Posted on: February 7, 2025
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Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Description
Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood is a standalone prequel to the critically acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein®: The New Order. The adventure, which spans eight chapters and two interconnected stories, features the hallmarks of MachineGames – thrilling action, immersive story and intense first-person combat. As war hero B.J. Blazkowicz, arm yourself with new weapons such as the bolt-action rifle and grenade-launching Kampfpistole as you attempt to thwart the advancing Nazi war machine, and take advantage of duel-wielding pipes that can be used for wall climbing – or for vicious take-downs of never-before-seen Nazi adversaries.
Part one of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - Rudi Jäger and the Den of Wolves - pits BJ Blazkowicz against a maniacal prison warden as he breaks into Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to steal the coordinates to General Deathshead’s compound. In part two – The Dark Secrets of Helga Von Schabbs – our hero's search for the coordinates leads him to the city of Wulfburg where an obsessed Nazi archaeologist is exhuming mysterious artifacts that threaten to unleash a dark and ancient power.
STORY
The year is 1946 and the Nazis are on the brink of winning World War II. In an effort to turn the tide in the allies’ favor, B.J. Blazkowicz must embark on an epic, two-part mission deep within Bavaria….Part one of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - Rudi Jäger and the Den of Wolves - pits BJ Blazkowicz against a maniacal prison warden as he breaks into Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to steal the coordinates to General Deathshead’s compound. In part two – The Dark Secrets of Helga Von Schabbs – our hero's search for the coordinates leads him to the city of Wulfburg where an obsessed Nazi archaeologist is exhuming mysterious artifacts that threaten to unleash a dark and ancient power.
KEY FEATURES
- The Action!
Experience MachineGames’ intense first-person combat as you brandish all-new Nazi-inspired weapons such as the bolt-action rifle, 1946 shotgun, and the grenade-launching Kampfpistole. Unlock your potential with a new set of perks for hi-octane action and vicious stealth take-downs. - The Adventure!
Explore breath-taking set pieces featuring rural Germanic towns, sprawling valleys tangled with cable cars and bridges, ghostly catacombs, as well as a return to the iconic Castle Wolfenstein. Use dual-wielding metal pipes to navigate the world with brand new wall-climbing abilities. - The Terror!
Go up against a new cast of vicious villains and enemies, including legions of hulking new Super Soldiers, elite shock troops, drones and the darkest and most terrifying Nazi creations yet.
©2015 ZeniMax Media Inc. Developed in association with MachineGames. MachineGames, Bethesda, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/ or other countries. Wolfenstein and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of id Software LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks or trade names are the property of their respective owners. All Rights Reserved. Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ is a fictional story set in an alternate universe in 1946. Names, characters, organizations, locations and events are either imaginary or depicted in a fictionalized manner. The story and contents of this game are not intended to and should not be construed in any way to condone, glorify or endorse the beliefs, ideologies, events, actions, persons or behavior of the Nazi regime or to trivialize its war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Popular achievements
Undercover
Infiltrate Castle Wolfenstein
common
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75.41%
Freedom
Escape Castle Wolfenstein
common
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53.29%
Paperboy
Collect 5 letters
common
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43.25%
Revenge
Complete part one
common
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51.98%
All that glitters
Collect 8 gold items
common
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56.86%
Glittering gold
Collect 16 gold items
common
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48.62%
Health upgrade I
Unlock the Health upgrade I perk
common
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56.65%
Health upgrade II
Unlock the Health upgrade II perk
common
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36.04%
Health upgrade III
Unlock the Health upgrade III perk
common
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33.36%
System requirements
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Time to beat
5.5 hMain
8.5 h Main + Sides
15.5 h Completionist
7 h All Styles
Game length provided by HowLongToBeat
Critics reviews
Metro GameCentral
8/10
A great follow-up to The New Order, which cleverly reuses all of its best features and yet still finds time to add plenty of new elements of its own.
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4/5 stars
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is very much an expansion of its fun, entertaining predecessor, but doesn't quite pack the same emotional clout. Still, a great FPS worthy of your attention.
Read full review »PC Gamer
70/100
MachineGames are still masters of first-person violence, but this return to Castle Wolfenstein doesn't give them anything new to work with.
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Posted on: April 26, 2025
Halfro_
Verified ownerGames: 38 Reviews: 3
Awful
guns are not especially satisfying to use, the story is incredibly uninteresting, and the final boss is an add spam nightmare. i genuinely do not know who this game is for, just go play doom.
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Posted on: May 12, 2022
Draugusto
Verified ownerGames: 484 Reviews: 208
I'm done
This game is broken, first time after installing it would crash right on the main menu, I wasn't even able to change the configuration without a CTD, I tried everything, checked for file integrity, compatibility mode, and after I changed my GPU configuration it "worked" I was finally able to actually play the game for a while. Today I got similar results on my first session, but now I am trying to play and it's back to square 1 all over again, except that there's nothing more I can do, the game just kkeeps crashing, this is unacceptable and I refuse keep wasting my time trying to make it work again.
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Posted on: October 27, 2020
bradr29
Verified ownerGames: 242 Reviews: 17
Hits The Spot
My review is influenced by the fact that I don't have a lot of time for gaming anymore, yearn for some atmosphere, a good varied storyline and action, and some good old fashion Wolfenstein shoot-em-up castle fun. I have yet to play ANY of the new Wolfenstein games after RTCW, which I loved, mostly because they got such mediocre-to-bad reviews, except for New Order and Old Blood. I finally jumped into Old Blood and was hooked. The cinematic cut scenes aren't too bad at all, don't take you out of the game's atmosphere, and the story stays focused on mission-based objectives that are more than just run-and-gun repetition (escaping from prison, semi-challenging rail gun sequences, duck-and-cover fights and plenty of weapons and loot). There's some basic stealth, which is satisfying and in short bits, and you can pretty much choose which weapons you want to go with depending on the situation. Just taking out the Super Soldiers alone was a blast and full of tension, just a nice, basic set-up for the player to make his way into the castle prison to find his friend. Loved it. I picked the game up on a $5 sale and it's exactly what I was looking for. If you're a shooter-only guy maybe this is old hat by now, but I come and go through genres, and revisiting shooters happens as I see fit. I'm in my early 50's now so have played PC games for many years, and these fun single player cinematic shooters in the style of the old Raven games never gets old. I'm fine with it being on the shorter side as well, and look forward to playing New Order next.
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Posted on: January 30, 2024
VEN0M415
Verified ownerGames: 566 Reviews: 13
Very fun! Wish there was more to it.
Version Played: 1.0 (4 years old - Latest Version at the time of writting this) PC Used: R5 5600x / GTX 1070 / Win 10 Build 19045 Wolfenstein TOB is a really fun game and I enjoyed my time with it (10 hours). The hidden secrets were fun and the story was very intriguing but I wish they add more to the end as it felt oddly rushed (I'll explain in the spoiler section), maybe less time spent in the castle would have been better but thats just my opinion. I played on low/medium settings, no crashes, just a visual oddity where textures pop in a little too late when you turn towards them or go around a corner, and an audio bug where a specific enemies sound would still play after you kill them. Music was fantastic too, Definitely get this once you finish The New Order. 7/10 Spoilers ahead: I finished New Order years ago, dabbled in New Colossus afterwards but dropped it because I lost interest with the odd dialogue. Old Blood feels in-between the two where its fun to play and the story is interesting, but I feel NC's bad writting started to seep into this game a bit. Thankfully its only one weird dialogue moment with annette, like she says "why do they hate us so much" after seeing zombies.. like thats your question? Plot wise I dont get why the leaking gas didnt infect everyone, why normal enemies turned into monsters randomly, heck they dont explain if we need to stop the gas (or if its sealed) or how we got rescued (we had to climb through lots of small spaces). I wish the gate to the boss room was actually the entrance to the kings laboratory, I wish we could explore its large underground chambers to find weapons they used to burn the city etc (and use them to clear old zombies that the king trapped there). I wish we could have faced larger waves of zombies rather than the handfull that comes at us at a time, and I wish we could have faced something that felt like an actual threat and not a chained bullet sponge for a boss. A shame really.
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