The late ‘90s saw several ambitious flight sims take on the Korean War: Virgin Group’s Sabre Ace: Conflict Over Korea and Rowan Software’s response, MiG Alley two years later. You’ll have to be pretty forgiving with this one, particularly if you’ve gotten used to the new-fangled conveniences of Assault Squad 2, but as Korean War games go, this is one of the most focused and modern, sadly enough. I’ve been particularly impressed with the terrain, which features steep Korean mountain ranges and rural architecture that set it apart from 1C’s WWII games. Theatre of War 3 also adds some of the important new hardware of the time, like transport helicopters, new artillery pieces, and jets. The campaigns are non-linear and change based on your performance and decisions, and it adopts a more squad-focused control scheme, saving you from having to manage each individual soldier as in the first Men of War. That said, Theatre of War 3 provides one of the vanishingly few dedicated, out-of-the-box Korean War strategy experiences available, and it added some key innovations to the 1C formula.
Therefore, I’m expanding my scope to include a few categories that wouldn’t otherwise be considered: these include generic cold war games as well as Korean war-themed mods.Ĭampaigns are non-linear and change based on your performance and decisions The selection of actual Korean War games is small enough that it’s hard enough to even create a list of them that are playable on modern machines, much less a list of 'the best' of those.
Korea was a difficult, brutal, and depressing war, and the lack of a clear-cut resolution makes it unattractive as a source of American myth-creation.Īll that to say this: I’ve decided to cheat heavily in creating this list. The reasons for this are open to speculation my own view is that it’s much tougher to map the sides of the conflict onto simplified notions of 'good guys' and 'bad guys,' and that the west runs into difficult moral territory when we start talking about how the fighting came to a provisional close.
In contrast to the bulging libraries of WW2 games, Vietnam War games, Napoleonic games, Medieval games, Cold War games, or videogames covering almost any other key historical conflict, the Korean War (1950-53) simply hasn’t been a popular setting for games or film. When it comes to Korean War games, the gaming world suffers from a perpetual shortage of games in any genre at all.
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