Wolfenstein: The New Order short review

Because I’m lazy as fuck, I’ll try to make my short reviews even more compact. This will be my first attempt, but I might refine it even further over time 😀

POSITIVES

• amazing presentation of alternate reality World War 2
• presentation of story through game is really interesting and engaging
• very engaging gameplay with stealth and/or mad Rambo “modes”
• skills force you to utilize more arsenal depending on what skills you want
• nostalgic original Wolfenstein 3D levels via Nightmare levels
• generally good graphics and audio
• has FOV controls

NEGATIVES

• stop taking my bloody weapons away all the freaking time!
• because of losing weapons every mission, most skills like extra throwing knives can’t even be used properly
• constantly getting stuck inside vents for no logical reason
• texture pop-in effect is infuriating
• game knows no anti-aliasing and refuses to accept from graphics driver control panel (had to use SweetFX SMAA to improve edges slightly)
• half an hour of stupid unskippable intro videos

VERDICT

Brilliant game gameplay, story and presentation wise that is somewhat ruined with technicalities like horrendous texture pop-in when looking around, complete lack of anti-aliasing, getting stuck inside vents into invisible barriers and god awful losing of weapons on every mission and every major incident during game. Would still highly recommend it because it’s still a very good shooter despite those negatives. A true successor to the original Wolfenstein 3D.