To honor their fallen members and liberate America, Billy decides to light a fire that will ignite a revolution within those too afraid to stand up to the oppressive regime. The game begins with the stakes raised incredibly high as Frau Engel has found the Kreisau Circle’s submarine and dealt a major blow to the resistance. Blazkowicz has been in a five-month long coma. There aren’t a lot of first-person shooters that offer this type of variety in their gameplay.Īfter his near-dearth experience at the end of the New Order, B.J. It’s more time consuming and methodical than just running through, but I like taking out the enemy without them knowing I was even there. Enemies can be distracted with a silenced pistol shot and then snuck up from behind and beaten with a hatchet. I personally like to stealth through games when possible, and it was extremely satisfying to do so in Wolfenstein. Ample supplies of ammo can be found everywhere and looted off of dead bodies. Even better, any combination of these can be dual-wielded.
An arsenal of weapons is at your disposal, from silenced pistols to laser cannons, all available to upgrade. Whether you go balls to the wall and mercilessly annihilate everything in your path or sneak through levels to quietly take out your enemies, you’ll find that Wolfenstein II accommodates your preferred playstyle.
It’s a linear game, but it’s designed so it doesn’t feel like it. Ladders and crawl spaces can also lead to secret passageways that can be used to avoid clusters of enemies. Fully exploring these locations will reward you with a number of hidden collectibles and upgrades. Another mission has you go to a secret Nazi facility in Roswell that looks industrial and pristine. One of the first levels has you travel to Manhattan, which looks like it was pulled straight out of Fallout after the bombs dropped. The level design of certain areas is breathtaking, with large set pieces that really draw you into the game. To act like this is some sort of timely reactionary political statement-though it certainly is political-is to forget that this has been the series’ identity since the beginning. Whether or not white supremacists were openly rallying, Wolfenstein II was always going to showcase sadistic Nazi villains and vicious ways to kill them. While some of the game’s promotional material heavily played into our current political climate, the game itself touches upon the specifics less. Nazi ideology shouldn’t be prevalent enough to make this a controversial stance, but sadly it is. The New Colossus takes a hard stance on these types of people by unequivocally saying they don’t belong in America, even if they are portrayed as over-the-top caricatures at times. No matter how small the groups may seem, even one Nazi is one too many. Actual neo-Nazis and white supremacists are walking our streets, emboldened by hateful, dangerous rhetoric. Wolfenstein II releases at a time where its message-that is: Nazis are evil-is badly needed. Wolfenstein is back and better than ever with this newest entry. The New Colossus was teased at E3 2016, but it wasn’t until this year that we received our first look at it.
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Capping off a remarkable marketing campaign, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus delivers on Bethesda and MachineGames’ promise of a brutal world full of Nazis just waiting to be slaughtered.