Codemasters announces Fall of Liberty

By Phil Elliott, GameSpot UKPosted Aug 31, 2006 10:25 am PT

A new Second World War FPS title from the creators of Call of Duty: Finest Hour will see Nazis occupy America.

Ever wondered what Freedom Fighters would have been like with Nazis instead of Soviets? Gamers will soon get a chance to find out. Today, Spark Unlimited, the controversy-wracked studio behind Call of Duty: Finest Hour, announced a new first-person shooter called Fall of Liberty for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

Oh dear. This can't end well...

Fall of Liberty is set in an alternate history that sees famed prime minister Winston Churchill die in 1936--three years prior to the outbreak of World War II. Without his steadfast leadership, the Nazis overwhelm Europe and occupy Great Britain. Bolstered by its success, the German war machine then extends its reach across the Atlantic and invades the United States in 1951, occupying Washington DC and threatening Manhattan with nuclear attack.

Spark CEO Craig Allen commented that he wanted to give players "a realistic vision of an alternative world history...something radically different than typical WWII scenarios as the player is not cast as the liberator of Europe but as a defender of freedom in enemy-occupied America." The game will be the second alternate-history PS3 shooter: Resistance: Fall of Man, due this fall, takes place in an alien-occupied UK during the 1950s--after WWII never happened.

[UPDATE] Currently, Fall of Liberty is set for release in Q4 2007 in Europe and North America, where it is being published by British-based Codemasters. The announcement marks the second major recent deal for Spark, which just announced an agreement with Vivendi Games subsidiary Sierra Entertainment to publish an unnamed next-generation FPS with a "modern setting."

108 Comments

  • Robert9650

    Posted Jan 2, 2008 7:39 am PT

    It'll be great when it comes out, which is before most of the other FPS games come out later in the year.

  • jason320

    Posted Dec 13, 2007 3:29 pm PT

    Looks cool

  • athenian29

    Posted Dec 13, 2007 2:40 pm PT

    Danalfmon:

    When is Q4?

    Omg dude... Q4 is October, November and December. You know, Fourth Quarter of the year?

    An afterthought: why is the so-called fiscal year so out-of-whack with a normal year?

  • 8smokes

    Posted Dec 12, 2007 1:58 pm PT

    This game's looking sleek! But I do recall them saying, "This game is DEFINATLY going to come out this year". Wish it was, I can't wait for this!

  • Robert9650

    Posted Dec 3, 2007 4:14 pm PT

    Why do people want to play as the Germans? I don't I'd rather play as a resistance fighter since most games you play as a soldier and those are getting boring. Oh and I think I like this game a lot so I put it on my tracking list. When it comes out, which is on February 26, 2008, I want to go to Gamestop and buy this game.

  • Bull_Of_Mors

    Posted Nov 29, 2007 1:20 am PT

    cus germans failed miseribly just like the iraqis will and so did the vietcong UN forever!!

  • Lonelynight

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 6:08 pm PT

    cool, I hope we can play as germans

  • aeterna789

    Posted Mar 17, 2007 3:41 am PT

    Can we play a German campaign? It would be nice to really have an alternate ending where we can play as a German SS.

  • Versus_XIII

    Posted Jan 30, 2007 2:57 pm PT

    Oh knows. Getting in touch with my German blood.

  • SumerianDaemon

    Posted Jan 21, 2007 6:53 am PT

    Why cant we play the Germans and take over the whole world?

  • rifton

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 5:55 pm PT

    @danalfmon

    It means between October and December.

  • josefkrump

    Posted Jan 16, 2007 4:26 pm PT

    i do
    this game will be a good one i think
    or it could be a other history channel games "god forbid"

  • musicalmac Site moderator

    Posted Jan 15, 2007 1:05 pm PT

    Interesting. It reminds me of the show, Sliders... Anyone old enough to remember that?

  • danalfmon

    Posted Jan 15, 2007 12:05 pm PT

    When is Q4?

  • peregrine93

    Posted Oct 27, 2006 6:21 pm PT

    It. Sounds. Cool.

  • SHAZ101

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 12:45 pm PT

    This Game looks cool. Why are people so offended by it. The point of alternate history is so we can see what the world would be like if something went differently. FoL does not offend me.

  • wingzero101

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 7:27 pm PT

    this sounds pretty im definetly tracking it

  • xfightingirishx

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 5:31 pm PT

    seeing how finest was garbadge im not so sure this will work out.......but the idea sounds relly interesting

  • Mp5slipknot

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 12:38 am PT

    Well at least their trying something a little different, gotta give them props for that.

  • MoldOnHold

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 11:11 am PT

    hmm...the premise seems really interesting

    here's hoping that it rises above the glut of countless WWII shooters and makes an impact on its own

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