That mission goes terribly awry, and in the fallout, Blazkowicz is gravely injured by a piece of shrapnel that lodges itself in his skull. Blazkowicz and his band of brothers are sent to destroy the base occupied by the Nazi war machine's current leader, General Deathshead. In this game's timeline, World War II is still raging, and the Nazis have suddenly started surging across Europe thanks to a wealth of terrifying new technology. At the start, Blazkowicz finds himself in the middle of a D-Day-flavored raid on a massive Nazi compound.in 1946. The New Order once again puts you in the blood-soaked boots of William 'BJ' Blazkowicz, the lump of gun-holding meat that has starred in pretty much every version of Wolfenstein ever made. Nazis need killin'? Time to call BJ Blazkowicz. Yet The New Order mostly succeeds by virtue of how good the moments of character and world building you do get are, and by how rock solid the gameplay tends to be. It's a game that often feels like it's in a gigantic hurry to get the player to the next bout of Nazi killing, often at the expense of the character and world building the developers were clearly striving for.

The New Order never quite settles on a consistent tone, nor does it often seem willing to afford its much-better-than-average characters enough time to really establish themselves to the player.

Which isn't to suggest that The New Order is successful in all of these areas. All the copious blood splatter and limb-exploding tech is joined by greater focuses on characterization, on pulpy sci-fi stylization, and, most importantly, on memorable storytelling. That's certainly one piece of The New Order, but developer MachineGames builds upon that core idea in several different ways. First and foremost, it is yet another update of id Software's enduring Wolfenstein franchise, a series mostly defined by its core concept of you shooting Nazis in the face. Wolfenstein: The New Order is a lot of things.

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