Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

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  1. 00mikhael
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    bad
    The game does not miss a step from the New order. It's a direct continuatio
  2. foinf
    May 19, 2023
    1
    Bare minimum effort has been put into this game. Wolfenstein reboot has mainly been a narrative driven experience and in this department this game fails miserably. They really did not even attempt to come up with a cohesive plot and the caricaturing becomes more and more ridiculous as the game progresses. What a fall from grace when compared to the one that came before this one.
  3. IniciusV
    Feb 4, 2023
    0
    FPS É UMA MERDA, SHOOTER É UMA MERDA, PRIMEIRA PESSOA É UMA MERDA, SÓ TEM FPS/SHOOTER/PRIMEIRA PESSOA NESSA MERDA
  4. ghosttoyou
    Sep 11, 2022
    3
    Как то не затянуло вообще, дропнул максимально быстро, стрелять не интересно в этой игре.
  5. Noorasfoor110
    Jun 23, 2022
    2
    game for childrens

    t surpasses their recommended specs.

    Despite that i got a few hours out of it without crashing today and only minor issues with audio and video. The real issue was how bad the game is. If you ignore the cutscenes and setting, with the worst characters i have ever seen in a…
  6. Gekyll
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    Убогое продолжение среднего шутера Сюжет это просто трэш. Крайне не рекомендую
  7. zerobane
    Aug 15, 2021
    3
    Oh what have you done to WOLFENSTEIN!

    Just another re-skinned cash grab with some awful cut scenes that build up a cringe inducing story of drama. 1. Mechanics / physics = guns feel fake, no real mechanics; just pinpoint aiming, click and shoot style. Really underwhelming playstyle required. 2. AI = feels clunky and boring, lots of grinding and repeating patterns. Same    Oh what have you done to WOLFENSTEIN!

    Just another re-skinned cash grab with some awful cut scenes that build up a cringe inducing story of drama.

    1. Mechanics / physics = guns feel fake, no real mechanics; just pinpoint aiming, click and shoot style. Really underwhelming playstyle required.
    2. AI = feels clunky and boring, lots of grinding and repeating patterns. Same characters for trash mobs everywhere.
    3. Messaging / story; seemed like a another forced message from amateur writers trying to push some agenda. Just mostly "yawns", sighs and finding what key to skip the scenes.

    Just another water-downed FPS with NO real new mechanics, playstyle or features; then add in a cringe inducing story of meh'ness.    … Expand
  8. megak
    Jul 25, 2021
    3
    What a mess. Bought it on sale in 2021 and still feel like i wasted my money. Horrible game play decisions that ruined good game play from TNO.
    And ofc the awful sitcom/ soap drama, out of this world story.
  9. SPUKER
    Jul 14, 2021
    0
    I really wish the political agendas in video games didn't become a thing. New Order was fun this is just garbage they recycled the first game and put some blm, leftist **** in our throats cause twitter or something said it's the new thing now. I'm here to play games, have fun and maybe dive into a good story, not to get fed with political views.

    F*ck you Bethesda. You can do better than    I really wish the political agendas in video games didn't become a thing. New Order was fun this is just garbage they recycled the first game and put some blm, leftist **** in our throats cause twitter or something said it's the new thing now. I'm here to play games, have fun and maybe dive into a good story, not to get fed with political views.

    F*ck you Bethesda. You can do better than this **** You don't need to appeal to political sides to thrive. At least you could try making an actually good game with a good story, it's not like you've never done that before. Super disappointed.    … Expand
  10. chumpwithnoname
    May 19, 2021
    0
    BLM - SJW - JOOS agenda started after about 2 minutes of watching intros. I'm living in EU why should I be forced to watch this degenerative american crap?

    I wanted to dive into action and have good game experience like previous games. Not eating your gringo political shat.
  11. TheTownDrunk
    Feb 18, 2021
    0
    This is not a WOLFENSTEIN game, it's a WOKESTEIN movie with occasional shooting.
    You get hours of cringe-worthy SJW-loaded cut scenes that are terribly written SJW playbook scenes, they literally went down their list to mark off every single social issue known to man - sorry WOman. Fat shaming-lecturing? Check! Feminism? Check! Evil racist Christians? Check! "Communism = great"    This is not a WOLFENSTEIN game, it's a WOKESTEIN movie with occasional shooting.
    You get hours of cringe-worthy SJW-loaded cut scenes that are terribly written SJW playbook scenes, they literally went down their list to mark off every single social issue known to man - sorry WOman. Fat shaming-lecturing? Check! Feminism? Check! Evil racist Christians? Check! "Communism = great" propaganda? Double check! Mandatory black super woman? Check! Breast feeding on screen? Check! Some of these scenes feel artificially planted there just for making a political statement.
    The main female lead, a poor woman's 70s Pam Grier knock-off is just so atrocious it hurts to watch. She is a totally unlikable character and terribly written, and yes, she is a racist, but that's OK, because she only hates white people. White MEN. According to the SJW playbook that's the acceptable kind of racism.
    Blazkowicz's dad is the stereotypical left-wing depiction of a Southern Christian man who beats up his wife, his child, his dog, openly defends the nazis (this type of stereotype is perfectly OK, according to the SJW playbook). This storyline is a total contradiction to what is mentioned in previous parts in the series.
    Then we get the over-romanticizing of communism worked into the background art in more or less subtle ways, ignoring the FACT that communism killed more people world-wide than nazi Germany did (and no, this is not to diminish the nazi crimes, both are crimes against humanity on an epic scale).
    All these preachy cutscenes cannot be skipped either. Yes, there's some shooting in here as well, which is copy & pasted from the previous Machine Games titles WOLFENSTEIN: THE NEW ORDER and WOLFENSTEIN: THE OLD BLOOD which are both superior to this SJW garbage.
    Do yourself a favor: get WOLFENSTEIN 3D, WOLFENSTEIN (2009) and/or the best of them all: RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN, where you get more bang for your buck (which translates into a higher dead nazi per second ratio) but avoid this steaming pile of dog $H!T like the plague that it is. Dear developers: KEEP POLITICS OUT OF OUR ENTERTAINMENT!    … Expand
  12. Isogi
    Jan 31, 2021
    0
    I can't believe they made Blazkowicz a Jew. I had no problems playing this character when he was still Polish, but this is absurd. And everywhere this annoying leftism. The plot is a drama, low fps on a good setup. I turned off after 30 minutes and returned that ****
  13. skeletorone
    Sep 30, 2020
    3
    Terrible game. Awful level design, weak pacing and a ridiculously stupid story with equally stupid characters. The story felt like it was written by an angsty, basement dwelling teenager who wanted to shock his conservative parents. It is basically an eight hour long temper tantrum because Trump won in 2016 and now we somehow need communism or whatever. If you believe my assessment on theTerrible game. Awful level design, weak pacing and a ridiculously stupid story with equally stupid characters. The story felt like it was written by an angsty, basement dwelling teenager who wanted to shock his conservative parents. It is basically an eight hour long temper tantrum because Trump won in 2016 and now we somehow need communism or whatever. If you believe my assessment on the writers being just angsty teenagers is exaggerated, go on Youtube and take a listen to the embarrassing "We're Not Gonna Take It" cover by Veilröth. This is what Machinegames decided to put in as the final track for the game. Grow up, Machinegames.

    3 Points for the graphics.    … Expand
  14. jcasetnl
    May 30, 2020
    3
    The gunplay mechanics are precise but combat overall is boring. You face the same wave after wave of vanilla enemies. You never have to think creatively. Alternative approaches to situations are either non-existent or unnecessary. It throws several set pieces at you, such as dropping you in the middle of multiple enemies at close range, and it's obviously just to force a little variationThe gunplay mechanics are precise but combat overall is boring. You face the same wave after wave of vanilla enemies. You never have to think creatively. Alternative approaches to situations are either non-existent or unnecessary. It throws several set pieces at you, such as dropping you in the middle of multiple enemies at close range, and it's obviously just to force a little variation to make up for its own lack of creativity.

    Graphically the game can best be described as "dark and cluttered", with terrible object separation and depth. A filter and film grain are applied to everything reducing all colors to drab browns, greens and grays, which while apropos the setting, simply goes too far.

    Lighting and shadows are annoying and obnoxious. When are devs going to get it? Lens flares that render the entire rest of the scene indiscernible are never, ever good. Like ever. And you can't even shoot out lights to get rid of that horrible effect.

    When the game isn't blinding you by sticking a light right in your face, it's just plain too dark to see anything. You can override some of the fail by cranking up your monitor's brightness but then you'll get total washout in the next (sort of) normally lit scene. Lastly, there's fog, and it's some of the worst fog I've seen in a video game (and I've been doing it since the days of software 3D).

    Partly due to the graphics, often times trying to find the path through the levels is very "where's Waldo". This is made worse because there's no waypoint system. They went old school and left it out, but unlike games of old with usually fairly straightforward paths through levels, this is anything but. Expect to backtrack a lot to find that one vent door hidden by a lens flare and shrouded in fog. Ever wish your action FPS games had an element of old school adventure game pixel hunting? You sort of got your wish.

    This brings us to the next problem. While stumbling around half blind because of all of the above, stealth is pretty much pointless. You'll backtrack multiple times to find your way through the level and trigger every enemy in the process. Overall it's not big on stealth anyway, but it might as well have left it out altogether.

    The one good thing here is that as of this writing (5/2020), it's well-optimized and runs fine in HD even on my aging GTX 1060 PC.

    Summing up the graphics and gameplay, A first-person shooter should be a ballet of death. This feels like stumbling through a crowded attic and the only light source is a flashlight aimed directly in your eyes.

    Overwrought graphics and mediocre gunplay would get this turd a 5/10, but they weren't done yet. This has the most heavy-handed and hackneyed SJW posturing I've ever seen in a game. It's so over-the-top I thought it might even be caricaturing SJWs. Every check-box is ticked: the anti-semitic, racist, wife-beating father. The fat-shaming, homophobic mother. Gotta earn them abelist points by making the whole first level feature the hero as crippled and wheelchair-bound. What's that you say? You need a no-nonsense, big afro'd, "power to the people", black revolutionary woman? We got you covered. And as a bonus, we even threw in her white, meek "whatever you say, m'lady" husband.

    All of this would be forgivable if these characters were backed by good writing (example: Jackie Brown), but they aren't. They exist in place of the writing. They'll regurgitate lines that have been said a thousand times in a thousand braindead Hollywood scripts. I bet when the writers went to the producers and said, "You know, I just can't quite flesh out this character or create a compelling story." The producer replied, "Well, then just make her fat and queer, and they'll eat it up."

    New Colossus marks a turning point in gaming for me. I've always researched games before buying, but now I additionally check if there's an over-abundance of heavy-handed political nonsense making up for lazy writing and characters. As a progressive centrist, nothing in this game is progressive. It's just mindless cheerleading. It's just replacing an old stereotype with a new one. It's just dumb. Can I say that without being called racist, sexist, etc? Probably not, but I'm saying it anyway.

    My last thought on this game is it would be forgettable and not worth a review as a standalone game, but on the heels of New Order and Old Blood, it's just an incredible disappointment. I won't return to the franchise until I see good evidence that the head has been excavated from the posterior.    … Expand
  15. Soloux
    May 28, 2020
    2
    Wrong character in a wrong game.
    Wrong game in the hands of a wrong people.
    Untalented "writers" and wanna be "directors"... Amateurs. All of you in Machine Games. To the very bottom of your "testers".
    But the biggest guilt is from id, bloody, software that give you the rights.
  16. valrond
    May 9, 2020
    2
    Terrible FPS, boring, bland, graphics are "good", but the artistic design is so bad, everything is corridors, tunnels, grey, it is a waste.
    The gameplay is boring and generic. It tries to be stealthy but fails, so you go guns blazing, but there is nothing to put this apart from any other FPS, well, except for dual wielding weapons.
    The scenery is cramped, very little open field, and it    Terrible FPS, boring, bland, graphics are "good", but the artistic design is so bad, everything is corridors, tunnels, grey, it is a waste.
    The gameplay is boring and generic. It tries to be stealthy but fails, so you go guns blazing, but there is nothing to put this apart from any other FPS, well, except for dual wielding weapons.
    The scenery is cramped, very little open field, and it manages to be linear AND confusing at the same time.
    Enemies are, well, nazis, but not WW2 nazis, they are referring to white males as nazis. Yep. I played till I got to the State building, and they specifically said so. This game got infected by SJWs antiwhite propaganda. It was bad until that point, but that just made me quit. If the gameplay was good, I could have endured the communist propaganda of the game, but nope. Not worth my time (no money, it was on Xbox game pass).    … Expand
  17. umleric
    Mar 28, 2020
    0
    **** this game. **** SJW commie nonsensical crap. Wolfenstein is dead. Don't play this crap.
  18. OrwellWasRight
    Feb 21, 2020
    4
    This game is awful.
    The story is terrible and so are the characters. That's what happens if people who obviously got zero idea how to write a good story try to create a story driven shooter. The humor is cringe worthy at best. The whole level design feels very generic.I really enjoyed "New Order" and "Old Blood". Everything they did right in "New Order" and "Old Blood" they did wrong in    This game is awful.
    The story is terrible and so are the characters. That's what happens if people who obviously got zero idea how to write a good story try to create a story driven shooter. The humor is cringe worthy at best. The whole level design feels very generic.I really enjoyed "New Order" and "Old Blood". Everything they did right in "New Order" and "Old Blood" they did wrong in this one. It's just a big disappointment.
    Only good part of this game is the fighting. It feels way more realistic than its predecessors.
    And one more thing: Since when did Blazkowicz turn into a whiny little b.tch ? Isn't he supposed to be some hard-nosed,badass supersoldier ? All I hear is: Caroline this, Caroline that. Just freaking awful...
    Get your sh.t together dude!

    Stay away from this one.

    Edit: Well, I've finished the game now. First of all this game is way too short(I finished it in only 13 hours) If you do all the Übercommando stuff you might add 2 extra hours but why would I do them ? Those missons are borring and add nothing to the game.
    So after finishing this game I give it a 4 instead of a 2. The fighting was good and I even had some fun from time to time. The story stayed horrible till the end. The end was very anticlimate and borring.
    So overall this game was a huge disappointment.    … Expand
  19. JavaSquirt
    Feb 14, 2020
    3
    превратили один из лучших шутеров в медодрамму про негров, феменисток и прочую толерастную поебень. Любая игра которая пытается впарить мне пропаганду 'угнетённых' сразу идёт нахуй.
  20. titaniumapps
    Jan 14, 2019
    0
    LOVED the first one! HATED the second simply because of the story - lets make it as politically correct as possible! That's not what the first one was about and it has completely RUINED the second one
  21. metalatraiu
    Dec 7, 2018
    0
    technical complaints, bugs, freezes, crashes, screen tearing, no proper Vsync, jarring drops in fps, can't launch game (cannot write dump error)
  22. hypernewbie
    Nov 24, 2018
    4
    Too many things that explode for no reason. Stop making things that explode. No explode bad game designer bad naughty naughty naughty.

    SERIOUSLY STOP MAKING RANDOM EVERYTHING EVER THAT EXPLODES ALL THE TIME EXPLODE BOOM EXPLODE EVERYTHING EXPLODE

    it makes for a horrifying bland gaming experience
  23. azilgath
    Sep 14, 2018
    1
    Could have been great, until they decided that killing Nazis wasn't enough and had to inject SJW nonsense into the game.
  24. Madremia
    Aug 28, 2018
    0
    I'd like to enjoy this game but frankly the bad performance, sheer lack of decent level design, and unfun gameplay just make it impossible to play. It's a shame because it has potential (Who in this modern day doesn't want to kill nazis and klansmen?) but they seriously need to hire at least one person who actually knows anything about game design and engine design before it could possiblyI'd like to enjoy this game but frankly the bad performance, sheer lack of decent level design, and unfun gameplay just make it impossible to play. It's a shame because it has potential (Who in this modern day doesn't want to kill nazis and klansmen?) but they seriously need to hire at least one person who actually knows anything about game design and engine design before it could possibly get there.… Expand
  25. Liqsicc
    Aug 17, 2018
    4
    WTF is going on in the story... I'm just... I just... WHy? is this FUN??!? WHY!?!?!?

    Save your money.
  26. kch3691
    Jul 8, 2018
    4
    A slow and boring oddly paced sequel to the great game that was New Order. Also unacceptably buggy on the PC.
  27. Garavel
    Jul 6, 2018
    4
    ı played other 2 games and loved them but this is really sucks. graphics was really good, gameplay was good too and my fps was upper than 60+, but the new characters are really **** Story is written by child like ; lets not be racist, lets defend freedom. In conclution, story was really ****
  28. Serenityinaz12
    Jun 23, 2018
    4
    Most disappointing game for me in a long time. I read some of the mixed reviews but still figured I would love the game considering how much I liked New Order and the political issues don't bother me at all. However, it's all the gameplay changes that in my opinion are for the worse that has resulted in me not having much fun with the game. The combat and shooting feels off, the newMost disappointing game for me in a long time. I read some of the mixed reviews but still figured I would love the game considering how much I liked New Order and the political issues don't bother me at all. However, it's all the gameplay changes that in my opinion are for the worse that has resulted in me not having much fun with the game. The combat and shooting feels off, the new perk system isn't nearly as fun it feels more grindy, not being able to replay levels sucks since I loved doing that to find missed items in the first one, can't even press M to open the map have to maneuver through the cumbersom awful menu screen (another negative it's so cumbersome this time), mission objectives don't list the story unless you press enter on each one every single time, sound effects are awful grenades sound like fire crackers and hitting something with a metal axe sounds like dinging something with a butter knife and there are tons of graphical glitches I've found so far. Above all this - IT JUST ISN'T FUN! All of the things I've listed so far are annoyances or little things, but above all of that I'm just not having fun playing it. I also detest the mein leben achievement considering how buggy the game is and having to do it all in one sitting - it's just stupid. Overall I'm shocked at how much worse this game is than New Order, but that's just me.… Expand
  29. SRKNZ
    Jun 22, 2018
    2
    PROBABLY THE WORST SHOOTER I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THIS YEAR. I liked Wolfenstein New Order and did not mind the Old Blood spin off either. Both had decent stories and enjoyable balanced game play. Then along came the New Colossus. Its well named because in my opinion this is a colossal mess, in every sense.

    Lets start with the game play. Most of the weapons that worked so well in the other    PROBABLY THE WORST SHOOTER I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THIS YEAR. I liked Wolfenstein New Order and did not mind the Old Blood spin off either. Both had decent stories and enjoyable balanced game play. Then along came the New Colossus. Its well named because in my opinion this is a colossal mess, in every sense.

    Lets start with the game play. Most of the weapons that worked so well in the other games are missing much of the up-gradable aspects that made them fun to use and more importantly effective against waves of enemies. By contrast the latest game might as well have armed you with a spoon and a blunt bread knife. The result of under-powered weapons is an exhausting corner shooter where if you are lucky you can use a choke point to pick off opponents one or two at a time. If not be prepared to die again and again even on lower difficulty settings. The balance on hit points to armour and health seems horribly skewed in favour of your opponents too. Just to make a frustrating un-enjoyable experience even more so.

    Putting aside the crummy game play is an equally crummy story that makes no sense in the context of the past game stories, holding together about as well as a Chinese Rolex. Unlikable key characters don't help either nor does a overdose of political correctness with a dash of misandry. Being a white male, who of course no doubt makes up the majority of players, is seemingly, not such a good thing if this nonsense is to be believed. A Gone with the Wind long string of pointless video cuts scenes does not help things along either.

    Lastly to top off this crap sandwich there's the bugs. I could not get this game to run on my high end gaming rigs native resolution of 1920 x 1080 and instead had to apply a setting I have not used in many years. I also had to tone down the high end textures and graphics I paid handsomely for, for no obvious reason.

    Is there any upside? Well the graphics, even on lower settings, are nice and the level design creative and interesting.

    Regrettably that's all I find to like here. I have played games since Space Invaders days and I know the gaming world inside out. For me this title epitomizes what poor game design looks like which is inexplicable as the previous games in the series whilst not show stopping, were least playable and enjoyable.    … Expand
  30. Kulkuri
    Jun 21, 2018
    4
    Buggy and non-enjoyable mess. Wolfenstein: New Colossus pushes progressive real-world political propaganda in its plot way too hard and way too much. For example the part were a clown version of Hitler shoots a character which looks and behaves like Ronald Reagan was distasteful in my opinion. The game is patronizing towards gamer and underestimates intelligence of its audience. This isn'tBuggy and non-enjoyable mess. Wolfenstein: New Colossus pushes progressive real-world political propaganda in its plot way too hard and way too much. For example the part were a clown version of Hitler shoots a character which looks and behaves like Ronald Reagan was distasteful in my opinion. The game is patronizing towards gamer and underestimates intelligence of its audience. This isn't an entertaining game. However it's visually impressive and audio is decent with some interesting music. Level design isn't bad but it isn't good either. I cannot recommend this to anyone except hardcore fans of the Wolfenstein: New Order and far-left game journalists of Polygon, Kotaku and alike.… Expand
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#16 Best PC Game of 2017
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#15 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017
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#13 Most Shared PC Game of 2017

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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 40
  3. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. CD-Action
    Jan 10, 2018
    90
    Shooter of the year! It plays great, looks spectacular and sounds amazing. What’s more, despite an apparent lack of seriousness it’s not afraid to bring up difficult subjects, mixing comedy and tragedy in a stunning way. It’s a ridiculously good game. [13/2017, p.30]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 2, 2018
    80
    The re-ignited fight against the swastika is great action fun once again. It is a pity that a story is not intriguing enough, and it applies to it: what’s long, is stupid. [Issue#280]
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 30, 2017
    83
    Hopefully, by the time Machine Games starts work on Wolfenstein 3, they will find a writer who understands that fast-paced action does not mix well with protagonist’s constant complaining. [Issue#225, p.52]
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