fair enough, I've seen others that ended up similar like the unrealistic shock troops in Medal of honor airborne. I always assumed they looked up "panzer corps" in google and saw the red eyes motiff and it clicked. I always thought I read an article where someone said it was a visual reference to it, but I may have read a fan pretending to know what he was talking about or something, so I take my "ripoff" stance back in light of word from the actual developers. but seriously the comparison is uncanny!
there are plenty more examples of this:
HL2
star wars:
resident evil
etc....lol