Quadras can have a small break in the eye against the impressive “Age of Empires” poster that supervises the entrance to the new Louvre exhibition. The museum has established an association with the famous strategy games franchise for the promotion of its exhibition “Mamlouks”.
Mamlouks, a castle of slaves released from the Caucasus, reigned for more than 250 years in Egypt and Syria, between 1250 and 1517. They also entered the legend when they were integrated into the imperial guard of Naopléon.
For players, it is finally a famous cavalry unit ofAge of Empires 2Game in which empires collide in historical wars.
False representations
Such a well anchored memory that the communication of the Louvre had the idea of playing in this nostalgia to promote exposure. An email was sent to Xbox last November to use a visual game.
And on the side of Xbox Game Studios, we welcomed this proposal with open arms. As a result, the game editor has created a tailored map dedicated to Mamlouks, with references to the exhibition of the museum.
General Baybars and Sultan Quuz are embodied in the heart of the battle of Aïn Djalout (1260), which opposed Mamlouk’s sultanate to the Mongolian empire. The letter has been available for all players since June 10.
And the Louvre has really involved. Because if the representation of the Mamluks when he left the game in 1999 it was fantasy, they had set up in camels while moving on horseback, the new version agrees with the historical reality, thanks to the many objects and clothes always possessed by the museums.
And it should be recognized that putting in your hands in this title, presented in 2019 by a “final edition”, is quite stimulating, even if the mission created for the occasion is quite short.
Xbox still claims 65 million players around the world for this real -time strategy game classic that continues to live, 25 years later, through the generations of players.
Source: BFM TV
