Wolfenstein: The New Order – A fight to stop the Nazis from controlling the world | Review

Wolfenstein: The New Order is a first-person action game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game released on May 20, 2014 for PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One is the seventh main title in the Wolfenstein series and a sequel to 2009's Wolfenstein, set in Europe during the 1960s in a story that tells the victorious Nazi Germany of the Second World War. The narrative follows American soldier BJ Blazkowicz and his efforts to stop the Nazis from controlling the world.

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The game's plot begins by showing us a Nazi Germany employing advanced technologies to defeat the Allies in World War II. In July 1946, US soldier Captain BJ Blazkowicz, accompanied by British pilot Fergus Reid and US private Probst Wyatt III, participates in a massive attack on a fortress and weapons research facility managed by German General Wilhelm “Deathshead” Strasse. The three are captured and taken to a human experimentation laboratory, where Deathshead forces Blazkowicz to choose which of his two companions to kill, then tossing him and the survivor into an incinerator to die. They manage to escape, but Blazkowicz suffers a head wound and falls into a coma. He is taken to a psychiatric asylum in Poland and remains in a vegetative state for fourteen years, being cared for by nurse Anya Oliwa and her parents. Blazkowicz, unable to wake up, watches as Anya's parents are regularly forced to hand over patients to Nazi authorities, who consider them untermensch (inferior people) for their mental deficiencies.

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Wolfenstein: The New Order starts with a frantic environment, lots of action in both gameplay and cutscenes. Get ready to face an infantry of robotic dogs and highly technological weapons for the time. The gameplay is simple with no difficulty, the graphic is very simple, but the most advanced at the time of the game's launch and that doesn't leave anything to be desired. Due to the historical context of the game, many may believe that it is more of a game set in the second world war like any other, but it is not. The setting of this game is incredible and different from many games with the same theme, the missions are diverse and without repetitions of the environment, the atmosphere is suspenseful in many moments of the game, no conflict all the time. In the course of the plot you acquire collectibles that can be seen in the game menu along with a fixed tutorial tab that can help the player throughout the entire game.

Wolfenstein: The New Order has a serious problem in artificial intelligence and in the collection of objects in the scene, it is often almost impossible to see which object can be collected or not, so always look around you very carefully. The game is entirely in English, it can be bad for many and an opportunity for those who want to train their English.

Wolfenstein: The New Order is a highly entertaining game with a different take on the historical context.

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