I’m a little ambivalent about WWII games. There’s an awful lot of them, and they all seem to cover the same ground. How many times have you simulated a landing at D-Day by now? Or established a rapport with your charmingly ethnic squad buddies in a cutscene?

Now me, if I were going to make a game set in that era, I’d base it on my grandfather’s memoirs. Admittedly, freezing in the Ardennes might not be as exciting as a beachhead, but I’d like to see people’s reactions to playing a shell-shocked, nihilistic teenager in postwar Germany, getting into territorial gun battles with gangs of other U.S. soldiers and buying hungry girls with Hershey bars.

But I digress.

The next best way to send up the overwrought sepia-drenched WWII game genre is probably to get The Simpsons involved. Advertising agency Hammer Creative recently won a Golden Trailer award for doing just that.

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