Guess what? 8v8 control point multiplayer doesn’t really translate the chaos. If you’re like me you have very fond memories of the tremendous un-epicness of Battlefield: 1942’s Normandy map. If Rare had gotten serious, and decided to make an actual honest-to-god war game, we might be talking about Conker as one of the most seminal moments in the art of videogames. Yes, it’s a near shot-for-shot recreation of Saving Private Ryan, and yes it’s played for laughs, but you still see a poor chipmunk struggle for air beneath the waves before the rat-tat-tat of the pillboxes leave the water dark red. While early Calls of Duty and Medals of Honor stuck to the safe, rated-T-for-teen massacre of goreless bodies getting tossed pre-ragdoll across the screen, the ever-dangerous Conker made sure that the blood of their woodland soldiers splattered across the camera. The most realistic portrayal of D-Day in a videogame was Conker’s Bad Fur Day.
Here are my choices for the best Normandy scenes in the history of gaming. However we should not forget those sequences-they’re responsible for igniting the WWII craze and videogames grew up in a lot of ways once they made it to D-Day. We’ve all stormed that beach so many times over the last 10 years that it’s made one of the most singular images in history surprisingly mundane. The invasion of Normandy was the central showpiece of any World War II game worth its salt. I’m not in mourning or anything, but there was something unambiguously fun about shooting Nazis. We were so ready for them to leave our lives when they did, and now I’m honestly a little bit sad that they’re gone. The setting propped up multi-million dollar franchises ( Call of Duty, Medal of Honor), adored cult favorites ( Brothers in Arms) and abysmal, industry-destroying shuffleware ( Hour of Victory). It’s weird to think that only 10 years ago the World War II first-person shooter was the most played-out genre in all of gaming.
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