Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

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  1. LifeHistory
    Nov 1, 2017
    8
    I gave this game a Zero on release because it crashed and gave black screen and was unplayable. After the first update the game works now smoothly have not had a problem yet with R9 290 at 1080p Ultra settings. Some of you may still have problem but I am speaking for me and my hardware.

    Now on to the game itself. Well the game is fun if you loved The New Order then you will love this    I gave this game a Zero on release because it crashed and gave black screen and was unplayable. After the first update the game works now smoothly have not had a problem yet with R9 290 at 1080p Ultra settings. Some of you may still have problem but I am speaking for me and my hardware.

    Now on to the game itself. Well the game is fun if you loved The New Order then you will love this one too. Good action and nice graphics with beautiful music.

    I hate all propaganda they put in games and moves and bunch of pure politician Bullsh*t and incorrect historical information and events. But this is the world we're living in today its based on a Lies. Either you play the game and ignore these stuff just like me or you skip the game. This game mostly base on shooting stuff and not a story driven game. If you are looking for story then there are better game choices out there.

    Be aware of all the critic reviewers today. They all have been payed on every big game made by a big company like Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft and so on. And most of the Critics gives the same reviews to PC as Consoles when they only played it on Console. Most of them have NO IDEA how the game run on PC. This is getting out of hand and there is absolutely no reliable source no more. To hell with this evil world... Do not trust the critics wait and see for yourself how the game is and runs by watching videos on release.    … Expand
  2. MadclownJack
    Oct 31, 2017
    4
    Bethesda is turning into EA. It's obvious that this is barely a mediocre gaming experience, and yet everyone praises it. Why?! It's the same game as the first Wolfenstein except worse from every technical aspect. Just a generic, nazi shooting game and it's poorly done. How does that happen in 2017. They've cut corners everywhere. Graphics are exactly the same as before only now the gameBethesda is turning into EA. It's obvious that this is barely a mediocre gaming experience, and yet everyone praises it. Why?! It's the same game as the first Wolfenstein except worse from every technical aspect. Just a generic, nazi shooting game and it's poorly done. How does that happen in 2017. They've cut corners everywhere. Graphics are exactly the same as before only now the game chokes on shaders, LODs and other inane, unnecessary crap that in turn, amps up the system requirements for NO GOOD REASON. Also, crashes, freezes, lags. Seriously? What a load. To hell with its "messages", characters and whatever else you find to praise undeservedly. If it were a movie, this would make SOME sense. This is a game, and it's barely playable, so who cares about the characters, and political statements? Managed to bore me to tears in three levels. Utter nonsense.… Expand
  3. Derpmeowslurp
    Oct 28, 2017
    0
    Some serious issues with the pc port, artifacts, crashing, fps slow downs, i have more than adequate hardware that 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    Some serious issues with the pc port, artifacts, crashing, fps slow downs, i have more than adequate hardware that 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 video game, you can get a few decent hours of fun out of the shooting, the problem is that you can't separate the plot, story and characters from the game.

    It beats you over the head with some of the dumbest commentary i have ever listened to. It's so bad it's like a caricature of a caricature. when you go that far it just becomes silly and tiresome. Idk what Bethesda was thinking giving this game to anyone in Sweden. but they've managed to pull a Mass Effect Andromeda in the worst possible way.

    The only people who will enjoy this are people who can ignore everything but the few hours of gunplay it gives you.    … Expand
  4. potatoesaredeli
    Oct 28, 2017
    1
    Enjoyed the previous games. But this seems to be Bethesda laziness showing as usual. They haven't really created anything new and this just seems to be a rehash of what they had before with some blended cutscenes, like what they did with Fallout 4.

    The other part is there are numerous bugs and performance issues, again just like Fallout 4. I'm not sure what's happening at Bethesda    Enjoyed the previous games. But this seems to be Bethesda laziness showing as usual. They haven't really created anything new and this just seems to be a rehash of what they had before with some blended cutscenes, like what they did with Fallout 4.

    The other part is there are numerous bugs and performance issues, again just like Fallout 4. I'm not sure what's happening at Bethesda these days but they seem to be failing in quality and any type of originality.

    Definitely not worth $59. Rent or wait until it goes on discount.    … Expand
  5. dogecoindoge
    Oct 27, 2017
    0
    Really wanted to love this game, but the performance is just terrible. It constantly freezes or crashes to desktop. If I don't completely restart my machine after a crash it runs at < 10 FPS. Yes, my drivers and directX are completely up to date. Yes I meet the minimum requirements. Running Doom 2016, Wolfenstein New Blood, Witcher 3 etc is no problem and look great. This game has someReally wanted to love this game, but the performance is just terrible. It constantly freezes or crashes to desktop. If I don't completely restart my machine after a crash it runs at < 10 FPS. Yes, my drivers and directX are completely up to date. Yes I meet the minimum requirements. Running Doom 2016, Wolfenstein New Blood, Witcher 3 etc is no problem and look great. This game has some serious problems and I can't recommend it until they're fixed.… Expand
  6. coustoe
    Oct 28, 2017
    0
    Enjoyed the first game and other releases, But as others have noted this has become highly politicized and taints everything in the game and just makes it hard to enjoy. You play games to escape the real world not to get bombarded by Leftist/Antifa/BLM propaganda. If you want a game to be able to escape and blow off some steam, this isn't the game for you. Lots of other titles outEnjoyed the first game and other releases, But as others have noted this has become highly politicized and taints everything in the game and just makes it hard to enjoy. You play games to escape the real world not to get bombarded by Leftist/Antifa/BLM propaganda. If you want a game to be able to escape and blow off some steam, this isn't the game for you. Lots of other titles out there right now you can spend your hard earn money and time on instead of having to watch long badly done politicized cut scenes.… Expand
  7. Canisrah
    Oct 30, 2017
    0
    This boring derivative shooter is using a venerable franchise to make a quick buck by injecting the game play with a story riddled with anti-white propaganda and social engineering.

    The 'punch a Nazi' refrain goes well beyond the traditional villains of the series and expands the virtue signaling to anyone who is white. We discover our hero was abused as a child by his white father who,    This boring derivative shooter is using a venerable franchise to make a quick buck by injecting the game play with a story riddled with anti-white propaganda and social engineering.

    The 'punch a Nazi' refrain goes well beyond the traditional villains of the series and expands the virtue signaling to anyone who is white. We discover our hero was abused as a child by his white father who, surprise surprise was a terrible racist and anti-semite. We discover that the great hope for the world is the multi-ethnic group of resistance fighters which are a carbon copy of other SJW productions like Star Wars The Force Awakens.

    The developers here have gone OUT OF THEIR WAY to push a particular narrative here and it is visible in the opening minutes of the game and continues throughout. Its poison, and it should be rightly rejected and called out for the damage it is doing not only to gamers, but to what is left of Western Civilization.    … Expand
  8. Jerger
    Oct 27, 2017
    7
    BUGGY MESS
    This is not a complete review i will adjust later
    took me an hour just to get the damn thing to work on pc, i feel many would just give up. tons of ugly screen tearing. in game vsync is broke. had to disable in game and enable in nvidia control panel. But had to do so in some unknown order combination with rebooting and turning off and on in game since i couldnt repeat the    BUGGY MESS
    This is not a complete review i will adjust later

    took me an hour just to get the damn thing to work on pc, i feel many would just give up. tons of ugly screen tearing. in game vsync is broke. had to disable in game and enable in nvidia control panel. But had to do so in some unknown order combination with rebooting and turning off and on in game since i couldnt repeat the solution. basically its working good enough but still some tearing. also had to disable the dpi resolution option in the executable properties to get 4k to work..oh i also had to install a latest hotfix from nvidia even though the fix said it was for kepler cards i have win 10 and 1080ti fully updated. i guess bethesda doesnt test their pc game on win 10 or nvidias latest cards. Annoying.    … Expand
  9. jprepo1
    Oct 29, 2017
    3
    What a sad follow up to a great series. The PC version is ludicrously buggy, and is clearly not ready for release yet. This is probably more on the publisher than the developer, but, from a consumer standpoint, its hard to see a distinction.

    The writing is atrocious, and actually may make ME: Andromeda look good. Its absurd, politically heavy handed to a degree I've never seen before,    What a sad follow up to a great series. The PC version is ludicrously buggy, and is clearly not ready for release yet. This is probably more on the publisher than the developer, but, from a consumer standpoint, its hard to see a distinction.

    The writing is atrocious, and actually may make ME: Andromeda look good. Its absurd, politically heavy handed to a degree I've never seen before, and detracts greatly from the already dodgy gameplay (good luck using stealth).

    Steer clear.    … Expand
  10. taroyama
    Oct 29, 2017
    0
    Sorry for any mistakes, english isn't my first language.

    Despite the fact that I knew this game was going to be catering to the current political scene, I wanted to believe that it was just a marketing decision and would have no impact on the game. I was wrong. The whole central point of wolfenstein was killing nazis. This game instead tries to make it as if you are what the far    Sorry for any mistakes, english isn't my first language.

    Despite the fact that I knew this game was going to be catering to the current political scene, I wanted to believe that it was just a marketing decision and would have no impact on the game.
    I was wrong.

    The whole central point of wolfenstein was killing nazis. This game instead tries to make it as if you are what the far left believes is the antithesis of nazis: Communist revolutionaries. This game isn't fun, it's politics with some gameplay.

    The gameplay is extremely bland. They wanted to make this a story game but the plot is awful. The level design is worse.

    The game itself is extremely unstable and crashes frequently. The only people that would defend this game are partisan to the politics endorsed by it.    … Expand
  11. aristotle61
    Oct 29, 2017
    0
    I was hoping for a game, but instead I got politics. It's really hard to enjoy a game when you feel like the developer is just using their game as a vehicle to let you know how they view the US and it's people.

    Sadly, there are a lot more problems than just the politics. The characters themselves, the character models, dialog, and story are terrible. My favorite person in the game was    I was hoping for a game, but instead I got politics. It's really hard to enjoy a game when you feel like the developer is just using their game as a vehicle to let you know how they view the US and it's people.

    Sadly, there are a lot more problems than just the politics. The characters themselves, the character models, dialog, and story are terrible. My favorite person in the game was Sigrun Engel. What does that say about the other characters in the game, including BJ?

    The actual game play is good, but it's almost impossible to enjoy the game considering all of the other flaws. It's hard to believe this game was made by the same developer that made the last game. I really liked that game. Now it seems like even that game is tarnished. It makes me wonder if some of the programmers from Mass Effect Andromeda got hired by Machine Games.    … Expand
  12. SimKnight
    Oct 29, 2017
    0
    I enjoyed the other two Wolfenstein games, But... This was rubbish ! Cut scenes are way way too long and very lefty political ! I was expecting they would improve and update the Wolfenstein Nazi shooter, but it looks like the developers got bored and spent the time adding very left wing propaganda cut scenes of three and half hours long +++ Dull as dish water. I've played many good PC fpsI enjoyed the other two Wolfenstein games, But... This was rubbish ! Cut scenes are way way too long and very lefty political ! I was expecting they would improve and update the Wolfenstein Nazi shooter, but it looks like the developers got bored and spent the time adding very left wing propaganda cut scenes of three and half hours long +++ Dull as dish water. I've played many good PC fps and adventure games and this must be the lowest in my honest opinion. You will wish you had spent your hard earned money on another game, believe me. Good luck in finding a fun game to play without politics being rammed down your throat :( Story + Gameplay + Performance + Fun = 0… Expand
  13. gyigyo2
    Oct 28, 2017
    1
    Positive:

    -Hitler in the game

    Negative:
    -Story and the cutscenes is like a C category movie.
    -Gameplay is boring
    -Anya and DJ or BJ? blazkovizs is a typical superhero,
    -Voice acting is horrible why BJ is always so calm?
    - Facial express is horrible for a late 2017 game
  14. Nesthunt
    Oct 28, 2017
    1
    Stuttering, freezing, crashes, black screen frozen, fps drops, audio sounding fuzzy, blurry 720p looking textures, Chromatic Aberration added to game, Vulkan Vulkan is worst here lot of graphical bugs. Same problems I have with the new doom is black screen freezing and buncha graphical bugs like outlines all cause OpenGL/Vulkan.

    Just stop using OpenGL/Vulkan id in your engines please    Stuttering, freezing, crashes, black screen frozen, fps drops, audio sounding fuzzy, blurry 720p looking textures, Chromatic Aberration added to game, Vulkan Vulkan is worst here lot of graphical bugs. Same problems I have with the new doom is black screen freezing and buncha graphical bugs like outlines all cause OpenGL/Vulkan.

    Just stop using OpenGL/Vulkan id in your engines please add DX11 support soon. In the mean time I ain't neva buying id tech games again or id software ones.

    At least DX11 works better on Win 7-Win10. So please release a DX11 patch soon so I can finally play this game at a stable fps and have better and cleaner looking graphics like I do with witcher 3/new prey/elex/all other single-player games.    … Expand
  15. GrimBorne
    Oct 27, 2017
    1
    This games introduction so far is great, played 3 hours so far.

    There's alot of graphical artifactings. Cause the game is using Vulkan and not DirectX I'm getting a ton of black dot line shimmerings mostly in front of my view. This happens alot for most games using OpenGL/Vullkan most notable Wolfenstin: The New Order and Rage which are 2 id tech 5 games with OpenGL. Frankly I'm    This games introduction so far is great, played 3 hours so far.

    There's alot of graphical artifactings. Cause the game is using Vulkan and not DirectX I'm getting a ton of black dot line shimmerings mostly in front of my view.

    This happens alot for most games using OpenGL/Vullkan most notable Wolfenstin: The New Order and Rage which are 2 id tech 5 games with OpenGL.

    Frankly I'm done with this id Software not supporting DirectX11 on Winodws in their engines is making me never buy their games on their engines again.

    Directx on PC or bust. Last game I will ever buy on id tech.    … Expand
  16. Hrunishe
    Oct 30, 2017
    0
    Much worse than was the New order, a weak story, weak humor, average gameplay
    Disappeared grotesquely the Nazis, if the first part was interesting to watch, now it is not
    Left the game in the middle, it is not necessary to spend your time
  17. Hell_d
    Oct 27, 2017
    6
    My scores first:
    Visuals - 7/10 (all looking good, but definitely not "next-gen" )
    Sound - 7/10 - acting is top, all good with ambient, but guns.. gun are super flat. Gameplay - 5/10, gunplay doesn't feel powerful, levels are extreme corridor-minded. AI, super agressive - cool BUT you are can die from 3-5 good landed bullets even on easiest difficulty. You'll be dying a lot and you'll    My scores first:
    Visuals - 7/10 (all looking good, but definitely not "next-gen" )
    Sound - 7/10 - acting is top, all good with ambient, but guns.. gun are super flat.
    Gameplay - 5/10, gunplay doesn't feel powerful, levels are extreme corridor-minded. AI, super agressive - cool BUT you are can die from 3-5 good landed bullets even on easiest difficulty. You'll be dying a lot and you'll rage because epic moments gonna be ruined by insta-death from nowhere.
    Story - 6/10 - US under nazi setting is old and doesn't really work. Character's actions are not very natural.

    I start a game, excited and so on, it is Wolfenstein II let's kill some nazies.. oh.. what I'm looking at? Some unneeded drama from main hero's childhood. For some reason main hero is super attached to a character who was just a cardboard background in 1st game? O_o... Ooookay. Further cutscenes are trying to show me why Nazi's are a bad thing - I get it... but where is cheesy killing mfking nazies action I loved 1st game for? Nope.. still don't see it.

    Next 2-3 hours into the game, I'm raging because of super sensitive main hero's health bar.. it drops from 1 bullet to 10%... I lower difficulty level, nope, still same **** - AI is shooting with 100% precision. Oh! Epic moment, huge experimental soldier-robot appears in the middle of corridor, and...... shoots me dead with 1 bullet,replay from checkpoint>replay from checkpoint>replay from checkpoint>replay from checkpoint.... "i'd better stop playing for today.. may be tomorrow".

    So.. you get the idea. BUT I'd say it is very classic FPS from 2000-2005 times. Sadly gameplay is absolutely NOT like DOOM, which was fun, adictive, balanced.

    overall score: 6... sadly.    … Expand
  18. sammyflinders
    Oct 30, 2017
    10
    I just felt I HAD to give this game a review here to offset ever so slightly all the morons.

    This game is phenomenal. It tells a terrific story and is visually stunning. It seems the negative attention it's receiving is from A) morons who think it is a SJW statement masked as a game. B) (and this one is even more absurd) terribly optimised. To address both, no it is not a SJW    I just felt I HAD to give this game a review here to offset ever so slightly all the morons.

    This game is phenomenal. It tells a terrific story and is visually stunning.

    It seems the negative attention it's receiving is from
    A) morons who think it is a SJW statement masked as a game.
    B) (and this one is even more absurd) terribly optimised.

    To address both, no it is not a SJW peice, it is rather condemning of a Nazi ideology though so if that makes you uncomfortable maybe have a conversation with yourself.

    And secondly, the game is about as well optimised and polished a release on PC this year, hell even the last few years. Both this and Destiny 2 are fantastic examples of how to leverage the power of PC and deliver a visually stunning experience, with performance that scales very well across various configurations.

    The gunplay is fantastic, story is engaging, visual and aural presentation is phenomenal...honestly a standout title of the year. The current 5.6 user rating it has on metacritic is sadly a reflection of the community of gamers and not at all representative of the quality of this title    … Expand
  19. Rrichard
    Oct 27, 2017
    10
    Great gunplay, great performance, great story. What more can you want in a shooter? Really enjoying it so far. The alternate history is cool, and the characters are interesting. Definitely recommend buying.
  20. BigArms
    Oct 27, 2017
    9
    I’m going to start by saying that I have never played a Wolfstein game before. All developers should look at Wolfstein 2: the new colossus, admire and try to mimic the amount of optimisation that went into this title. The game runs smooth as butter on my 980 ti 4790k, unlike many big budget PC games.
    The story is great, way above your average evil vs good storyline. Controls are fine,    I’m going to start by saying that I have never played a Wolfstein game before. All developers should look at Wolfstein 2: the new colossus, admire and try to mimic the amount of optimisation that went into this title. The game runs smooth as butter on my 980 ti 4790k, unlike many big budget PC games.
    The story is great, way above your average evil vs good storyline. Controls are fine, gameplay in general feels balanced, nothing bad to say here. I think this one is a winner for me!    … Expand
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. passionne
    Sep 13, 2019
    7
    I finished the game and I appreciated it despite a few faults :

    Pros : - intense action - some epic combats and scenes - good weapons sound and feeling - dialogs are excellent with some humor - good optimization - graphically above the average (high quality textures, light effects) but the faces resolution is not high enough - several eccentric places (New Orleans, german    I finished the game and I appreciated it despite a few faults :

    Pros :

    - intense action
    - some epic combats and scenes
    - good weapons sound and feeling
    - dialogs are excellent with some humor
    - good optimization
    - graphically above the average (high quality textures, light effects) but the faces resolution is not high enough
    - several eccentric places (New Orleans, german subamrine, Ausmerzer)

    Cons :

    - Too few weapons
    - enemies are stupid : no strategy, they run towards the player without any cover.
    - levels are too skimpy
    - not enough enemies variety    … Expand
  27. Klayzor
    May 19, 2018
    4
    After playing the brilliant Wolfenstein New Order and solid (if not equally good) Old Blood, I was really looking forward to New Colossus. I was fairly sure it will be my GOTY.
    However, I am extremely disappointed - the writing is plain bad, the humor and humanity so present in the first game vanished and were replaced by unfunny jokes by unlikeable characters. The impact and authentic    After playing the brilliant Wolfenstein New Order and solid (if not equally good) Old Blood, I was really looking forward to New Colossus. I was fairly sure it will be my GOTY.
    However, I am extremely disappointed - the writing is plain bad, the humor and humanity so present in the first game vanished and were replaced by unfunny jokes by unlikeable characters. The impact and authentic emotions portrayed in New Order are just not there, it feels forced and is so badly written that the only thing missing are full-on fart jokes.

    And then there's the gameplay. The level design here is abysmal. You frequently have no idea what to do or how to get there. You're stopped by invisible walls, ledges that can't be jumped on for no apparent reason, vague objectives. The combat feels worse than in the previous game. All in all, this is a much, much worse game than the stellar Wolfenstein New Order. Avoid.    … Expand
  28. 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
  29. 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 ****
  30. Jstanley
    Nov 23, 2017
    1
    Couldnt bring myself to finish the game, it got way to political, I like killing nazi's as much as the next guy, but I feel it was too cringey at times, and was obviously talking about the "nazi's" present in America right now. I tried my best to ignore the political message, but it was too hard at times.
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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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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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