I'm not completely sure how I feel about this...

Video game violence has been, for me, something I have been more or less indifferent to, simply because it has never really had any level of realism to me. Even titles that are known to be pretty violent don't seem to cross a line of realistic violence, in my mind.

Now, there are some games that push violence so that it is over the top, or really photo realistic, or attach emotional or psychological consequences to the violence involved, in an effort to push the envelope and somehow prove that video games can, indeed, desensitize people towards real-world violence. Games like these, I tend to avoid.

Take what I say with a grain of salt, but I do not like crass or senseless violence. And somehow, games like, say, Quake never made me feel like the violence crossed a certain line. Films tend to bother me much more, and so I avoid films that are based on the ideas of violence or killing.

This game, while the violence alone doesn't seem all that terrible, crosses the line, to me, in that it feels like a gimmick to try and revive interest in WWII shooters. You can argue all you want that WWII has been overdone, or that it hasn't been done enough, but the reality of it all is that real people died and that simulating ultra-violence in a setting meant to recreate moments from an actual event in human history seems very disrespectful to me.

Some WWII shooters seemed fine in the way they portrayed WWII, but slow-motion shots of the gritty details of the wounds of the people you are shooting, meant to excite the player, just makes me feel a bit sick.