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Thanks for posting. It’s ietirnsteng to think how history has been used in games, particularly war games.Games often pervert and make abstract real-world things. Death in Doom is not the death we know and feel in life, and though this kind of abstraction and distance exists in WWII games like Call of Duty, WWII is a bit of a special case.Pac-Man makes a mechanic of over-eating as Medal of Honor does of killing, but MoH is also working within a well-established mythology: the killing has already been made righteous and bloodless.WWII has been popularized, polished and sold over and over since it happened (even during). Games are really just using WWII myths (Normandy is a vignette, not a place, not a battle), as have movies and radio shows since 1940. Just as sports video games try to recreate the experience of the sports as seen on TV and not the experience of actually playing them (Marc LeBlanc’s observation), I think WWII games are using popular myth, not attempting to recreate or introduce the war itself. This is why the games are (and aim to be) cinematic: they borrow from movies, not accounts or history.So, yeah, I wouldn’t say our generation is out of touch so much as it is familiar with and eager to perpetuate WWII as it has been told in movies and schools.(As a side note, Clint Hocking has argued that WWII games are popular to know who is right, who is wrong, and to save the world. A good presentation, though only tangentially related to what I wrote above.)I would love to see a video-game adaptation of something like With the Old Breed, some real-life survival horror that took its material seriously, instead of another storm-the-beach explosion-fest. Not sure if that’d make for a good game, but it would likely be one worth discussing.