Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Reviews
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a brave title that addresses some of the harshest realities of our time through the skewed lens of satire. It doesn’t take long, to realise that as far-fetched as The New Colossus seems, it might be just around the corner.
MachineGames has once again knocked it out of the park. Ever since The New Order, they’ve been a developer to look out for, topping all the Wolfenstein games that came before. Now they’ve shown they can surpass even their own work. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a blast to play, with exciting combat, a phenomenal cast of characters and an incredibly eery mirror portrayal of our worst real-world fears, come to life. Throw in some crazy attention to detail and a whole lot of polish, and you get a game that is bursting at the seams with style and design, ready to wow you at every turn. On top of all that is a story that honours everything that came before, while still making its own mark on the franchise.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a stand-out, weird shooter, even if the game never becomes innovative enough to be extraordinary. The title functions excellently as a sequel and will provide a good 13-hour experience, but remains conservative in its gameplay, if not its politics. However, as a stand-alone experience, Wolfenstein II is a thoroughly entertaining FPS. The shooting holds up, the upgrade system encourages different forms of play, and at no point does the game feel like a grind. Wolfenstein II is smart to continue using the stealth mechanic from its predecessor, even though the system is still too unforgiving in its design. The big hurdle for many will be the heightened, unrealistic quality of the characters and the world, but if players can handle the oddness, they will be rewarded with some touching human moments in an insane, backwards world.
The new sequel fulfils beautifully its role and is one of the greatest First-Person Shooters of the decade. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus offers a unique experience - even if it uses older assets - and deserves to be played by any fan of the genre.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The New Colossus continues to improve the MachineGames formula and bring needed changes to mechanics we saw with The New Order to create a wonderful shooter. Unfortunately the learning curve can feel too steep even for some experienced FPS players and elements like stealth take the backseat in this sequel.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
With The New Colossus, MachineGames has created a very complete game, in which everything has been processed unabashedly. The stereotypical characters are brutal, the humor is sharp and the story offers depth but remains nice and simple. In terms of gameplay, the game offers you the same as the previous part: shooting Nazis in the face!
Review in Dutch | Read full review
In one scene you can be in an ultra-serious situation dealing with someone on the brink of suicide and in another a laugh-out-loud comedy, and that’s what Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is about. It brings together these outstandingly written and acted characters to life within a bleak world where death can happen at any time.
Playing Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus on the Nintendo Switch is something I never thought would be possible based on the hardware limitations of the platform. The framerate and visual fidelity have been scaled back to get it to run on the system and provide a great end user experience, but the whole game is here. The full Wolfenstein 2 experience (minus the DLC) is here to enjoy wherever you please. And after getting used to navigation and shooting with the Joy-Cons, the game feel’s right at home on the Switch and further cement’s it as a serious gaming console.
This is a world defined by a very different turn of events from World War II, one where the Nazis defeated the United States and dropped an atomic bomb on New York among other things...
Wolfenstein 2 is an insane ride that starts strong and never lets go.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a fun shooter game.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus delivers on its promises. It's more of the same, but there are more weapons, more tools, and more Nazis to kill. In some ways, it's slightly disappointing in that the mechanics aren't more creative to go with the excesses in the plot, but a safe sequel isn't a bad thing. If you enjoyed The New Order or its spin-off The Old Blood, you'll enjoy Wolfenstein II. It hits all the right marks of the original, and any flaws are minor and don't detract from the all-important task of blowing up Nazis. Sometimes, that's all a game needs to be.
From gunplay to story, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus does a lot of things right. And it's the perfect game at the perfect time.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus isn't too different from the last installment but it makes up for that by presenting excellent visual/audio design and strong encounter design. fps fans will be delighted.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus takes The New Order and multiplies everything tenfold (especially the silliness and the amount of cut-scenes) when it should just take the original and carefully build upon its foundation, smoothing its rough edges and offering the very best Wolfenstein game ever. The result is a FPS that's fun, but also one that doesn't really know what it wants to be.
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a brutal journey in an alternative history world. It is one of the finest shooter released this generation offering plenty of adrenaline fueled action.
Even though the most memorable moments in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus don't involve much in the way of player input, it remains a satisfying story-driven shooter that that eschews major gameplay updates in favor of a greater focus on its bold storytelling and characters.
Also, you can hurl an axe across the map into an unsuspecting Nazi's face, and that's sure to brighten anyone's day.
Bigger, bolder and somehow a hell of a lot more outlandish than The New Order, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus' imperfections do little to hold the game back from being one of the most compelling single player games of the year.
For any person that enjoys deep, detailed, and deranged solo gaming experiences you will find no better than The New Colossus.