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Very minor story spoilers, if you've not played. Nothing regarding the ending. Mostly non-boss enemies you'll face.

Early on a couple years ago when I heard they were making a new Wolfenstein I wasn't very excited. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was okay back in the Xbox days. Nothing special, pretty average shooter. Wolfenstein (2009) was again, nothing special, pretty choppy gameplay, average acting.

When I saw "The New Order" trailer, I was immediately intrigued by the "what if" scenario of the game. What IF the Nazis had WON World War 2? What would the world become? Would it be a utopia paradise of sunshine und rainbows, fair haired children mit blue eyes and good German values? Sauerkraut und bier?!

Or would it become a hell on Earth, a military state where the sick, old and "impure" are rounded up for slaughter and anyone who doesn't tow the Nazi line are put down like dogs?

I think we know the answer... Thank heavens it's only a game!

Right from the first level (which took me more than an hour to complete, on the hardest difficulty - Uber) and the beginning credits rolled, I knew this wasn't going to JUST be a typical shooter. There was something more happening, here. BJ, this hulking Captain America war hero actually has a story? A soul? Yep, and it's actually a pretty deep one.

Through some flashbacks/dreams and a bit of self narration by the always enjoyable Brian Bloom, we find out a good deal more about BJ, his life, and what drives him. And of course the cut scenes also give us both blood-boiling fits of his rage and brute power, but also his softer side that just wants this damn war to be over. He just wants what every soldier wants, to go HOME. To live, to love.

But this is war, and to quote Mr. Perlman: "War? War never changes."

The actual gameplay/shooting mechanics are extremely smooth and intuitive. Best feeling shooter I've played since Call of Duty 4, and I play a LOT of shooters. Not too loose, like CoD has become, not too tight like most other shooters. Good cover/lean system. Action ranges from extremely fast and chaotic to quiet moments, where you can plot your slaughter of the next group of Nazi scum. There is also a pretty solid stealth mechanic to the game as well, where you can sneak up behind any common soldiers (not the Supersoldaten, of course) and execute them silently (but always gruesomely. No mercy from BJ Blaskowicz!).

In addition, early on you gain the ability to throw knives to kill people at range. Surprisingly helpful IN combat if you run out of bullets and need just a second more to get back behind a wall. But nothing is more satisfying than seeing a soldier round a corner you didn't expect, having him start to yell out in fear only to be silenced forever by your spinning knife (fittingly enough, a stolen Nazi dagger).

Combat on its face is a simple concept. You mostly fight common soldiers and commanders. Kill or be killed. But the commanders can call for reinforcements if alarmed, and will spinelessly run as far away from you as possible, making it that much harder for you to find and end them, thus stopping the alarm. Otherwise, soldiers just keep on coming. Sounds annoying, but it isn't. I never felt overwhelmed by the number of additional soldiers called in by the cowardly commanders, but they certainly added a challenge. The whole point of the commander-alarm system is to make you stop and think about your plan of attack. You can certainly go in guns-a-blazing and try to take out the commander (or 2) quick before he has a chance to shriek for help. But the game is at it's most satisfying when you stalk them room to room, just waiting for that perfect moment to sink your knife into their ear-hole. Or throat. Or kidney. :)

Of course, you still fight a myriad of hulking supersoldiers and robot dogs, and one very, VERY big city-overwatch robot. Again, even on Uber I never felt I was being unfairly killed; I just needed to shoot straighter, duck a little more, and always have a back up plan.

The weapon selection is limited to half a dozen guns, but I was never bored with them. Maybe it's because the story itself was so intriguing, or the environments so varied that I never felt I was just running through hallways blasting bad guys with a big gun. The guns, limited though the selection is, are all very well balanced and totally useful in each situation. Whereas in some games, you find a favorite weapon and just stick with it until something better comes along, in nearly every SINGLE level in Wolfenstein I found myself HAVING to use almost every single weapon in my disposal.

One last note, I saw this game was getting solid reviews online. 7s, 8s, etc. I wanted to grab it, but wasn't sure. Wanted to wait for a sale. I looked deeper at the company that developed it (Machinegames) and saw they're made up of some ex-Starbreeze studio members (Chronicles of Riddick series). That instantly made my decision for me, as those games were fantastic. A shooter/adventure with brains. Luckily I also got a gift card for the MS store, so I ended up picking the game up for just $20. Knowing what I know now, I would've bought it day 1 for $60.

Excellent game, and a blueprint for what shooters can actually be if the time and care is put into them to make them more than just mindless shooting.

Bottom line: despite some (very) minor imperfections Wolfenstein is back in a big way. After all these years they're still in the Nazi killin' business, and brother: business is-a boomin'.

One of my favourite war games. It has a interesting story with great characters that you care about. The graphics are overall solid, I like the graphics. The villains are really evil and it feels satisfying when you blow them to hell with your arsenal of weapons. The weapons in the game are awesome and fun to use. There are upgrades for the weapons throughout the game that keeps it good. The game builds up to a ending you won't forget. It is a ending that stays with you.

Wolfenstien the New Order is an AWESOME video game. Even though it may not be the most historically accurate game, it still brilliant and has a unique and almost special gameplay, in the vein of Captain America and Inglorious Basterds.

Definitely being one of the craziest video games I have every played in my life, it's full of surprises. From being extremely violent and humourous, to being emotional and deep. So despite being a larger-than-life hero who kills dozens of Nazis in the most brutal ways possible, the story never loses its heart.

The game takes place in an alternate history where the Nazis won World War II, and have conquered most of the world. You play as war hero B.J Blascowitz who attempts to stop the ruthless scientist General Deathshead, who has created advanced wonder weapons, such as giant robot dogs and mutants who slaughter Allied soldiers on every battlefield, causing Germany to get an upper hand in the war. In order to recover from certain defeat, the Allies plan an massive assault on Deathshead's compound in 1946. During the assault, B.J and his fellow soldiers are captured by Deatshead himself, and B.J is given a difficult decision to chose one of his friends to be experimented on. Fergus or Wyatt. Whoever the player chooses, B.J watches helplessly as his friend is mained at tortured by his arch nemesis. After Deathshead leaves him and his friend (whoever the player let live) to die, they make a daring escape before the lab blows up. Unfortunately, a peice of concrete from the explosion cuts into his brain, leaving him in a vegative state. After being discovered by fishers, Blascowitz is brought to a mental hospital in Poland where he remains for fourteen years. Working at the mental hospital is a beautiful woman by the name of Anya, who takes care of B.J while he's in a vegative state. The year is now 1960, and B.J finally wakes up from his state when Nazis start massacring the patients and staff at the hospital, including Anya's parents. After fighting his way through the hospital and kidnapping a Nazi officer, he escapes with Anya who takes him to her Grandparents's house, where he learns about the outcome of the war. Now learning where the Allies have lost, he interrogates the Nazi officer he took hostage, and threatens him to tell him where the Resistance fighters are, to which he tells B.J that they're in Eidenwald Prison located in Berlin. After recieving this information, B.J travels with Anya to Berlin to free the Resistance member in order to start his revolution of freeing the world from Nazi oppression, and to finally face his opponent Deathshead once again in the ultimate showdown.

I must say, I'm truly impressed with this game. Having never played the older Wolfenstein game, judging by this one, it makes me really wanna. The action is awesome, the story is extremely well-written, and perfectly blends science fiction in this alternate World War II narrative.

Believe me, you're in for real treat.

Hi all - Ratcat your 3D reviewer her. Well sadly this is another game that does not play at all in 3D. Its not that 3D works poorly as I am usually able to make adjustments for shadows out of sync and poorly aligned planes etc but this? No nothing, when tapping on the key I have assigned to switch 3D to 2D and back again nothing happens which tells me this game may have been made for OpenGL. At the start of the Game Blaskowitz is in the cockpit of a plane (actually down in the gunner bay) and amazingly enough, Horten HO 229 flying wings start attacking, these are planes that the Germans built but actually never put into action (thankfully) as it was too late in the war and they were probably almost defeated by then. These are rare virtually little known jets but the US built the B2 Stealth bomber based on their design. Game play was great and faced paced - so well worth the money but there are times when you must shoot through a plethora of soldiers to reach your next objective. There is definitely a fresh feel to this game and plenty of distractions to keep you from being bogged down in same old shooter style typecast including a stealth mission or two. Most games offer a storyline of sorts which you simply cannot understand or find very boring, not so with WTNO - after the prologue you really do understand the story and are given such an impetus to get your revenge and swing the war into your favour. Small puzzles also help to break up the monotony and there are some spicy "Bedroom" scenes but not really 'R' rated. Very enjoyable and perhaps re-playable.

Its a very good game 10/10 but i rated it 7 the reason is that its so short the game such a disapointment would have been the best game ever

I had heard almost nothing about this game but it looked like something I might enjoy, so I was 50/50, but I ended up buying it for the reasonable price of £32 on the PlayStation 4.

So, the first mission takes place in WWII, the mission requires you and a large squad of resistance fighters to assault a Nazi compound in search of an evil Nazi scientist by the name of 'Deathshead'. We're introduced to the main characters, B.J. Blazkowicz (you), Fergus Reid and Private Wyatt. I remember playing through this mission thinking 'if the rest of the game is like this I will love it'. The mission requires you to fight Nazi's in the trenches whilst giant mechanical beasts roam around the compound. It was great, and when the mission came to an end I was looking forward to playing the rest of the game.

The rest of the game is set in the year 1960, you were in a coma for 14 years, and now the Nazi's rule the world. The game does a great job in making the Nazi's actually act like Nazi's: evil, harsh and insane. Every character in the game was developed well and felt like they should be there. The character models look great and the voice acting is excellent.

However, there are some notable features that weren't so good, the first being the controls. In order to switch your weapon you had to hold R1 and select a weapon from the weapon wheel using the analog stick, this was extremely awkward, I had a lot of trouble quickly changing weapon and found that I needed to be very accurate with the stick in order to select the weapon I wanted, it might be just me but I felt it was very awkward. Another thing was the graphics, they're not bad at all, but they're not great either, the lighting is good, weapons and characters faces especially look fantastic, but there are moments where the graphics aren't so good. Most notably the city backgrounds look like 2D pictures compared to close up buildings and the characters fingers and other less important details are blocky.

One thing that I found incredibly annoying and unnecessary was the fact that I needed to press square over a dead enemy's body in order to scavenge bullets and armour, I was constantly inching backwards and forwards tapping square over dead enemies in order to resupply, why? Why couldn't I just automatically pick up bullets as I walked over them?

There are a couple of various glitches in this game, the main one being floating objects, bullets constantly hover in the air, not moving. On the third mission I shot a Nazi commander with the pistol which threw him 5 feet into the air where he remained for the rest of the mission.

But the main factor that annoyed me in this game was the fact that there are two 'different' timelines. Fergus' timeline and Wyatt's. Whoever you save in the first mission determines who's timeline you get. I chose Fergus the first time round (I think everyone did), expecting that if I'd chosen Wyatt instead I would get completely different missions with Wyatt instead of Fergus, I didn't get that. Whoever you choose to save doesn't matter at all, sure one character replaces the other but the only thing that's different is very small changes to the dialogue and cut-scenes and the ability to hot-wire (if you choose Fergus) or pick locks (If you choose Wyatt). That's literally it, the missions are exactly the same.

The game is short, which is bad seeing as it doesn't have multi-player, it's only fairly difficult the first time round (I completed the game on 'I am death incarnate' the 4/5 hardest difficulty in around 10 hours). I completed Wyatt's timeline on the same difficulty in an even shorter time and I'm now on the final mission of 'Uber' difficulty on Fergus' timeline. The game didn't really leave me wanting to play it again.

Don't get me wrong, there are many good things about this game, the most notable being the characters, the characters look good, have good voice actors and act like they should. They all felt necessary and were all very well developed, my personal favourites being Fergus, Set and Caroline.

The story was very good, I enjoyed the cut-scenes, I understood what was going on, there was no 'why am I doing this?' moments which I often experience in other games. Whilst the game is very linear, it's also very enjoyable for the story. Its story is definitely one of its strongest features. You do connect to the characters, I felt sad when Klaus died, I felt bad when I chose Fergus over Wyatt.

This game reminds me of the Metro games a little, the style of the story is very similar (linear but with very small optional side missions).

Overall I'd say whilst the game does have problems and areas to be improved on, the story and characters make up for it. I enjoyed this game and I'd encourage any FPS fan to try it out.