History VideoGame / HistoryCivilWarSecretMissions

* SgtRock: Sergeant Mckinley is the only named commanding officer in the game. As a CO, its his job to bark orders at the player before the start of the missions.

* UrbanWarfare: Many of the Union’s mission levels take place in Southern cities and towns ravaged by battle, like Jackson and Vicksburg.

* ThePoliticalOfficer: The commanding officers and comrades of the player protagonists sometimes begin and end the mission with some colorful language. Some of these dialogue can be a bit brutal, knowing that the actual Civil War was a conflict that was political, philosophical, and can be personal as well.

* LeeroyJenkins: The mission “Sharpshooters at Devil’s Den” ends with Union soldiers charging at the player and his one comrade. Although this might not be that much, said player is also a sniper.

* LastStand: A few of the Confederate missions are these, which isn’t surprising, since in the real Civil War they were less-equipped and less-funded than the Union, motivated only with a fanatic desire for secession. One Confederate mission literally has the player taking on a platoon of Union soldier armed with cannons while trapped inside a church, and another Union mission has the player firing cannons at a burning Confederate city inside an ironclad warship.

* ThePoliticalOfficer: The commanding officers and comrades of the player protagonists sometimes begin and end the mission with some colorful language. Some of these dialogue can be a bit brutal, knowing that the actual Civil War was a conflict that was political, philosophical, and can be personal as well.

* MostWritersAreWriters: The only named protagonist, Edward “Eric” Hogger, aspires to become a writer before the Civil War. The back-up short story of the game details possibly a page from Eric’s diary.

''History Civil War: Secret Missions'' is a historical FirstPersonShooter video game developed by Cauldron Ltd, and released on 4 November 2008 by Activision Value and the History Channel for Microsoft Windows, Play Station 2, Play Station 3 and Xbox 360. It is a sequel to ''The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided''. The game allows players to play under both the Union and Confederate in many of the American Civil War’s most famous battles.

* BottomlessMagazine: Both present and subverted. Magazine-fed gatling guns basically has unlimited ammo, but the other machine gun, coffee mill gun, will overheat if used too much (just like the real-life version).

* Bottomless Magazine: Both present and subverted. Magazine-fed gatling guns basically has unlimited ammo, but the other machine gun, coffee mill gun, will overheat if used too much (just like the real-life version).

''History Civil War: Secret Missions'' is a historical first-person shooter video game developed by Cauldron Ltd, and released on 4 November 2008 by Activision Value and the History Channel for Microsoft Windows, Play Station 2, Play Station 3 and Xbox 360. It is a sequel to ''The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided''. The game allows players to play under both the Union and Confederate in many of the American Civil War’s most famous battles.

The game is one of the most remembered first-person shooters with a Civil War setting. Although receiving mixed to negative reviews even to this day, the game has revolutionized the FPS genre into adopting obscure historical wars and settings. It was not the first Civil War shooter (''Gods and Generals'' and its predecessor were the first), ''Secret Missions'' was the first to showcase that it is possible to make a good game with a different historical setting besides World War II, and thus paving the way for similar games like ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood'', ''VideoGame/DarkestOfDays'' and ''War of Rights''.

* TheAmericanCivilWar: Game takes place in this era as ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* UrbanWarfare: Many of the Union’s mission levels take place in Southern cities and towns ravaged by battle.

[[caption-width-right:300:During the Civil War, small and irregular pockets of men were called upon to perform spectacular raids, disrupt enemy supply lines and wreak havoc on opposing armies setting the stage for great battles!]]

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The game is one of the most remembered first-person shooters with a Civil War setting. Although receiving mixed to negative reviews even to this day, the game has revolutionized the FPS genre into taking adopting obscure historical wars and settings. It was not the first Civil War shooter (''Gods and Generals'' and its predecessor were the first), ''Secret Missions'' was the first to showcase that it is possible, and thus paving the way for similar games like ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood'', ''VideoGame/DarkestOfDays'' and ''War of Rights''.

* {{Ranger}} One mission depicts John Mosby and his rangers.

The game is one of the most remembered first-person shooters with a Civil War setting. Although receiving mixed to negative reviews even to this day, the game has revolutionized the FPS genre into taking adopting obscure historical wars and settings. It was not the first Civil War shooter (''Gods and Generals'' and its predecessor were the first), ''Secret Missions'' was the first to showcase that it is possible, and thus paving the way for similar games like ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood'' and ''VideoGame/DarkestOfDays''.