These screenshots showed massive, sprawling cities from multiple eras of technology, as well as an overview map with cities shown as territories each with their own respective attributes and garrisoned units. While the Ara: History Untold announcement trailer does not include any gameplay, several pre-alpha screenshots were shared on the game's new website.

That's an alluring concept for a turn-based grand strategy game, though without gameplay it's difficult to make any assumptions. Instead, it'll allow players to create their own history, creating their own version of the past.

It's clear that Ara: History Untold won't be respecting history exactly like Age of Empires and Civilization might. RELATED: Big Xbox Games Are Apparently Skipping Sunday's Showcase

For example, the Great Pyramids of Egypt and the Sphinx were shown in the snow, along a river, and Benjamin Franklin's notable kite-flying was shown overtop Stonehenge. Only these glimpses weren't entirely accurate. The cinematic trailer for Ara: History Untold featured a narrator speaking over glimpses of interesting historical figures, locations, and moments. If those watching the announcement trailer for Ara: History Untold confused it for the reveal of a new Civilization game, they weren't alone. Instead of a real-time strategy game, Ara: History Untold will instead be a turn-based grand strategy release. As part of the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Xbox unveiled a new game named Ara: History Untold. The revival of the real-time strategy game series has apparently awoken other interests within Xbox Game Studios in other PC-focused genres, too. Over the past several years Xbox has gone to great effort to bring back one of its most popular PC game franchises, Age of Empires.

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