![]() ![]() In Red Alert, Hitler never rose to power, thus allowing Soviet Russia to expand across Europe and ignite an alternate version of World War II.Īll of which makes Western Front, a real-time strategy game about a very real and very bloody conflict, a bit of a deviation for Petroglyph. Even the studio’s most recent release, the excellent Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, centered on parallel universes. Petroglyph Games, a developer formed from the remnants of Westwood Studios in 2003, made its mark in the strategy space with Star Wars: Empire at War, 8-Bit Armies, and Conan: Unconquered - games that were either overtly fictitious, or stylized to the point of being cartoons. ![]() The vast majority, Sheftall said, “try to tell the story of an individual, when the real story of World War I is really about the mass.” If Battlefield 1, Verdun, and Valiant Hearts were stories about the individual, the upcoming The Great War: Western Front is the latter: a game about the determined yet deteriorating mass of the war to end all wars. ![]() Speaking to the Los Angeles Times in 2019, Mark Sheftall, a history professor at Bucknell University, highlighted a trend in stories about the Great War. ![]()
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