Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Wolfenstein: The New Colossus is a fantastic mix of great action gameplay combing modern and traditional shooter mechanics, a strong cast of fun characters, and a story actually daring to put the still ongoing threat of fascism front and center for the audience to behold. Yes, it's "alternative history", but one deliberately evoking the bygone era of late 50's/early 60's America and showcasing how disturbingly comfortable many people would be Nazism prevailing. It's best encapsulated with the main character's father, who whines about the coloreds and the Jews and the queers keeping him down while abusing his own family. He's not a Nazi, but happily supports them after they conquer America, as do many other bigots and cowards who don't fall into one of the groups marked for extermination. Rank and file Nazi soldiers are humanized in a way that does NOT detract from their atrocities and instead serve as a stark reminder that "normal" people are capable of heinous acts when what's "normal" is so horrible. It's true to history as a common defense of concentration camp guards was they were "only doing their job". By bringing the focus closer to home, in an "alternate" America with dashes of the modern world slipped in, it unnerves those who prefer to remain willfully ignorant and only see the threat of Nazism as something far away and defeated long ago. It's also just a fun game in its own right, with a wide variety of fun, upgradable weapons and new abilities to slaughter Nazis with. It's not perfect by any means. There's issues with pacing out your new abilities, I'm not a fan of the "perk" system, and stealth is very wiggy compared to previous games. But I'm hard pressed to think of a better way to get catharsis after being forced to glimpse the horrors of Nazism then dual-wielding triple-barreled shotguns and turning them into a fine red paste! Also the standard edition is likely a better value. The DLC episodes are just too thin to justify the price for most.

This game like a previous New Order and Old Blood are fantastic. Simple enough. Waiting now for Wolfenstein 3, maybe next year.

This game is a very good single player fps with an interesting story and smooth gameplay.

As someone that was highly abused as a kid, I didnt appreciate the start at all....WTF. I tried to push anything to make it skip but nope.....you gotta do this shyt? Then after reliving personal trauma i finally get to play the game for a few minutes before the UBER BOSS showed up and MDK'D me many times over i think it was my game dad in power armor....THE END. Thanks for the memories you gross people.....THE END!!!!!

Don't listen to the hogs who don't like looking at themselves in a mirror. The fact that killing nazis is "woke" now, is pathetic and you should be ashamed.