Smell that? It’s one of Grandma’s Saurkraut Pies!

This is my kind of World War II; the What If stuff. Unfortunately, it comes few and far between. My oldest memory is of that scientist going back in time at the beginning of Command & Conquer: Red Alert to vaporize Adolf Hitler before he even realized he hated Jews. This, of course, left Stalin largely unopposed and he nearly conquered the world. Go figure.

More recently, a morally restless New York plumber and his brother (ahem, not Mario & Luigi) set out to stop a Russian invasion in the Big Apple in Freedom Fighters. And on the extreme end there’s Agent Rayne who fights the Germans with, umm, her vampire fangs and the PlayStation 3’s Resistance: Fall of Man which replaces Nazis… with aliens.

Yup, World War II is still a strong setting for games and it looks like there’s a new What If shooter on its way from Codemasters and Spark Unlimited; Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

“In 1931 Winston Churchill survived being struck by a taxi while crossing the street in New York. What if Churchill had died and wasn’t alive to voice the battle cry that inspired the Allied troops to confront the Nazi war machine? What if England had surrendered to Hitler? What if there was no D-Day and Pearl Harbor never happened? What if the United States never entered WWII until WWII came knocking at their front door.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty opens in 1952 as Germany lands a well planned surprise attack on the gateway of the United States eastern coast – New York. Nazi battleships quickly take the harbor, German aircraft pound the city streets with ordinance, and Zeppelins and assault blimps deploy troops to take the city block by block. With New York falling to pieces, and Washington D.C. in enemy sights, will anyone be able to stop the Nazi Blitzkrieg on American soil?”

Now, if only Hitler actually chokes on that infamous bagel that his pet dog Blondi really snatched out of his hand in real life, forcing him into an Iron Lung until his mad scientists create a robotic shell to keep his head in and… oh wait.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is in the works for a Fall 2007 release on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. More screens (including a couple of in-game shots) at Codemasters’ site.