Unfortunately the MW series of games lost this which I think was a shame. Different goals though than the original franchise I guess.
They really ought to have a series as told from the POV of multiple countries, in the likes of the original series. I would really like to have a historical take on COD from a French resistance perspective. I’m not sure sure that’s fly in todays market. Video games back in the day were a bit off a treat, took 5-10m to start, not something you could whip out your smart phone and play anytime anywhere.
One of the best video games in terms of story telling.
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude#Original_...
>In the southern summer of 1946–1947, the US Navy appeared to ‘invade’ Antarctica using a large force. The operation, code-named Highjump, was classified confidential. In 1958, three nuclear weapons were exploded in the region, as part of another classified US operation, code-named Argus.
I want to play this video game.
So it was done at altitude of over 100 miles. I'm certainly not saying that's a good thing. All I'm saying is that saying it was exploded in the region while technically true is a bit misleading.
Due to ex. gravity, whether it’s at altitude or not is a bit of a nit
> There were 11 journalists aboard the Highjump ships. Among them were the distinguished US war correspondent Lee Van Atta (who was not, as claimed by Goodrick- Clarke (2002), Chilean), and the science writer of the New York Times, Walter Sullivan. Between 2 December 1946, and 22 March 1947, the 11 journalists transmitted 2011 messages totalling 478,338 words to Radio Washington, for onward transmission to their employers (US Navy 1947). Some of the people on the expedition wrote books about their experiences (Byrd 1947; Sullivan 1957). Given the tremendous degree of press coverage, it was misleading for Choron (date unknown) to state: ‘little other information was released to the media about the mission, although most journalists were suspicious of its true purpose given the huge amount of military hardware involved.’
> ""Operation Deep Frost" is a thrilling first-person shooter game set in the desolate, frozen landscape of Antarctica. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness," the game combines the chilling atmosphere of Lovecraftian horror with intense action-packed gameplay. Players embark on a dangerous mission to infiltrate a secret Nazi base hidden within the ancient, otherworldly mountains and uncover the dark secrets that lie within."
;-)
Nonetheless fascinating reading.
I have no idea what use I'll put it to, but I'm stealing that.
1. U-Boats couldn't get through sea ice to Antarctica: what if they were modified? What if the specs for u-boats used to assert this was wrong? What if there was a path through the sea ice that was classified? The list goes on forever
2. SAS men in the region at the time had civilian jobs: Says who? At a glance they're basing this off of civilian contracts with these men's names on them. This is easily faked
3. Operation Highjump was designed to train the US Navy for a possible war with the Soviet Union in the Arctic: Again, says who? Based on documentation provided by the government themselves?
Ultimately it boils down to this:
"Activities that were classified have subsequently been declassified"
Given how much subterfuge and psyops the US government has provably done throughout its history, doctoring and faking declassified documents is something they have assuredly done. There is definitely a long, rich history of destroying documents.
From Project Argus on Wikipedia - an electron shield to fry missiles is pretty out of the box!
After WWII, the threat was the Soviet Union. The US maintained air bases in the Western Aleutians until 1994, as a defense against the Soviet Union. One of the worst places to be stationed.[1] Hence the US military's interest in being able to operate near the poles.
Hello Jerry.
- Aristotle
"Fiction is a certain packaging of the truth, or higher truths. Indeed I find that there is more truth in Proust, albeit it is officially fictional, than in the babbling analyses of the New York Times that give us the illusions of understanding what’s going on. Newspapers have officially the right facts, but their interpretations are imaginary – and their choice of facts are arbitrary. They lie with right facts; a novelist says the truth with wrong facts."
- N.N. Taleb
That this story still has such vigor in the public's imagination tells me that if Hitler doesn't have a flying saucer base down there, somebody does.
