Wolfenstein: The New Order

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Announcement Trailer


13 Minute Featurette - gamespot


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_The_New_Order
Developer - MachineGames
Published - Bethesda Softworks
Engine - id Tech 5
Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Next Generation Consoles

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I'm very excited about this. I love works of this style and genre, be it movies, games, comics or whatever else out there. There's just something charming to me about alternative worlds where evil wins, etc..

With that said, just to spice things up, Warren Spector had nothing positive to say about this game upon the initial announcement (before any images were shown) via his FB;
Did the world really need another Wolfenstein game? Did we need a generically dark, monochromatic, FPS, kill-the-Nazi-giant-robot game?

Uh. No. The world did not. I am so tired of stuff like this...

Oh, and could we all just agree we'll never use the generic gravelly-whisper trailer voice guy ever again?

And one more thing: Please stop using Jimi Hendrix to promote your adolescent male power fantasies.

Thank you. I'm done.
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I don't agree with him, but I understand what he's saying. I don't think Epic Mickey (while I'm sure was fun and different) wasn't exactly blazing any trails, though.

Discuss.
 
Ill seriously hope it won't freeze like Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but idea for new Wolfenstein is great :sly:
 
I must have missed this being posted. I did get to see the first vid last night and I agree, it looks very impressive.

Even moreso with addition of the dev interview. I wasn't aware that it would also be next-gen too. There will be a bit more reveal on this at E3 apparently.

I also like the alternative history genre - some good novels out there but WWII as crux-point is definitely a favourite. I think it may be the alien-tech aspect which the devs are keeping quiet about, which would give them the boost needed.

Pretty much an action version of The Man in the High Castle story.

EDIT: This is the trailer I saw last night, gameplay included.

 
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We had the original Wolfenstein game and it was a blast. It was my older brothers game and at the time we didn't have a very fast internet and often our connection would lag out. Still it was a lot of fun, can't wait to see what this one offers.
 
chuckl
We had the original Wolfenstein game and it was a blast. It was my older brothers game and at the time we didn't have a very fast internet and often our connection would lag out. Still it was a lot of fun, can't wait to see what this one offers.
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A fast connection in 1992? Was that even possible?

Btw, the original Wolfenstein game had no online mode, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
I'm talking about Wolfenstein 3D, but if anyone wonders: Wolf3D was the first FPS, but the really first one was Castle Wolfenstein from 1981.
 
So who bought this??

I love it. Feels oldschool. Way better Wolfenstein than the last one. Feels like Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Guns have a nice feel. Iron sights are in. Or you take 2 guns in hand and shoot everything.

Story so far is great and funny. Cool easter eggs (playing driving car, Original Wolfenstein level....)
 
I came in fearing that Wolfenstein: New Order was going to be yet another failed, half-assed attempt at breathing some new life into an historic saga.

But my fears were wiped away as soon as I started playing! One of the best games out of this decade, IMHO. The gameplay is nostalgic and retro, yet very refreshing: you will die a lot, and yet you will never feel frustrated - that's my definition of fun and challenging.

The OST is top-notch and always fits the mood for the scene; and what mood! The storytelling powers are strong; the cutscenes are never too long, too short, or come in at the wrong time. BJ's internal monologues add the right amount of information and only add to the goodness of the dialogues of this game.
The game explores faces of Nazism that were never kept in consideration in the past Wolfenstein games. You will see the Nazis not random gasmask mooks leaded by an affably evil psycopath: the Nazist ideology is presented in all of its brutality and horribility; so is, to a certain degree, the amount of political scheming that happened in the Nazist bureaucracy.
BJ went from a mute puppet in the hands of the player to a cocky, cheap protagonist in Wolfenstein 2k9; now however we will see a fully developed character with his own strong convinctions and his own baggage; he's far more mature than his precedent incarnation, but at the same time, that doesn't mean that they watered down his badassitude.
The secondary characters could've been developed more, I'll have to give that to negative reviewers; however, I think MachineGames gave them the necessary development and exposition, leaving to the player to interpret their motivations. And do I need to talk about how convincing and solid the antagonists are? Deathshead is probably the best videogame villain I've met in my long career. He's credible. That's why you'll probably wait in trepidation for the whole game for the moment you'll be finally able to kill him.

And the world they've built around the idea of the Nazis winning the war, hell, let's just say it's one of the most convincing uchronic works on the theme I've ever seen. As an added bonus, we get the reinterpretation of many popular songs of the 60s in a form the NSDAP would approve of.

P.S: I don't know about the English dub, but the Italian one is top-notch. Again, probably the best dub I've ever heard in a videogame. Bonus points because the dubber for Blazkowicz also lent his voice to the ur-Didact in Halo 4 and Batou in the original dubbing of Ghost in the Shell and he's just the right voice for this shell-shocked, square-jawed, Nazi-hating BJ.
 
ussr
Platinum trophy after hardly 21 hours of playing. As for length i'm disappointed. But game it self is very good. 👍
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Was that an unaided Platinum, as in not a speed run by using a guide? Forgive me for asking it in that way, but you have mentioned your quests for platinums several times before, so I just wondered if this was the case, or was it the result of a normal playthrough?


chuckl
We had the original Wolfenstein game and it was a blast. It was my older brothers game and at the time we didn't have a very fast internet and often our connection would lag out. Still it was a lot of fun, can't wait to see what this one offers.
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I have heard that there is an Easter Egg in the game that lets you play the original.
 
^Yes there is the Wolfenstein 3D level in it. You need to find a bed to have a nightmare. Level is awesome. Memory lane.

I think I am near the end too, Chapiter 9. Could be longer, but the story was cool. Only the search and fetch interludes were a bit of a drag that wasn't needed.

Good review Clyde.
 

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