Wolfenstein: The New Order

Bethesda Softworks has today announced Wolfenstein: The New Order, a new instalment in the franchise widely heralded as the grandaddy of the first-person shooter genre.

Under development at MachineGames, Wolfenstein: The New Order is being billed as a "reimagining" of the franchise, promising a "gripping and dramatic experience."

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I looked up Machinegames last night, They got two of the founders of Starbreeze working there.

Honestly I liked the last Wolfenstein. This game look like it's taking it in a completely different direction with mechs. After reading a few solid reviews I'd still play it.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Honestly I liked the last Wolfenstein. This game look like it's taking it in a completely different direction with mechs. After reading a few solid reviews I'd still play it.

Well the Wolfenstein 3D had a mech in it, So not really different

also that last Wolfenstein that got released is it worth checking out?

Originally posted by Kazenji
Well the Wolfenstein 3D had a mech in it, So not really different

also that last Wolfenstein that got released is it worth checking out?

What, in the early 90's with mecha hitler? But this looks like there're many mechs, plus in a world where the Nazi's won ww2.

The last wolfenstein was good, imo. It is worth checking out. To me it was a proper installment. Reviews weren't stellar but i thought it was ok. I had no complaints. I'd give it a solid 7/10.

Concept art screens

http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/14/wolfenstein-the-new-order-concept-art-screens-released/

That robodog looks like a Xeno up close with its teeth.

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Originally posted by Kazenji
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Looks fun. And the story looks good enough to actually be a good live action film.

So if you decide to preorder this game, You will get access to the Doom 4 Beta.

I wonder if Bethesda will be doing that as well instead of ID Software.

No, ID Software is doing Doom 4. If Doom 4 doesn't do well critically or sell I think that's the last we see of ID Software.

I'm looking forward to this game. I like how they decided to create a SP only game. I hope it works out for them but considering they are getting the time to develop the game, I think it will.

Hrm. The budget looks good and the story looks interesting. The gameplay does not grab my interest however. The old school FPS experience looks really dated, with the guns on screen seemingly jarring. It reminds me a lot of Perfect Dark, and that's not a good thing in this sense because the level of immersion suffers from it. And by that I mean the guns just look so static and take up too much screen space like older FPS games. Hopefully one can adjust the FOV to compensate a bit.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Hrm. The budget looks good and the story looks interesting. The gameplay does not grab my interest however. The old school FPS experience looks really dated, with the guns on screen seemingly jarring. It reminds me a lot of Perfect Dark, and that's not a good thing in this sense because the level of immersion suffers from it. And by that I mean the guns just look so static and take up too much screen space like older FPS games. Hopefully one can adjust the FOV to compensate a bit.

Personally i like the more old school FPS style as i'm getting sick the generic military shooters nowadays.

I think a lot of people are in the same boat.

Will it mean success, who knows. Bulletstorm was pretty good game and a total reversal to generic military shooters and didn't sell all that well.

Oi... That gives me kind of a bad feeling about Wolfenstein and Doom then, about them possibly not selling that well because they're not CoD enough.

But yeah, what Kazenji said in the last post, and that's good to hear about ID still doing Doom at least.

Well, the problem with ID is that they have done one game since Doom 3 and that was Rage. I didn't mind Rage but it wasn't as good as it could be.

I saw a gameplay video today, I think it looks kind of cool.

In the comments, people were saying it was a generic shooter...

No offense to anybody but what shooter is not generic? How many new ideas can you bring to the FPS genre. As long as it's done well, I think that's all that matters. We don't look at movies the same way. A horror movie is a horror movie but if its done well, that's all that matters.