Thursday, July 27

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus—Like playing a B-movie with robot Nazis

Video captured/edited by Mark Walton.


In Wolfenstein: The New Order, which tells the story of an alternate history where the Nazis win the Second World War, veteran William "B.J." Blazkowicz awakens from a coma to find the Nazis have acquired the technology to build giant killer robots powered by the brains of fallen soldiers.

In an effort to stop the Nazis, B.J. infiltrates a Nazi research facility, stealing its flagship nuclear submarine only to find that the codes to operate it are hidden on the Moon. Naturally, Blazkowicz proceeds to the Moon, before returning to Earth to fight the robotic reincarnation of a former soldier.

As stories go, The New Order's—even for a video game—is wonderfully ludicrous. But that raises a question for the sequel. When you've already battled giant killer robots and travelled to the Moon, just where do you go from there? The answer, in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, is travelling to the most ridiculous, confusing, and downright terrifying place on earth: the good ol' US of A.

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