It's set pieces are fantastic, delivering proper spectacle while remaining grounded enough that it didn't feel like the game was just trying to one-up itself at every turn.

Save for a little bit in the late-middle where I felt things dragged a bit, the campaign was consistently entertaining and kept me wanting more. A few robotic dogs and evil psychopaths later, and Blazkowicz gets put in a vegetative state. BJ and his squad of fighters are tasked with infiltrating a Nazi stronghold towards the end of WWII. The story in Wolfenstein: The New Order starts off like a fairly standard Wolfenstein adventure in its prologue mission. MachineGames has done an excellent job crafting a story that both honors the themes of games past and acts as a fantastic entry point for newcomers. Though there have been quite a few games already released in the series, the story being told here is very self-contained.

The New Order largely leaves the paranormal side of that behind, instead playing much more as a science fiction adventure. Along with standard soldiers, Blazkowics has also taken down robotic animals, mechs, ghosts, zombies, and more in his decades-old quest against the Third Reich. The kicker is, in the world of Wolfenstein, the Nazis have a penchant for the paranormal and scientifically fictitious. J.” Blazkowicz, a Jewish American soldier tasked with taking on the Nazis. To those unfamiliar with the franchise, the Wolfenstein series focuses on rough-and-tumble commando William “B. I went in expecting a game that would let me turn of my brain and enjoy the ride, but it instead drew me in and kept me engaged through excellent characters, a worth-while story, and a world I still want to see more of. Don't get me wrong, it's still very much about running around like a badass dual wielding machine guns to shoot everything with a swastika on it, but it's also got an unexpected amount of heart. That being said, MachineGames' Wolfenstein: The New Order surprised me. I mean that in the world of internet leaks, gameplay clips, and preview articles it's become rare for a game to surprise the world with what exactly it is. I don't mean in terms of quality – that happens all the time. It's a lot harder for a game to be surprising than it once was.

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