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New Wolfenstein Game Announced: The Old Blood

Posted by samzenpus on from the mein-leben dept.

jones_supa writes Last year, Wolfenstein: The New Order was well received, and showed that old school shooters still can do extremely well in the current market and actually be a lot of fun. Now, Bethesda Softworks is already announcing a standalone prequel to The New Order, called Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. It's back to the roots for B.J. Blazkowicz, and you embark on a perilous journey "deep within Bavaria", with the goal of infiltrating the Castle Wolfenstein. Just like last years' game, The Old Blood has been developed by Swedish company MachineGames on the same platform including id Tech 5 engine. The release date is May 5th and the game will be available for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

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  1. What year is it? by zcomuto · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Between looking forward to Doom, Unreal Tournament and now this, it's like the 90s all over again.

  2. Halt! by Guy+From+V · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kommen sie! Ausweis? Heil!

    1. Re:Halt! by dstyle5 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I could be wrong but I think that text is quoting the Apple II game Castle Wolfenstein. I'm guessing it most likely had non-native German speakers writing the dialog.

    2. Re: Halt! by jd2112 · · Score: 2

      Well you did shoot them in the stomach.

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  3. Ausgezeichnet, mehr bitte! by theArtificial · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm big fan of the franchise, especially RTCW (Return to Castle Wolfenstein) and the most recent title was beautiful, just a cool story. They made a great bizarro world where the Nazi's won, I liked the attention to detail Machine Games put into the title. There were some well done spoofs of 60s era songs (polygon has a little on it)

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  4. Sounds great! by Nyder · · Score: 2

    I bought New Order during the Steam sale during the holidays and find the game to be a nice step from the last couple they have done. Graphics are great and I actually found myself liking BJ's character. Story so far has been really good. Very glad I picked it up. If the new one is done as well I might actually not wait for it to be on sale and pick it up after it launches. Providing it's not just a crappy console port like so many games tend to have been for the last decade.

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  5. Re:Wolfenstien by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 2

    If you're playing the original Wolfenstein, you're a bit late to write a review.
    TLDR, it's a classic. The end.

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