Screenshot from the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. As far as I read it wasn’t the first D-Day game, but I remember it was very spectacular in my childhood.
Screenshot from the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. As far as I read it wasn’t the first D-Day game, but I remember it was very spectacular in my childhood.
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Totally agree, games like this really do hit differently when they show you what those beaches actually looked like that day
Adding Medal of Honor Frontline to this as I feel like most people’s video game exposure to D-Day would have begun with that game.
I wish there were more modern examples as Call of Duty WWII’s more hollywood style production and character focus really didn’t do the assault any justice! Having said that though Easy Red II is a recent indie title that probably represents the D-Day landings better than any game i’ve ever played.
Medal of Honor and old Call of Duty were so good in bringing that atmosphere of World War 2. Makes me miss all the old WW2 shooters. It got to a point where they were oversaturated, but I’d take them back in a second over the current state of CoD and Battlefield where nothing is taken seriously.
Would absolutely love another game like CoD: World at War again.
days when the biggest worry was the final boss fight, not final taxes. Take me back!
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Still one of the greatest video game levels ever
i love learning about the history
That’s definitely something cool! It’s pretty hard to find games like that, though. Do you have any other titles in mind?
I’m thinking of games like *Assassin’s Creed* or *Civilization*.
I actually created an indie game about daily life in ancient Rome, with some educational content built in. I’m a big believer that learning through play is incredibly powerful.
Games bring immersion and emotion and that really helps the brain retain information.
School should be more aware of learn through gaming imo.
Read a book instead
I wonder what this game taught you that a school didn’t
Fun fact – the original MoH games were created by a crew that later defected and set up the studio Infinity Ward out of protest thinking they could make a better wartime game. That game was Call of Duty.
This game came out when i was in high school at the same time that my history class was covering WW2. We were all assigned an end of the term essay to do about WW2. The essay requirements were pretty open ended so we had to pick a topic related to WW2 and write some 3 page paper on it. I was always particularly bad at this sort of assignment because i could never come up with a topic i was willing to devote the time to and this assignment was no different.
I’m thinking about going home to play it in class one day and I have an epiphany. I ask my teacher if i can write it from a 1st person perspective of an allied soldier on D-Day, like it was written in a diary or something. My teacher said I could, I then procrastinate writing it till the night before it was due. Didn’t do any other research other than playing Allied Assault.
I bust out this half-assed, overly descriptive three pages about the D-Day level in Allied Assault in like 45 minutes at 2am and hand it in the next day. I didn’t even bother looking up where the allied forces went after Normandy because i was so lazy. Couldn’t even think of a way to end it so i had the soldier i was portraying get blown up and wake up in a medical tent.
Then about 3 days later i get held after class and my parents are there. The teacher then proceeds to accuse me of plagiarism. I start laughing because i know how little effort i put into this thing and come clean about only playing a video game as research. I explain that that’s why our protagonist wakes up in a medical tent.
I ended up getting an A+ on the essay, and my parents took away my computer for a week. Good times.