9 Video Game Plotlines You Didn't Realise Were Based On True Stories
2. Velvet Assassin
The game: World War II is anything but a poorly-explored period in human history for any entertainment medium, not least video games, but Velvet Assassin developer Replay Studios at least attempted to buck the trend of endless Nazi shooting galleries by placing its tale of struggle against the Axis Powers within a stealth framework.
Front and centre at the story of espionage is Violette Summer, the smart, athletic civilian who turns to a career in covert operations for the British government, her many feats played out through flashbacks as Summer lay comatose in a French hospital bed.
The inspiration: Trading Dorset for Paris as her birthplace, the real Violette Summer carried the surname Szabo and did, in fact, work jointly with British and Fench special forces, a decision she made when news of her husband's death in the war surfaced.
As part of her new occupation, Szabo was involved in but two operations. The first was successful, but the second resulted in her capture, torture and execution at the hands of the SS.
Szabo was posthumously awarded the George Cross.