Sniper Elite is a good one. I’ve only played the sequels, those took place elsewhere (i.e. fourth was in Italy). And while the gameplay is pretty enjoyable and it’s great to just pop Nazis and watch them run around like headless chickens, the plot is quite liberal, as you’ve pointed out.
The collaboration between the protagonist (and his masters in OSS) and the Mafia is shown to be an unfortunate, but necessary tactic - ignoring the anti-communist nature of it.
Plenty of “great man theory” all around - i.e. there’s a DLC mission where you need to infiltrate some secret facility and it turns out Hitler (or more likely his body double) is visiting. The protag goes “Dang, I can end the war in one swift action!”. Yeah.
Plus the game goes hard to "humanise " the Nazis. When you search the killed soldiers, you can find “letters home”. Some are indeed the kind you’d expect from the Nazis, ala “Haha we killed like twenty partisans today, cool stuff”. Others are “Me so sad dis war suk I want home boohoo” types.
Sniper Elite is a good one. I’ve only played the sequels, those took place elsewhere (i.e. fourth was in Italy). And while the gameplay is pretty enjoyable and it’s great to just pop Nazis and watch them run around like headless chickens, the plot is quite liberal, as you’ve pointed out.
The collaboration between the protagonist (and his masters in OSS) and the Mafia is shown to be an unfortunate, but necessary tactic - ignoring the anti-communist nature of it.
Plenty of “great man theory” all around - i.e. there’s a DLC mission where you need to infiltrate some secret facility and it turns out Hitler (or more likely his body double) is visiting. The protag goes “Dang, I can end the war in one swift action!”. Yeah.
Plus the game goes hard to "humanise " the Nazis. When you search the killed soldiers, you can find “letters home”. Some are indeed the kind you’d expect from the Nazis, ala “Haha we killed like twenty partisans today, cool stuff”. Others are “Me so sad dis war suk I want home boohoo” types.
So yeah, excellent choice, comrade