Platform: Xbox One
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Price I Paid: £20
Wolfenstein got a reboot! So is Doom! Anyone up for a Fantasy World Dizzy reboot? No...alright then, we'll settle for the Wolfenstein reboot. Now, before we begin, I should point out I played the game on ÜBER mode for the first few missions until I learnt that you just have to play the last mission to unlock the difficulty achievements. Which is good because the game is hard, a nice change from the mindless tat I usually play.
So yes, the game is challenging, with skill trees sort of things involved, you do different tasks to unlock a perk from the skill tree, which also unlocks you an achievement. For example, you can unlock a demolition perk by killing two enemies with one grenade, which unlocks a perk and 20G. Lots of good perks to unlock, but you can't put certain points into certain things, which isn't that big of a deal when most of the challenges are simplistic enough for everyone to accomplish. Especially with the promise of Gamerscore it made me want to go after all perks.
The guns in the game are, to be honest, a bit lacking, there's a couple guns, nothing extraordinary, you have the usual stuff, knife, pistol, machine gun, shotgun, sniper rifle, tesla grenade and laser cutter. All have a good variety to them and ammo can be found everywhere, while at the same time you'll find that it can be very scarce and you'll be forced to use all the weapons at some point in your playthrough. Some weapons have upgrades, such as the pistol allowing you to use a silencer and the laser cutter being upgraded to a machine gun.
Graphically speaking, yeah, it's nice, I like the games graphics. Blazkowicz isn't a bland character, he isn't the dashing, charming and funny character we want, that role is delegated to Fergus Reid (if you picked him which you should have done). I don't know about Wyatt, I haven't played through his campaign yet, but from what I've gathered he isn't as funny as Reid and isn't as good as him either.
Missions can be finished in a variety of ways, well, not really. Stealth or guns blazing. Usually goes the same way, try and be stealthy by taking out the officers, accidentally miss your shot or takedown and end up slaughtering an entire legion of German troops. The game does include a nice variety of soldiers, from regular ones, officers, mecha death robots, dogs and bigger mecha death robots! Each with a varying difficulty of defeating, soldiers being the easiest, mecha death robots being the hardest.
My only complaint with the game is for the choice you make at the start of the game, I was expecting more choices like that, but I was disappointed when I found out that that was basically the only major choice in the game. A neat little thing is the Nightmares, allowing you to play through classic Wolfenstein levels from the original game, which was really fun.
Well, I do have another complaint. The London Nautica Robot. I never want to play that mission again, you could not force me to play that mission, even if you paid me, gave me things or said it was for 20,000G. I refuse to ever play that mission again, it was SO annoying, you'll see what I mean when you get this game.
Also, if you're a completionist of games like me, you'll be wanting the UBER Difficulty achievement, this doesn't mean you have to play through the whole game on the hardest difficulty, just the last mission, which I learnt the hard way, I haven't gotten the achievement yet, but I will do sooner or later because the last mission is literal bullet hell.
Overall, Wolfenstein is very fun, I'm glad to see a reboot has gone so well, especially for such a well respected series.
Wolfenstein: The New Order gets a 9/10
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