When I was young, I played a lot of air-combat games. If I remember well I learned the Ukrainian geography while Bombing Russian troops in Odessa playing USNF Video for the kids . Another game had a campaign in Yemen. If my memory isn’t too rusty, there was also Egypt and Korea campaign.
20 years latter, it seems pretty accurate, so I am curious on where the campaign occur nowaday, just to know where I shouldn’t go
World of Tanks/World of Warships?
Neither uses especially real locations, and teams are made up of players regardless of the national origins of their respective vehicles. So my buddy in a Soviet T-34 can battle alongside my Sherman M4. There’s no overarching “nation vs nation” story to either game.
War thunder was a pretty descent alternative… a litltle bit less arcadish. The devs acted like they were hosting a simulator but aerodynamics are pretty bad even in sim mode.
The tank mode was pretty good imo