In the gaming world – as in almost every cultural medium – WW2 games have effectively become a whole genre of their own, with the war’s many different international conflicts and battles forming the backdrop for thousands of classic computer games over the years.įor us wargamers, of course, the second war is particularly familiar territory: aside from perhaps the ancient world, it is the single most fertile ground for strategy and war games and has spawned some of the hobby’s finest digital titles.
True to form, being as it is the war of the ‘greatest generation’, the allure and appeal of World War Two have been hyped beyond all reason.
