Historical correct games?

team fortress 2

Custer's Revenge

Saints Row. I am pretty sure that most gangsters run around with giant, purple.."appliances" and that most pimps are auto-tuned. And the Prof. Genki show? It must exist somewhere in Japan. With or without gangsters and fire and death.

Burnout Paradise.

Antichamber was a pretty accurate historical portrayal of few of my weekends

Euro Track Simulation 2, very educational

Europa Universalis 2: grand strategy game whee you lead a country in 1453-1793 period (iirc) and you have a ton of historical events and such.

Edit: this comes under Paradox games, which somebody already mentioned. Older generation games are more about historical events (EU2, Victoria 1, HOI2), while the current gen is more like a historical sandbox.

Its not really "historical accurate" but Age of Mythology campaing have some greek/egiptian/Norwegian mythos and when you read the descrpcion of every unit they tell you a lot of mythos aswell. You learn a lot and the campaing its really well made and enjoyable like warcraft III and starcarft.

Copypasta from its Steam page, free to play indie game called The Cat and the Coup:

The Cat and the Coup is a documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off of shelves, scattering his papers, jumping on his lap and scratching him.

Panzer General II

Metal Gear Solid 3

red faction

Mount and blade actually has an accurate enough portrayal of medieval warfare, ie small skirmishes that where chaotic and unorganized.

Silent Hunter III perhaps.

And how far back do you want to go. I learned more playing Silent Service and Their Finest Hour than I did reading about WW2.

Katamari Damacy, and the whole series really! (Yes I'm joking)

• Dynasty Warriors - not so much, too much Shu propaganda
• Samurai Warriors - eh...
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms - sure why not

What about Grand Theft Auto? They're pretty much historically correct, right? All cities are based on actual cities, where they show the life of a thug, although there aren't any actual historical events in the games if that's what you meant..

EU3 to an extent

Superman 64

Sengoku Basara. It's correct historically. Same goes for anime based on it.

Age of Empires 2 was pretty accurate. And you learned about history in the progress!

the elder scrolls

Haven't actually tried it yet, but Making History: The Calm and the Storm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufil3hF22-w

Completely accurate? No such beast.

There are plenty of games which provide a fairly historically accurate and plausible scenario in which you can fool around. The Silent Hunter games, old Paradox games, stuff like that.

The History Channel had a few games based around individual battles in the ACW that were extremely well made with proper army command structure and such. Very, very impressive.

All of the Total War games contain historically accurate information, although the Campaign itself tends to not be historically accurate.