The second entry fleshed out the Eastern Front and Soviet Red Army. The first game’s campaign involved the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of France. In the past, Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes strategy games stuck to this focus, too. World War II was an expansive conflict, but our view of it tends to focus on the European and Pacific theaters.
If you look at games, film, and television, you’ll see the same touchpoints: D-Day, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Midway.