Wolfenstein: The New Order Reviews
As the good outweighs the bad, this is certainly worth a punt. Great story, enjoyable gameplay and the key element of fun are littered throughout the game, and are marred only slightly by a few niggling technical issues and rough-edged gameplay in places. A hugely enjoyable ride, just as single-handedly blasting through waves of über-Nazis should be.
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a great reimagining of the series, delivering a fun experience to shooter fans, while bringing a good story and some solid mechanics that feel fresh but still know the roots of the franchise. The stealth could have used a bit of improvement, but Wolfenstein is still a shooter at its heart and works very well in a delightful old-school way.
Some of the content is too coarse for younger audiences, but shooter fans who invest the time in this long (12-15 hour) single-player game will surely enjoy the experience.
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a game that never gets old. Although the game itself will offer you approximately twelve hours of shooting including an engaging story, its great options in difficulty choices and the search for collectibles will add dozens more hours of pure fun. This part is definitely one of the "must-play" games and is one of the best of the entire Wolfenstein series. Today it also has its sequel called Wolfenstein: The New Colossus.
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Wolfenstein: The New Order is enjoyable experience that I wish lasted a bit longer.
Old school has infiltrated new school and this dawns a new era in the legendary Wolfenstein series with The New Order.
Aside from the poor sound editing and occasional lull in the action, this game is a surprising success. When a game is strictly single-player, the story needs to deliver. This story does, plus brings polished gameplay as an FPS. "Wolfenstein: The New Order" is a sleeper hit of 2014.
Let's imagine an alternate video game story, in which Doom continued to sell millions of copies and the enthusiasm for Call of Duty died down inexorably. Wolfenstein: The New Order is like the son of this only imagined era, in which shooters are brutal, violent, direct, made of shots in the face and not headshots, and of gruelling clashes in which quintals of loaders are consumed.
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A successful reboot of a classic that manages to meld game design from the old school FPS days with modern elements, giving players the best of both.
I had to adjust to the quicker than usual speed of the character and didn't expect much from the story for the first two hours, but it grew on me in so many ways I don't usually expect from a FPS. I empathized and cared for the cast of characters, fell in love with the mix of modern and archaic FPS mechanics and features, was taken aback in a fitting way with how the Nazis are portrayed in all their evil and schemes through an unadulterated lens, and so forth.
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a fantastic blend of old-school tropes and contemporary improvements that warrants a second play-through.
[W]hile it may be true that The New Order doesn't really bring that much new to the table, and isn't exactly "retro" either, it does take some of the best of both new and old games and blend them together into a really fun mix. This may not be an instant classic, but it's one of the better first-person shooters I've played in a long time.
Wolfenstein: The New Order is fantastic and one of the best narrative-driven FPS games I have played since Bioshock.
Machine Games mixed an old school shooter with interesting, well-written characters to make something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
Wolfenstein: The New Order surprised me. I didn't expect to like it much, but I found the action fun and the visuals impressive. Performance issues still arise on the PC. Some of those issues, which stem from the id Tech 5 engine, should've been taken care of by now since they were present when Rage first came out in 2011. Overall, a solid action shooter by MachineGames.
Marred only by some barely-sentient AI, The New Order is 16-odd hours of beautiful destruction, and the characters get a look in as well. Recommended.
Great level design, strong replayability, and beautiful graphics more than make up for a sometimes-disjointed plot. The New Order proudly exclaims that Wolfenstein is back, and this new entry should be played by all FPS fans.
Achtung! Wolfenstein: The New Order ist ein sehr gutes spiel. That is to say, it's a really good game. MachineGames has done the series the due service it deserves, delivering a thrilling and immensely entertaining Nazi smashing shooter that demands to be played and savoured.
The game took me about 11 hours to plough through on Normal ("Bring 'Em On"), and with two higher difficulty modes and plenty of secrets to find that can unlock even tougher modes (like Iron Man) there's a lot of replay value - and with that early timeline-altering choice I'll definitely be playing it at least once more. If you've been depressed at the way the FPS genre has declined buy Wolfenstein: The New Order right now and put a Nazi-killing smile on that face.
It's not going to be the best first person shooter you'll play, but it'll be one you remember once it's over.