP/IP internet connections, however offers no formal matchmaking / game lobby systems. Players must arrange multiplayer games privately and manually connect. The multiplayer game is also turn based, with players making their orders simultaneously and each player's orders being processed at the end of each turn as is normal in a single player game.