Good doggy…Īs good as the story is, the gameplay is even better. If you are considering Wolfenstein as a last gen purchase, you might want to research it a little first. If this was a problem on PlayStation 4, I can’t imagine how bad it was on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This is just another thing that seems silly to me. It’s as if the PlayStation 4 couldn’t load the textures fast enough or something. One more texture issue I had happen quite a bit is that new levels, areas, etc.

It is easy to look past because, like I said, it is all very insignificant stuff but in the end it silly that we still have things like this. This happens all over the place in the game. The example I have in mind is when you are in the resistance’s homebase exploring, all of the kitchenware, boxes, books, folders, etc laying around look horrible compared to everything else. Textures for the less important objects in the game were either 2D or just not up to date with what you would expect on a current generation console. That being said, Machine Games really took the easy way out with just about everything insignificant. Character models, views from a distance, and important objects (robots) were beautiful on screen. Wolfenstein: The New Order looked absolutely fantastic on PlayStation 4. The story may have been a little crazy at times, but it was so fun that it was worth it. Wolfenstein: The New Order had cutscenes before, during, and after each mission and there was almost always a familiar voice on the other end of a radio during each mission as well. It is not your typical first person shooter where the story is told in a two minute cutscene between missions. I believe that Machine Games achieved this by the way they told the story. I found myself caring far more for characters than I thought I would as well. For some reason I thought that Wolfenstein was going to be funny, and instead found out that it is a very serious game, to the point that it was actually really touching during some scenes. And boy does it accomplish what it set out to do. It’s not just trying to act like the Nazis won the war, it wants to make it fun by imagining what it would be like if they had giant robot guard dogs, AT-AT ( Star Wars) like robots, and exoskeleton suits during the 1940s-60s. But that is what it is trying to achieve. Yes, Wolfenstein: The New Order has an over-the-top story. The rest of the story is about Blazkowicz finding a resistance group and fighting back against the Nazi tyrannical rule and their sci-fi weaponry. During that time, Germany has won the war and is now in control of the entire world, more or less.įinally, after slowly regaining his consciousness and motor skills, he gets up just in time to save the young nurse who had been taking care of him for the last decade. After fighting their way through the warzone, Blazkowicz ends up injured and in a vegetative state for 14 years. One event leads to another, and they end up right smack dab in the middle of the war. The New Order starts off in 1946 with Captain William Blazkowicz (the protagonist) and his pilot Fergus Reid as they are flying through a World War II aircraft dogfight. So did Wolfenstein: The New Order quench my thirst for a good alternate history game? I know what you’re thinking: I don’t deserve the right to review a game with such a rich history since this will only be my first in the line well I did anyways.

But I was excited when I found out that it is an alternate history first person shooter. In fact, I had never even heard of Wolfenstein until this one was announced last year.

I seem to be one of the few people in existence that has never played a Wolfenstein game. Wolfenstein: a nostalgic title for gamers the world over, just not for me.

2022.09