This opened up a whole new path for the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series to explore. This has the player playing from a first person viewpoint, so the player only sees the hands and weapons that they are using. This was a very loosely based game on World War II, where an American GI goes into a Nazi castle trying to eliminate the Nazis.

The first person shooter was developed via World War II with the start of the Wolfenstein series. This cultural shift to be pro-American is huge and has made the war in the European theater more acceptable. Tanine also goes into how the video game shapes the cultural viewpoint on the war more so than the movies due to how interactive the games have become. The video games and movies seem to glorify World War II.

Tanine explained how both facets of entertainment seemed to make the war seem like the “last good war” (Tanine, 183). As Allison Tanine writes about the way the video game trend seemed to follow the movie trend in her article “The World War II Video Game, Adaptation, and Postmodern History”. This goes for the World War II phase as well. For example, the zombie craze has probably almost come to an end of a phase lately, but during this phase game developers and movie/tv producers have put out numerous games, movies, tv shows, etc. In the world of video games, the genre of games often tends to go in phases just like movies. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed May 16, 2014). “The World war II Video Game, Adaptation, and Postmodern History.” Literature Film Quarterly 38, no.

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