We’re all for any excuse to send the Nazis to invade Manhattan. Figuratively, we mean, since no one expects to say that in a lifetime. Or this: Killing Winston Churchill is just what we needed to make Nazis worth killing again. Hardly a hero's death, the great statesman kisses the grill of a taxi cab in 1931, dies, and spins an alternate history where the Third Reich attacks the Big Apple in 1953. Awesome concept, no?
Oct 23, 2007
We've killed a lot of Nazis over the years. As far as common videogame villains go, they rank right up there with terrorists and aliens in terms of having a hard-on for destroying all of humanity and everything good. But it seems like game developers are starting to shy away from adding more World War II titles to the pile. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty works some alternate history into its premise to throw more Swastika sporting soldiers at you in a fresh setting.
It all starts
At first, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty might look like yet another WWII game to add to the overcrowded pile, but this time the shoe is on the other foot. America is the one on the receiving end of D-Day, with the Nazis invading New York. And the reason for this twist is that instead of living to make his famous speech about fighting them on the beaches, Britains Prime Minister Winston Churchill was run over by a taxi… really?
To stop his homeland going the same way under the wheels of
Fall of Liberty? Sounds criminally like Resistance: Fall of Man to us, and the “tributes” dont stop there. Codemasters FPS features a similar “alternate history” WWII setting, plus gamings favorite baddies, the Nazis, and modernized weapons (like Resistance, again) as they storm into and take over New York (Freedom Fighters?), marching to world domination. In their way stand a handful of rebels (Freedom Fighters? Hello?) and you, Danny
Where would we be without alternate histories, eh? We'd be stuck fighting the same old conflicts, on the same old battlefields, against the same old enemies. But by upending the history books the possibilities become as limitless as time itself. The latest game to adopt a wonkified view of the past is PS3, 360 and PC first-person shooter, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.
It's 1952, but Britain's Jerry smashing bulldog, Sir Winston Churchill, is long dead (ungraciously run over by a New York
