10 Movies That Directly Influenced Gaming
8. Saving Private Ryan
Games Influenced: Medal Of Honor, Call Of Duty
So if Rambo took gaming to new unparalleled heights of violence and splosin’s, Saving Private Ryan grounded it into more realism.
The opening of Saving Private Ryan depicts the Normandy landings in an ultra-realistic, harrowing way that audiences had never seen before, and it wasn’t before long until game companies wanted to exploit that experience for some good old fashioned family fun.
Founded by Speilberg in 1994, Dreamworks pictures joined forces with Microsoft to create the development company Dreamworks Interactive. Apparently when watching his son play Goldeneye one afternoon, Spielberg pitched the idea of emulating that experience into a WWII environment. T
Two years later - with the help of writer Peter Hirschman and military advisor Dale Dye, who had worked previously Speilberg on Saving Private Ryan - the first Medal Of Honour game was good to go.
It wasn’t too long after that an entire slew of copycat WW2 games hit the market, including a charming, forgotten indie shooter called Call Of Duty that sadly didn’t amount to anything.