10 Best Historical First-Person Shooter Video Games

Historical accuracy is something that players always try to find in historical first-person shooters (something that Sledgehammer Games did not see when they tried to add female African SS troopers in a WWII game) but if there’s a WWII game that can be called the most accurate out there then look no further than Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30.

At first glance, gamers may assume that the game is generic. It is set during the Normandy landings, a historical event already done to death by that point. But what sets Brothers in Arms apart from other WWII games is authenticity courtesy of painstaking research done by Gearbox Software. Developers of the game actually fired WWII guns to see how they operate in real life.

Places and maps were drawn from actual historical photographs. Historical engagements like Battle of Bloody Gulch and Operation XYZ were recreated precisely. Even the protagonist Mathew Baker was based on a real life WWII hero named Harrison Summers.

Add also other elements such as tactical gameplay where you can control your squad, and a dramatic and based on real-life tragedy story and Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 can be considered the best WWII game in history.