It wants you to take its goofy campaign seriously and asks us all to pretend that racism didn’t exist in 1945 outside of Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, instead of simply going full alt-history (think Wolfenstein ) Vanguard wants to have its cake and eat it, too.
Despite taking place across several fronts-in Asia, Africa and Europe-the game has almost no grounding in reality. There are simply different factions, all of whom are apparently the good guys, because Vanguard has done almost nothing to faithfully represent WWII at all.
There are no playable Nazis in multiplayer. The Allies and Axis troops could both be women and could both be various races, and people made fun of the fact that you could play as a black female Nazi. Call Of Duty: WWII mostly did a pretty good job with this, though there was some controversy around character customization in multiplayer. Even so, I think it’s important that video games-even big, dumb games like COD-like all art, tread carefully when recreating history. Yes, I realize that Call of Duty is a fantastical franchise with very flimsy ties to reality. Korea was the first war since the American Civil War in which black and white troops fought side by side.Īll of this matters because history matters. Interestingly, the US military was less racially segregated during the American Revolutionary War than it was during WWII. Specifically, the American military was desegregated on July 26th, 1948 when president Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 which abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. Black troops did fight alongside white troops, but you didn’t start seeing mixed-race squads until later.
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