Sledgehammer’s tribute to that fateful day plays it pretty straight, and for a new generation of gamers who didn’t play those old classics or grow up with that movie seared into their imaginations, this is an incredible experience. This scene is also well-trodden in cinema thanks to Saving Private Ryan, in particular, which originally inspired this genre of game. Sledgehammer’s decision to begin with June 6, 1944, when the Allies invaded France to begin retaking continental Europe, was simultaneously the only sensible choice and also a very brave one, because anything the devs concocted would inevitably be held up not just against the classic Normandy landings of the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty games nearly 20 years ago, but our nostalgia for them as well. Let’s take a look at some of the best moments in the COD WWII campaign.

But if you’re enjoying it as much as we are, then you won’t mind us gushing about a few of our favorite moments from the first handful of missions. It’s not the longest single-player game ever, clocking in at 6-7 hours depending on how tough you want to make it for yourself, but we imagine that many of you won’t have finished it yet anyway, so we won’t go into anything that happens after the first few hours. The signs are good for multiplayer and Nazi Zombies, but what about the campaign? But while the circumstances set the developers up for an easy score, they still had to dunk the ball pretty spectacularly if COD WWII was going to live up to expectations and give Call of Duty a new lease on life. Sledgehammer Games took the series back to the theater of war where it made its name just at the point fans realized that was what they really wanted.

Radios/Film Reels/T.V.Call of Duty: World War II was always destined to be swept to commercial success by goodwill alone.

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