Now Playing: How Wolfenstein: The New Order is Keeping It Old-Schoolīlazkowicz returns as the other end of your gun arm in The New Order, and he still isn't the kind of bullet sponge other modern shooter protagonists feel like. Sure, you eventually found that giant gun from the front of the box, but the sense of tension that persisted as every bright blue door creaked open stemmed from your inherent vulnerability.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

If you were very low on health, you could even drink human blood off the floor to feel a bit better. You were a prisoner of war, escaping from a castle's cell with nothing but a knife, and subsisting on leftover chicken drumsticks and bowls of dog food.

The image misrepresented the actual experience. BJ Blazkowicz featured as the barrel-chested hero on the front of the box, shooting a giant gun at the roof (for some reason) and kicking a Nazi in the face. Wolfenstein 3D was far more challenging than today's over-the-top shooters. Developer MachineGames isn't just making an old-school shooter here it's making an old-school Wolfenstein game. In the game's prologue, which runs for just over an hour, you'll gun down Nazis in a grey stone castle, find a secret room behind a portrait on the wall, and plunder Nazi treasure for extra points. Wolfenstein: The New Order doesn't forget this. If Doom means two things, cocking shotguns and shooting demons, it follows that Wolfenstein, the father of the first-person shooter and Doom's own daddy, can be boiled down to two core elements as well: shooting Nazis, and taking their secret Nazi gold.

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