Here you interact with your colleagues in the Resistance, embark on little side quests, hone your shooting in the shooting gallery, and set up the next main mission. Weapons - which can be upgraded using kits you find lying about - don't really favour sneaking around, and many of the bigger enemies can only be taken down by blasting away.Īdditionally, the action is broken up with intermission stages set on a huge submarine base. However, the actual gunplay feels more like the recent Doom reboot than anything - but Wolfenstein II doesn't seem to always allow for that. You're encouraged to seek out enemy commanders - and execute them before they can raise the alarm, sending troops swarming your position. On the default difficulty and higher, this is a punishing game. Part of the issue for me was a sort of conflict at the core of the game between stealth and all-out blasting. Even then, it still sort of slips back into the same rhythm, and the suits don't have as big an impact on the gameplay as I'd have wanted. Unfortunately, it feels like the game only really gets going in its second half - when you are asked to make a choice between three unique exoskeletons (a pair of telescoping legs, a harness that constricts your body, and one that lets you to slam through grates and enemies) which allow access to new areas of the levels. There are solid reasons to play through more than once (bonus "assassination missions" after the main story ends, and certain in-game choices that affect the story). No massive installation! I put the disc in and could play immediately!ģ. Nevertheless, let's get a few positives out of the way so that I can spend the remainder of this review just moaning and complaining, because me so edgy:ġ.
but probably takes even longer to start shining. Somehow, this fictional, tongue-in-cheek scenario does a far more effective job of exploring the true nature of fascism than the recent Call of Duty: WW2.Īfter a shaky start, I really grew to like Wolfenstein: The New Order, and The New Colossus is much the same. The scariest end-point scenario of this is what The New Colossus explores through the continuing adventures of BJ Blaskowicz an America in the 1960s, after the Nazis won the Second World War by nuking New York into oblivion. Unfortunately, hidden behind those anxieties are many who genuinely would be fine with a return of gas chambers and labour camps. They piggyback on the genuine concerns and anxieties of regular people, those less politically motivated, who are simply looking out for themselves. They hide in plain sight, the vast majority disguised behind day jobs or media-friendly soundbites, which say just enough without actually saying what they really mean. They don't goose-step around the place shouting "Sieg Heil!". They don't wear the funny uniforms, like the Nazis I grew up with. It isn't just Poland of course far-right ideology is spreading across the world, and too many powerful people - politicians, the media - are willing to embrace it, or at least turn a blind to it, for ratings or votes.įor me, the thing that's scary is that the new Nazis look like regular people. Between 60,000 and 100,000 people took to the streets to call for a "white Europe". Why, just this past weekend there was a far-right rally in Poland. Somewhere along the way, to a certain disenfranchised generation, Hitler's ideology became cool again.īetween the release of 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order and the release of The New Colossus, Nazis stopped being comedy bad guys, and were exposed as a legitimate threat in the real world. By poking fun at Hitler, by turning him into a figure of mockery, it stripped him - and, by association, the Nazis - of power. In a way, a lot of that felt like a post-WW2 exhalation of breath.
Heck, Spike Milligan was rarely out of a Hitler costume.Įven 'Allo 'Allo portrayed Nazis as bumbling idiots, backstabbing one another over a painting of The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies, which gets hidden inside a knackwurst sausage. The Pythons had a sketch where "Mr Hitler" ran in the North Minehead by-election.
When I was a kid, all my favourite shows poked fun at Nazis The Young Ones did a gag where Lenny Henry dressed up as a Hitler postman. Do you know what I miss? I miss the days when Nazis were funny.
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