
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! is a real-time tactical computer game created by Sid Meier, co-founder of Firaxis Games, and published by Electronic Arts in 1997. In 1998, Gettysburg received the Origins Award for Best Strategy Computer Game of 1997. It was succeeded in 1998 by Sid Meier's Antietam!. In the game, players can take command of either Confederate or Union forces during the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. The game offers the option to play individual scenarios or a series of connected scenarios, either following historical events or imagining alternate outcomes. The game engine was later utilized for the Napoleonic title Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle, and a modified version was used for Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory, both developed by BreakAway Games.