RTS, which typically use either actual wars or settings very similar to actual wars as their bases, have often returned to WWII as the many countries involved make for deep, varied skirmishes that can involve many sides and locales. FPS in particular have used the war as a backdrop for about as long as they've existed, beginning with Wolfenstein 3D- not technically the first FPS, but the one that laid the foundation for everything we would eventually associate with the genre.
WWII games have been represented by just about every genre imaginable, though first-person shooters and real-time strategy games are perhaps the most iconic.
It makes sense that dozens upon dozens of video games have been set during WWII, as not only does Hitler make for the perfect Big Bad, it is an excuse to arm players to the teeth and have them engage in an epic, globe-spanning battle.
With the recent confirmation that the Call of Duty franchise is going to return to its original setting of World War II this fall, there is no better time to look back at the history of video games that have tackled the conflict of World War II.
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