![]() ![]() ![]() One thing that surprised me about New Order is how much it embraces its setting. At the same time, though, it makes excellent use of its setting through a thousand little world-building touches and some hugely above-average characters and writing to get you invested in the bits that happen in between the Nazi killing, i.e. – and it supplies them in a familiar and well-polished form. It has all the violent things you’d expect from a Wolfenstein - killing Nazis with knives, killing Nazis with guns, killing Nazis with lasers, blowing up Nazis etc. Perhaps it’s the contrast with the traditional comic-book nature of the series (and New Order is no exception to this) but I think this newest Wolfenstein game has turned out to be one of the smartest, most expertly assembled shooters I’ve played in a good long while. What you might not be expecting, however, is for New Order to add an additional word onto the end of that list, and that word is: Historically this little collection of verbs has been all the series has ever reached for it’s been content not to take itself too seriously in its Nazi-slaughtering exploits, and focuses instead on providing simple, low-brainpower fun. If you asked me to pick words to describe the latest entry in the Wolfenstein series, the chances are you could probably predict most of them before I’d even said anything. I will try to get something up this week. 09/06/14 – Xenonauts is taking a very long time for me to crack, mostly due to my being unable to decide whether the funding system is unnecessarily harsh or just outright broken (currently leaning towards the latter). ![]()
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