10 Best Historical First-Person Shooter Video Games

When Medal of Honor came out, it set a standard for clean WWII shooters with obvious heroic protagonists and nasty villains. The Call of Duty series became its rival in 2003, but what set it apart when it came to WWII fps games was its fifth installment Call of Duty World at War.

In World at War, player assumes the role of a US Marine in the Pacific Theatre and a Soviet soldier in the Easter European theatre. While the game is filled with anachronistic firearms and inaccurate portrayal of WWII missions, unlike other games before it World at War took the advantage of the IW Engine in presenting the war as dirty, gritty and gruesome like never before.

Torching a Japanese soldier with a flamethrower, gunning unarmed German soldiers and basically blowing up limbs and heads were captured graphically in the game, just to show how evil war is to both sides.