Napoleon is back, baby. This time, in video game form, resurrected for a sixth time, he’s reappearing in Civilization 7 as an ambitious, confident leader who’s ready to conquer the world, even if he makes loads of enemies along the way. In a video trailer, Napoleon speaks in Corsican-accented French, translated by Inverse, “To do everything we’re capable of is to be a man. To accomplish everything we’d like to do, is to be a god.” Since the first game in 1991, Napoleon has been sprinkled throughout the series, often appearing as the leader of France, or as a major general that’s more of a non-playable character. Still, developer Firaxis took care not to oversaturate its games with Napoleon, sometimes switching in Catherine de Medici or Joan of Arc instead. Even though Civ 7 largely keeps much of the game play the same as the previous renditions, there are a few key differences and even Napoleon himself is not exactly the same. At San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference, Inverse recently got an inside look at how Napoleon was recreated this time around, with the help of eager historians, some clever motion-capture, and consulting his famous collection of letters. |
