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Games with a Mediterranean-flavored setting?

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The people are dark of hair and eye.
The men's names end with an 'o'.
The women are lovely, but be careful of their fathers.
The climate: sub-tropical. Hot, but not excessively so.
The terrain: A few trees, shrubs, rocks, and plenty of ocean.
The culture is strong in arts and philosophy, weak on actually getting shit done.
The music features lots of strumming.
Wine and cheese are more popular than beer and pork.
The warriors seem to like plumes, stripes, rapiers and halberds.
There are plenty of nobles, patricians and even dukes, but you probably won't meet any kings.

I recently played Blackguards and I enjoyed this aspect of it very much. What other games have a Mediterranean-flavored setting?

Off the top of my head, I can think of Baldur's Gate 2, although other than some character names, art and the music in Waukeen's Promenade, BioWare didn't try very hard to emphasize it.

(Do note that this is not the same thing as an Arabian Nights-type setting. The culture might be Arab or Muslim-flavored, but it's more Ottoman or Al-Andalus than Arabian or Persian.)
 
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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 :D(not Mediterranean but similar)
Colin McRae Rally 2 & 4 :D (Greece and Spain tracks, that is)
 

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I guess Quest for Glory V is a pretty obvious one, although that goes in more of a Bronze Age direction.
 
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Heh, all these weird suggestions and nobody mentioned Assassin's Creed 2 and its spinoffs.
 

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The climate: sub-tropical. Hot, but not excessively so.
You could just call it by its name, Mediterranean climate. Yes, that's a subtype of sub-tropical climate, but I doubt any kind of sub-tropical climate will do. Unless you think that humid swamplands are an equally fitting environment for a Mediterranean setting.
 

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Titan Quest - Haven't completed this one, haven't even got that far into it but it is set in Ancient Greece, so... Mediterranean.

Age of Mythology - The Greek and Egyptian sections, and the expansion are all set in and around the Mediterranean

Risen - It is a fictional world, but one very much based on the Mediterranean climate and it seems everyone has vaguely Spanish names and tanned skin

Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - The former is set in the Crusader states, and the latter two are set in Italy
 

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Yeah, I'm really thinking more about a Medieval/Renaissance type thing here, not the ancient Mediterranean. I thought that was obvious from my description but I guess I should have said it explicitly.

The climate: sub-tropical. Hot, but not excessively so.
You could just call it by its name, Mediterranean climate. Yes, that's a subtype of sub-tropical climate, but I doubt any kind of sub-tropical climate will do. Unless you think that humid swamplands are an equally fitting environment for a Mediterranean setting.

I did add 'terrain' afterwards. :M
 
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Oblivion... wait Morrowind had it in Hlaluu/Imperial controlled lands; Balmora looks like Spanish colonial style Pueblo for example; and it has not Romans and not Joos too.
 
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Yeah, I'm really thinking more about a Medieval/Renaissance type thing here, not the ancient Mediterranean. I thought that was obvious from my description but I guess I should have said it explicitly.
Too bad, I was going to suggest Impressions Games' Caesar trilogy, Pharaoh and Zeus.

You can play as the Byzantines in AoE2 and Medieval: Total War and crush your enemies with Cataphracts.
 
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