The first and most obvious one is the "D-Day" mission, modeling its missions, plot, and setting to the movie Saving Private Ryan. Several of the chapters in the game are actually modeled off of famous WWII movies and novels. Some of the conversations they have are quite humorous, and can be pretty long as well. If you go to the cheat menu, and turn on subtitles, you can see what they say if you sneak up on them unnoticed. A detailed list of changes can be found on (German).Īll of the Nazis speak real German. Additionally all level statistics (except time and overall evaluation) were removed, the cutscenes using historical film material were re-cut and all words like "Nazi", "Hitler" or "Führer" were avoided during localization. For the same reason all Nazi flags in the game were replaced. In Germany the game had to be pulled from the shelves and all the covers had to be reprinted, because there was a swastika on the back cover and Nazi symbols aren't allowed in (or on) games there.
This movie is also just as historically inaccurate as the game, which suggests, perhaps, that it was even the basis for which the objective was based on.Īnother funny reference is that in the cheat menu, the typewriter you enter in cheats on is actually the Enigma itself. The plot of the movie details an American naval crew attempting to capture the Naval Enigma cipher aboard the U-Boat U-571. As well, the Naval Enigma cipher was actually captured by a British boarding crew on the U-110, not a single American soldier.īesides the historical background, the little objective is also a reference to the WWII movie U-571. During WWII, only 15 cipher books had been captured, and the Americans and Canadians had one each. There is also the matter of historical accuracy. The simple fact that you can walk up to the machine and steal the codebook is questionable in the game, though such a feat certainly would have been awarded. As a result, the Enigma's codebooks and secrets were extremely well-guarded. The system of encryption for the Enigma was extremely complex, and only through operator error, procedural error, or captured codebooks (a.k.a cipher) could the Allies decipher the messages. The Enigma was an encryption and cipher machine that the Germans used most famously in WWII. The German Enigma coding machine was not fictitious. You can find a German Enigma Machine, and by pressing the action button can take the machine's codes and complete the bonus objective, and earn a medal for the action. However, the level contains a bonus objective that is not told to you by the game. During the second mission of chapter two, "Storm in the Port", you are on a German U-Boat and have to steal any information you can and sabotage the boat.