It’s 1960, and the Nazis have taken over the world. Once-beautiful cities like Berlin and London have been transformed into oppressive urban landscapes. 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. 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. This is the world of Wolfenstein: The New Order, a world where resistance seems futile. 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.
But 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. 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…