The History Channel’s Civil War/WWII “Call of Duty” Games | PS2/Wii/PC Retro Review
36Welcome to A Positive Spin, a segment dedicated to dusting off some of retro-gamings most infamous blunders and trying to look on the bright side of things. On today's video, I'll be discussing The History Channel's Civil War: A Nation Divided on the PS2, Battle for the Pacfic on the Wii/PC, and Civil War: Secret Missions on the PC (also the Xbox 360/PS3)!
Back in the early 2000's, Call of Duty was basically everywhere. After being released as a PC exclusive in 2003 and getting a few console spinoffs, the series made the leap to home consoles with 2005's Call of Duty 2 for the Xbox 360 and the era of the console modern military FPS began.
With tons of games vying for the #1 spot on the charts such as CoD 4: Modern Warfare (as well as World at War, Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops, etc) Battlefield Bad Company and Bad Company 2, Medal of Honor's own reboot and even stuff like Homefront, it was obvious that gamers wanted as many automatic-health-regenerating, aiming-down-iron-sights fun as possible.
So naturally, Call of Duty's publisher, Activision (now Activision Blizzard) was eager to cash in on the whole thing, which led to a trilogy of History Channel licensed games hitting the market based on the American Civil War and World War II respectively, with titles for the Playstation 2, the Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
These three games (Civil War: A Nation Divided, Battle for the Pacific, and Civil War: Secret Missions respectively) would all go on to get released within a month of a mainline Call of Duty, would feature similar gameplay, and were all absolutely eviscerated by critics like IGN or GameSpot.
But is there anything special to these games despite their reputation and should fans of Call of Duty or retro video games as a whole give them a shot sometime?
Uh... here's hoping there is?
Chapters:
00:00 - Cold Open (Ken Burns’ Niche’s History Wars’ The Nation Divided’s Diary Entry)
02:00 - Intro
11:40 - Question of the Day
12:27 - The History Channel: Civil War: A Nation Divided (PS2)
29:59 - The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific (Wii/PC)
44:11 - The History Channel: Civil War: Secret Missions (PC)
53:07 - Conclusion
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NichePlays is a retro gaming review, discussion, appreciation channel by Nicholas Caesar, a writer and video editor from New Jersey. In each of his videos, Nicholas tries to mix his love of comedy and pop culture with the video essay/game review format in a way that is part Girlfriend Reviews, Scott the Woz and Cinemassacre, and part Game Sack, SomeCallMeJohnny, and StopSkeletonsFromFighting. His favorite consoles include the Nintendo Switch, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Oh and he (I, let's not kid ourselves) tries to do it in a fun, approachable and level headed way. Because like, they're games. It probably isn't that deep.