ARCHERY: VIRTUAL WORLDS
Archery has a well-established place in popular entertainment, and the prevalence of it in movies and TV over the past decade or so has long been noted. But there is another medium in which the sport has a big presence, and which now – whether you like it or not – has a permanent place in our culture: video games.
Quite a few games revolve around medieval scenarios or fantasy worlds inspired by the Middle Ages and antiquity. Accordingly, the presence of bows and crossbows is hardly surprising. Archers appear as combat units in quite a few strategy games; the widespread genre of role-playing games always offers the possibility of using the bow as a ranged weapon or even playing a ‘class’ of character who specialises in using the bow to knock out virtual opponents.
But archery occasionally defines entire game genres and
