This isn't just a convenient plot device to bring the majority of the game's action into the Nazi-controlled world of 1960. The Blazkowicz that emerges into this strange new world is still the same Blazkowicz of Wolfenstein 3D: a blunt instrument. He spends the next 14 years in a vegetative state, recovering in a Polish mental institution. The operation goes awry, and Blazkowicz takes a piece of shrapnel in the head. Blazkowicz spearheads a last-ditch assault on the new, heavily fortified headquarters of the Third Reich. Despite the Fuhrer's demise, the Allies are losing. The first few hours of The New Order take place in 1946.

Now Playing: Wolfenstein: The New Order - Video Review The New Order's visual design captures the drab and depressing nature of life under Nazi control. Can a Wolfenstein game in 2014 marry the bombastic action and narrative drive of today's shooters with the series' own simple pleasure of shooting Nazis in the face? With this fresh and interesting setting, powerful and satisfying weapons, and a new, robotics-focused take on the Nazi war machine, developer MachineGames, formed by ex-Starbreeze veterans, has figured out how to answer these questions.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's But there is one man who is up to the task: William 'BJ' Blazkowicz-the same Blazkowicz who escaped Castle Wolfenstein, shot a lot of Nazis, and took down Mecha Hitler in 1992's Wolfenstein 3D.īut what is Wolfenstein's place today? The series spawned the first-person shooter genre, but like The New Order's alternate-history setting itself, times have changed. This is the world of Wolfenstein: The New Order, a world where resistance seems futile. The streets are patrolled by technological terrors-Nazi mechs and robotic guard dogs, whose imposing grey forms against the drab grey concrete are broken only by the deep red of Nazi banners. Propaganda posters are plastered over miles of depressing concrete, while loudspeakers echo the doctrine of the Nazis' totalitarian regime and the punishments that follow for breaking it. Once-beautiful cities like Berlin and London have been transformed into oppressive urban landscapes. It's 1960, and the Nazis have taken over the world.

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