Wolfenstein Over the past six years, several somersaults have been committed in front of a surprised public. The legendary series crashed after an unsuccessful restart of 2009, but managed to return “to the bunces” thanks to his efforts Machinegames. Swedish developers presented a series of a new life – after a triumph The New Order addition The Old Blood in absentia turned out to be one of the favorites among the shooters of this year.

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The Old Blood – This is an independent addon to Wolfenstein: The New Order. The original will not be needed to start it. Moreover, for a full immersion in the plot, even knowledge of the events of the past game will not be useful – we are dealing with the prequel, which talks about what happened shortly before the well -known confrontation of Blaskovich with the general skull.

1946, BJ with a partner, dressed in the uniform of German soldiers, drive up to the castle of Wolfenstein. The task is non -trivial: with the help of fake documents, get inside and steal paper with information about the whereabouts of the skull. Of course, everything is not going as smoothly as it was planned: the heroes are calculated, and soon the entire guard of the castle on combat anxiety “Heat” meets the Blaskovitsa.

Suddenly, our hero solves the problem with his inherent diplomatic art: he gets into a local prison and runs out of it, loses all his weapons over and over again, is attached to an electric stool in the face of the main villain. A similar strategic maneuver in the future, as you recall, it uses against the skull in The New Order. Dying partner, torture, hopelessness situations – in scenario components The Old Blood does not hesitate to copy his predecessor.

Military romance

If in terms of the dynamics of the development of the plot The Old Blood She remained true to the original, then in drama and the intensity of passions, she clearly does not reach him. The game has become a little more naive and slightly less expressive. Remember how significant for immersion in the atmosphere and setting were the relations and conversations of Blaskovich with Anna and other actors. Here, the brave American warrior of the bi-jaja appears as a cynical machine for the extermination of the Germans. The ironic-heroic pathos remained in place: the protagonist manages to joke with the Nazi pistol who had put up a gun to his temple. But besides the endless hatred of the Reich in the character of the protagonist, it is difficult to catch anything else.

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood simple, cheerful and carefree. The attempts of developers to add a little drama are broken on the cynical jokes of the Blaskowie and the small timing of the game – for the short period of time for which it passes, you simply do not have time to get used to the characters, and therefore their problems and executed heroisms are not taken seriously.

IN The Old Blood There was no place for the drama, but, despite this, here you can find a lot of curious information about the universe Wolfenstein. As before, we can extend playing time, reading all kinds of notes and diaries, looking at the posters of Nazi propaganda, listening to the funny dialogues of German soldiers. Many “Easterns” and simply worthy of the attention of things telling interesting facts from alternative history are scattered by levels.

Why do people have two hands? To take two pistols in them!

The relative “freshness” of the storyline is compensated by the dynamics of developing events. For eight short heads of Blaskovitz, a tornado rushes through the castle of Wolfenstein, goes to the village of Wolfburg occupied by the Germans, from there – straight to the catacombs, in which the ancient and mysterious creature lives. Thanks to the decorations constantly replacing each other and the abundance of the cat-scenes, the campaign is in one breath.

Nevertheless starts The Old Blood Pretty sluggish. We are met by a dungeon consisting of deaf corridors and gratings, overflowing with aggressive cyberps and huge robots. This, by the way, is one of the new types of enemies – chained in thick armor, they are extremely complicated if you try to destroy them “in the forehead”, but they come to combat unusual after the deactivation of the energy source that feeds them. The first twenty minutes of the game we spend in a monotonous and monotonous stealth mode, hiding behind the clumsy pieces of iron and sneaking past sleeping shepherds.

However, in the future everything falls into place. Two machine guns are in the hands of the bi-jae, and The Old Blood reaches the usual game rhythm. The very rhythm that formed the basis of the success of the previous creation Machinegames: Hurricane action here constantly makes curtsies towards an uncomplicated stealth;tension and complexity increase until their climax is reached in the battle with the “boss”. Then-a pause, a small cat-scene, after which the cycle is repeated, but each time it is enriched with something new: either they will give a shoot from the turret, then to ride on a funicular, then they will allow to saddle the big fur.

Tired of continuous shooting? Here you have a little stealth. He also bored? Work as a waiter by serving the Nazi archaeologist. In general, you can’t look at the Nazis anymore? Then fight the zombie. Machinegames At the right time, he throws something new, maintaining interest throughout the game.

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A familiar mechanics migrated in addition without obvious changes – with all the advantages and disadvantages. The ability of the Nazis to sound the alarm is perfectly unnoticed by the ability of the Nazis: learning about the presence of Blaskovich, Fritz will immediately call reinforcements, and several dozens of opponents, like bees on honey, will attack the main character. Yes, Stlass marks life noticeably in some episodes. However, the insufficient branching of locations and their relatively small size allows you to throw off completely dishonest things: being noticed, you can simply rush to the next “checkpoint” without paying attention to enemies. The trick manages even at the highest levels of complexity.

Such behavior is understandable – stealth in the last two Wolfenstein it does not stand out anything remarkable. Opponents do not hear you at a distance of two steps, but they see perfectly in the dark. The only condition is to stay outside their field of view. Getting to the Nazis from the back, you can safely perform quick murder. The latter can now also be implemented with the help of pipes – new weapons of close combat, which, in addition to its main goal, is used here as a universal key from all doors, as well as a climbing tool for lifting to high areas.

There are other new items in the arsenal of the hero. A cut, a rifle with an optical sight, a gun with explosive shells is nothing exotic, but each of the “guns” finds its application in very definite situations. We will take advantage of the ordinary fighters from machine guns, in battles with opponents at a great distance we take the rifle, met the enemy heavier – here bombs and shotgun are suitable.

The ranks of the opponents of Blaskovitsa were replenished with “old friends”. In addition to the robots, which have already been mentioned above, the hero will have to face a zombie. Although they themselves are not particularly dangerous, the dead man that suddenly arises in the doorway adds an element of horror to the gameplay.

The Old Blood – almost exemplary addition. An entertaining plot that reveals the new sides of the universe, a couple of new “guns” and types of enemies and, most importantly, restrained at the level of the original rhythm – Machinegames Successfully continued the rebirth of the series she had begun Wolfenstein.

Pros: zombies-nazis;The usual dynamics of gameplay is preserved;new types of weapons;abundance of parts that reveal the setting.
Cons: sluggish start of the game;Lack of drama in the plot.

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

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But Old Blood is like a tribute to the past. In which there was no drama, only shooting and Germans, Germans and shooting ..

This, gentlemen, is commendable.
And the original with pure raisins, which was deprived of this assessment from the bay-bastard, but slapped “our choice”. No need this with:

And for me, Old Blood

is beautiful. It is straightened by the spirit to Castle Wolfenstein 2001. No special drama, plot turns – again locks, a town, tombs, pure Masakr Nazis on an industrial scale, even though the levels have become smaller, there are more enemies on them, and there are cartridges and first -aid kits everywhere so that the process of killing is not inhibited.
Well, zombies and occultism are generally, of course, for Wolf, so I personally am very pleased.
The only negative is that special groups from Frau with beautiful busts were again not brought, and in the middle Wolfenstein 2009 they were = (

I thought about a full-fledged review, but somewhere at the moment of writing an introductory word I realized that I had nothing to review. This is still a “new order”, which, by some miracle, managed to lose something important.
I will not deny that the original was gorgeous: the gameplay was hurricane, the design fascinated, and the characters pleased with charisma. It only turned out that it is worth supplementing one point with all sorts of buns, and the other two mercilessly cut, as the game actually turns into a banal juman who is trying to imitate himself. Several hours of the game have passed, but nothing memorable has happened. I heard that some players deleted the original because of the first two levels where there was nothing that was shown in trailers, but appeared after a long time to live in a psychiatric hospital. This is somewhere over an hour of gameplay. And then various epic moments begin to occur at about the same speed. Once per hour, something really cool happens (at the very beginning even more often): a psychiatric hospital, an interrogation, a gorgeous monologue of a grandfather with a double-barreled, arrival in Berlin. This is about 2 hours of the game. And now nothing is happening. At the very beginning, they showed a small video, then a peaceful trip in a funicular, acquaintance with the warrior as a charismatic villain with dogs, the first shootout and unexpected captivity. After that, a pitch darkness began: three identical rooms, where each time there are more and more robots on a leash, which seem to be necessary to kill as imperceptibly as possible, but even if you start shooting from their bullets, there will be no anxiety outside the room. Even flying robots with cameras and lanterns brazenly fly by, absolutely not reacting to us and loudly exploding corpses of enemies.

OK. After some time, it reaches the usual gameplay with normal enemy soldiers, who are still overdonely destroyed, but there are no between the killings of crowds of enemies, no relaxing/excessive/surprising videos, there is no! Maybe it will be better further, but at this stage this pack of cards depresses. Not the game makes you play in it to find out what will happen next, and you make yourself play to find out when at least something begins.

In general – the game in places is too long. Because of this, the first half seems to be boring and protracted, but in moments when at least something happens, it becomes very cool. But, as I have already said, to get to Krutotenchki – you need to go through a few dull hours in the castle. But how the escape begins – it will be quite cool. Once I even froze on the spot from the opening picture. They shoot at me, and I stare staring at the backs and in the sky, however, they shot there not very accurately because of some features of the second half of the game, so I controlled the situation. Anyway – the second part of the addition is rich in events, dialogs, characters and drama. And it becomes sharply interesting. Somehow strange. The game about the Wolf Stone Castle, where the castle itself is the most dull thing in the game. Strange.

And the finale. Well xs. Logical, but crumpled. There are no emotions from the video, but the boss is almost good.

And the fact that the excellent and rich plot was the chip of the original. His lack of addition is a huge minus.

Blood is not suitable for a new order … They cut out everything that was a game from it-they left only a void … I barely forced himself to finish to play until the end.

I passed a little with the lazy, but the music in the credits simply raised morality to heaven. I love games for such surprises.

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That you are all the third Sam are kicking, Herodes? It turned out excellent?
And about the time-time-this is IMHO non-nonsense. The plot in some games fuck did not rest and all attempts to add it to the side almost always get up cancer. Maybe it’s better not to try?

Everyone here loves to “exaggerate”. Drive, in short. Rate is kicked, Dum 3 BFG Edishn is not at all reasonably kicks, they kick Kwak 4, they kick ewells, Sam 3 kick, Duke Forever is kicked, they kick ..
Who did not take off, they kick. And assenting the rest.

Mass kicking on! Stop. Game. Ru

Nevertheless, this is not a craft on the topic of serious Sam or Payniller. This is a plot addon, which is a prequel. And now is not the time for the AAA-class games, where there is nothing but gameplay. This is the lot of F2P what to do.

I subscribe to every word. And my brain also explodes from the zombie! What the hell should they be inserted into the game)))

VOU! The game was good. And I did not kick the third, but simply said that the addon was declared in the plot shooter, and here they almost changed the genre without warning us.

good game, bought in Steam on the day of the release, went quite quickly on the safety. The game cheerfully kept the pace, only by the end somehow a little blown away. With the advent of the zombie, the drive and difficulty disappeared, he just ran with a gun and hung hedshots. The boss is also so -so a child, killed the first time. Remembering how in the New Order I rushed from the skull and his fucking robot, I was just disappointed. But these are stupidly small nit -picking, like a background – just fine. It’s a pleasure to shoot, Blaskovich anneals replicas about hot dogs, tells a story about candy and depicts interference with lips. Great game, exactly released on Victory Day.