Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition

bluntly speaking TNC is written like a movie, not a game. It tries to humanize its protagonist as a person with deep trauma while forgetting that his primary narrative purpose is killing nazis. The game opens with a long cutscene about his traumatic childhood and then, at the outset debuffs his health to try and force you to use stealth. the stealth gameplay is miserable, there will be lengthy and reasonably decent stealth segments ended with seige runs that start you off without any armor causing long, frustrating bouts of flailing as you try and figure out how to survive the latest action set piece. this game placed its mechanics secondary to its story and forgot that it came from a genre about blowing up mad scientist laboratories and killing nazis. As onboard as I am with black panther hackers helping me destroy nazi facilities I cannot say this is a good game. buy it on sale or not at all. the gun play is better than new order but its undermined by the fact that most of the game takes place with your health locked below 50 with armor pickups being scarce and the stealth gameplay being unforgiving and often impossible.

Wolfenstein 2 might not be as innovative as the previous game but it's still a great shooter with that juicy B-movie action vibe to it. With the right hardware, the game runs butter smooth and the actual shooting is awesome. Gory, pulsating and full of adrenaline although maybe a tad too easy at times. Blasko is now en route to America in an attempt to rid it of the nazi regime and the local henchmen (the Klan). The game sometimes feels like a love letter to Tarantino movies and sometimes it's just weird in it's change of pace and tone but for the FPS lovers it's a solid recommendation.

I knew the game's reputation, I knew what I was getting into, I went in with an open mind and low expectations, ready to accept the game for what it is: A mindless Nazi-Killing Power Fantasy. Every thing bad I heard about the game was true, yet, I got some enjoyment out of it, I got what I paid for, I wasn't disappointed... but, nothing could have mentally prepare me for that ending. No epic final confrontation, no last minute revelation, not even a nice cutscene at the end. Two particularly big Nazis in Power Armor, a lame last confrontation with the "very big bad nazi woman" that might as well be a cutscene, followed by a weak rallying speech, credits, back to hub to complete side missions in reused locations. Is there more after that? I don't know, I don't care! after such dissapointment I can't muster enought will power to even boot the game again and find out. Instead, I wrote this review, only to rant about it. I won't even bother with Young Blood.

Well, 'm going to write two reviews, one for this version (the one I purchased) and other for the base game. After an incredible reboot with The New Order and The Old Blood, Machine Games make a comeback with The New Colossus, is an incredible good shooter, the gunplay is great, the weapons sounds feel powerful, the story is really interesting and the characters well develop (with a few exception). The problem is in the gameplay, they try to copy the Doom 2016 gameplay, but they omit the health system of that game, what make you run like a b*tch every time you are low on health and need some bandages. So that make it inferior to it's predecessors. One negative point of this version (and that's why the deluxe edition diserves 3 and not a4 stars) are the DLC, fells like a cashgrab, are boring and short, so if you want to skip them, you won't lose anything!!!