Nazis are indeed an overused sort of bad guys. Helghast are cool though. I haven't played any of the Killzone games, but to me, they come across as soldiers that fight for the cause they see is right, even noble in their own rotting-zombie-like way. This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_W1_WbvufQ] theme of theirs might be a large impact, of course. Ruthless to their enemies, fighting for a cause they see is right (as far as I understand, they were somewhat forced to live on their extremely hostile homeworld, being exiled there by the ISA oppressions, the role of which you assume in the games, so their hatred is more than justified) - eliminating the traitor human race. Hell, drop the space-nazi entourage, switch their flags to red, blue and white, and there, now they are the ultimate good guys that were wronged and crippled by their oppressors in the eyes of the media. That's how easy it really is to demonize your enemy - throw nazi entourage on them. That's how deep this whole thing has sat in.
Maybe Killzone has taken the right approach in this, where both conflicting sides can be related to. On the battlefield, the enemy is always evil. But when looking from afar, the two armies clashed into a conflict are often enough exactly the same. But that is thought provoking and difficult to understand, therefore it has no place in the mass media. Nazi Germany should be held as a good example of what happens, when the victors of war go too far in their self-righteous thirst for loot, not the symbol of great evil.
