(Knowing that The New Order is set in 1960, I couldn’t figure out how this game – which takes place in 1946 – stars the same character. B.J.’s ultimate goal is to track down the nasty Helga Von Schabbs and recover a dossier revealing the location of General Deathshead – subtle name, that – which directly leads into the events of Wolfenstein: The New Order. While stealth is always an option, and is sometimes the best way to proceed, the game is generally focused on charging into firefights with guns in one or both hands, pumping rounds of hot American lead into Hitler’s minions.
Over roughly eight hours of play time, you’ll infiltrate locations ranging from a German village to spooky catacombs to Castle Wolfenstein itself, gunning down Nazi soldiers, Nazis in power armour, Nazi dogs (you can tell from their fascist barks), flaming Nazi zombies (naturally) and giant Nazi-controlled blind monster behemoths (obviously.) Blazkowicz, the stoic hero of the long-running Wolfenstein saga. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood plants you in the combat boots of B.
It’s a great deal for the price – as a $25 digital download via the PlayStation Store, the Xbox Games Store and Steam, it’s a rarity in an era when 25 bucks might get you a couple map packs’ worth of downloadable content – but I’ve discovered there’s such a thing as too old-school. As soon as I figure out what all the fuss is about.īecause, to be honest, The Old Blood is just OK.
Mobile users click here to watch a trailer for the game.īut I bet if you look hard enough, you’ll find someone who reviewed the Star Wars prequels without ever seeing the original trilogy, right? And if nothing else, this means I can now play the games in chronological order. And because of that, I’m probably utterly unqualified to talk about this week’s release of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, a standalone prequel expansion that leads into the events of Wolfenstein: The New Order. So it’s with a great deal of shame that I admit I haven’t played last year’s Wolfenstein: The New Order, a contemporary take on Wolfenstein 3D’s simple but exciting shoot-whatever-moves gameplay. And a decade before that there was Castle Wolfenstein on the ancient Apple and Commodore machines, a stealthy action-adventure title that cemented my love of computer games, as I infiltrated Hitler’s lair and blew him to smithereens. Hitler himself.īut this fictional stronghold is the basis for some of my earliest and fondest gaming memories, including gunning down Nazis in 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D, the granddaddy of the first-person shooter genre. Which sounds kind of bad, given that it’s an infamous Nazi fortress, home to all manner of bloodthirsty soldiers, inhuman abominations and a certain A. I have a special relationship with Castle Wolfenstein.
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