8 SEVERELY Underused Locations In Video Games
2. The Cold War
The most obvious reason the Cold War is so rarely seen in video games is because it was, as the name suggests, never an openly hostile war. That said, the decades-long back and forth between the U.S and the U.S.S.R is one full of espionage, double-agents, and nuclear near-misses. Sounds perfect right?
Post World War II, the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union reached boiling point, and both nations threatened each other with nuclear war. As mentioned previously, the war never broke out, but that doesn't mean there wasn't plenty of fighting taking place. Whether it was the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, the blockade in Berlin, the Iran-Iraq war, or the Cuban Missile Crisis, there was no shortage of proxy conflicts between the nations.
This is the period that spawned the notion of James Bond-style spies, stealing of national secrets, as well as the space race that led to the moon landing. It lasted for roughly 50 years, until communism in Russia collapsed in 1991 - as communism always does. There's so much room to explore and cover in that 50 year period, and it's been largely ignored by the gaming world. For shame!