For instance, the Civ games are basically Whig History: The Game, presenting liberal capitalism as the ideal end point for all societies. It even includes uncivilized "barbarian tribes" whose sole purpose is to be exterminated so you can take their land for the glory of capitalism.
The Company of Heroes series is just Hollywood WW2: The Game. You've got:
Noble Americans fighting for freedom/their brothers in arms in western Europe à la Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.
Clean Wehrmacht campaigns and factions.
Enemy at the Gates-style Red Army campaign and faction.
The series is so fun to play, but damn if it isn't asinine how dirty they did the Soviets in CoH2.
i was just about to mention this abhorrent game story and how distanced from reality both Relic and the second game got, i am also very glad i'm not the only communist that enjoyed it's gameplay.
mechanically, I absolutely love COH - the unit production of small squads that then have specific cover mechanics that are easily repositionable blew my fucking mind when it first came out
Yeah i typed up a whole reply on CoH2 but deleted it. It's repugnant that the developers thought it was appropriate to make some lousy political statement out of the Soviet campaign after doing the whole Clean Wehrmacht shtick in the first game. They also thought it was chill to depict the red army as fratricidal idiots who massacred Soviet civilians because they couldn't be bothered to evacuate them before going scorched earth on their villages.
Then when Russian players understandably called out the studio on this, Relic doubled down and said they'd done their research. Their research was like one book written by some anticommunist. So yeah their single player campaign is pure ideology and I'm sorry to say, that ideology is fascism. Well, I liked Relic's other games but I won't be buying their schlock any more. However...
There are a few community mods that replace the Soviet units with historical ones, pretty much replacing the Asiatic hordes with a more dignified and historically respectful depiction of real troops and several different Soviet nationalities. Also the Red Army troops have some absolutely based lines about machinegunning fascists, fighting for the revolution, driving out the invaders, etc, and the music is actually really good so the action is really cinematic and satisfying when it comes together. I've logged a truly shameful number of hours playing the spearhead mod against the computer, lol.
So this one gets me because I enjoy the game but can't even recommend buying it on sale, with the repugnant developers and their dreary liberal attitude.