The follow-up to MachineGames’ acclaimed first-person shooter Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus has arrived to take out some Nazi tail, and reviews are beginning to trickle out like blood from protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz’s nose. We’ve got our strongest soldier Alex Stinton working his way through this one as we type, so expect our verdict to arrive soon.
DualShockers - 9.5/10
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus has become the new benchmark for single-player shooter campaigns. The sheer amount of freedom that players have to go along with the excellent gunplay make it one of the best shooters in years on those merits alone. Add in what is one the year’s most compelling, important narratives and you have a recipe for an instant classic on your hands. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus isn’t just 2017’s best shooter, it’s a game that will be looked back upon as one of the standout titles of this generation when it comes to an end.
Polygon - 9/10
B.J. is comfortable killing thousands upon thousands of his enemies if they stand between him and a bit of peace. But killing isn’t all that Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus offers. It’s the rare first-person shooter that explores the first time its hero pulled a trigger; it’s the rare first-person shooter that is comfortable connecting with the primal, untamed parts of your brain while celebrating just how fucking good it feels to lay out a Nazi.
Gadgets 360 - 9/10
Clocking in at around 15 hours, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a big, booming shooter with a well-paced plot, slick levels, and great gunplay - a package we don’t see very often in 2017. October might be a crowded month, but this is one game that needs to be experienced.
Hardcore Gamer - 4/5
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus delivers an enjoyable action packed first person shooter experience. The alternate take on history makes for an interesting story populated by characters who are easy to care about. The characters that the player is supposed to hate are quite easy to despise since the game doesn’t hold back about cranking up their despicable level. Some sequences are hard to sit through since they don’t shy away from racism, antisemitism, animal cruelty, domestic violence and just sadistic behavior in general, but this features Nazis, so expecting sunshine and rainbows would be a naive viewpoint. Overall Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus delivers a memorable experience that isn’t afraid to pull punches to get an emotional response but still maintains the over the top action movie camp factor. Most importantly, it delivers fast paced shooting action and explosive carnage which is what people typically want from a first person shooter.
Did you Nazi these high reviews coming? God, we've really overused that pun now, haven't we? Look, just tell us whether you're planning to buy this game in the comments section below.
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no surprise.this is one of the best games ever.fps story campaign at its best.word up son
I am playing this day one.
Nice one. It's up against the toughest release dates of the year but hopefully it sells well. I'm not big on first person shooters but I've always enjoyed strong single player story campaign FPS games (the likes of Resistance, Doom etc) so will be looking to pick this up at some point over the next month or so.
Woah!
I really need to catch up so I can play this. It sounds great
I'm so happy with these reviews, i was Goering on the side of caution being the follow up to such a great game, but it looks like they have knocked it out of the park...
@roe We NEED to get Resistance back!! I mean that game was an underrated PS3 franchise
@Quintumply I think its on the PSN store at the moment in the Halloween sale... get the main and expansion too.. great games all around.. thoroughly recommend them
Nice, I think Alex is reviewing this one for you guys?
Word up son!!!
Can't wait for this one. I'm buying it tomorrow to support day one but won't be able to play it until next week unless I get lucky and find some time this weekend...
The last one was the best story driven FPS since HL2.
I want it but I'm gonna play The Old Blood first. For a gung ho American soldier in a FPS game, Blazkowicz is one cool cat.
@dellyrascal Yeah, I'll likely grab it at the end of the week
I still haven't even played The New Order yet, but recently bought it in the PSN sale for just £3.99! Will almost definitely get The New Colossus at some point as well, but it won't be for a while - I just have too many games to play right now!
Wasn’t expecting this high praise. Sounds interesting.
@AzlanWake13 easily my top 5 ps3 games ever.and my top 5 favorite franchise ever.you should play the psp resistance.it's great word up son
Had a feeling this would be brilliant. Very much looking forward to it.
Of all the games releasing recently it was Wolfy that I decided to support first, despite being something of a Assassins Creed fan.
I just felt that from everything I had seen, the quality of this game stood out most, moreover, I thought it might be better to let a few patches release before I picked up A.C.
Super pleased to see such a positive critical reception, I just hope it does as well commercially.
Poor man's Splatoon
I am so excited about this game.
Nice reviews! Can't wait to blast nazis and save the world again!
The other two games are great so I had high hopes for this one and I shall be getting it in the very near future despite a backlog that'd stretch to the moon and back!
Need to play the first one, already got it on steam sales, but I'm to tired to play another first person shooter.
I thought Bethesda had said they were not sending out review code until after its customers had chance to experience the game (that is until after it releases)? Does this mean that they've found that policy hasn't had a positive effect on sales?
Definitely picking this up and Assassin's Creed origin ,man I need to get another job! Day one purchase for both!
As a German, the thing I love the most about Wolfenstein is how on point the dialogue is. Wonderfully immersive.
I wish I could just pick up it up, but my wallet is on lockdown for the JRPG onslaught in early 2018.
Knowing Bethesda the game will be dirt cheap by then anyways.
@Octane How is it a poor man's splatoon? I see no neon, vomit inducing colors or terrible call-backs to the 90's. Do you have to pay a premium to get that stuff in a shooter
This is actually the only game I have really been waiting for this Q4...! Just got confirmation my copy has been sent out. Tomorrow will be a good day!
Amazing! I want it so much but with Super Mario and Assassin's Creed...I just gotta wait
Definately buying this! 😀
@twinspectre90 why is that
This game will kick***, day one for me.
lots of positive reviews, though the new order got good reviews too, and i didn't actually like that game that much.
I'm really glad this is getting good reviews, my plan was to get it not day one tho unfortunately because I bought Assassin's Creed.
@RedMageLanakyn I believe his comment is a reference to what I said in the De Blob article, lol.
@KirbyTheVampire @RedMageLanakyn Yah, that's what ye get if I'm trying to be funny.
I'm sorry, I'll see myself out...
@Octane It's all good, I was joking. I didn't know if there was an inside joke or reference I missed, I didn't have any caffeine for the day when I made that comment!
@twinspectre90 no it's really not you're killing nazis while the game provides a powerful story according to reviews
@leucocyte no the new order didn't get the reviews it deserved and finished with a 76 metascore. This one so far is sitting at 89 and from what I've seen and heard it deserves it
@playstation1995 How did you get this early! I'm jealous.
Day one baby
@twinspectre90 pushing a political agenda? I’m not the biggest history buff but I think it’s generally accepted that Nazis were bad, really bad, war atrocity genocide racist evil bad and stopping them was one of the most important events in the history of mankind. What’s the political agenda here? Vote conservative? Vote republican? Don’t give Nazis a hard time?
@twinspectre90 I think being anti-Nazi is an agenda worth pushing, unless you're pro-genocide.
Wolfenstein The Old Blood should have been game of the year. I loved it so much I had to buy Wolfenstein 2 Collectors Edition.
@DLB3 Ikr stop oppressing Nazis, we need to be sensitive to their different cultural background.
That's impressive! I don't know if I want to wait for the switch version, or get this :/
Cant wait for this! Getting my collector's edition tonight at 9!!
Loved the last ones as well. Normally I would wait for a sale but I'm feeling compelled to buy this day one, full price.
@Nightcrawler71 $3.99? Wish I would of seen that
@ellsworth004 it's been on for that price a few times now.
Just got my copy, hopefully get a chance to play it a bit tomorrow.
@kyleforrester87 I was wanting to play the first one before getting the new one. Been waiting to find it on sale...
@ellsworth004 It's still £3.99 now, in the UK/EU at least. It's in the Halloween deals section, along with The Old Blood at the same price.
@Nightcrawler71 thanks for the info. I'll check it out when I get off work today.
@ellsworth004 Get on it the first ones awesome
@twinspectre90 going back to your original post what’s the political agenda? It’s a game where the story is about if Nazis won the war. Being annoyed because they didn’t focus on other bad people instead doesn’t mean there is a political agenda.
@twinspectre90 I think you’re reading way too much into it
@twinspectre90 Ummm what? I'm not saying Hitler was the only terrible person to ever exist. Of course there are others, and yes, there are a few people that have ended more lives than Hitler. Does that not make Hitler a disgusting waste of skin that didn't deserve to live, and does that not make Hitler someone worth hating and turning into a video game villain?
If you want the people who killed more people than Hitler to be cast as a villain in a video game, that's totally fine, but I would say Hitler is probably the most well-known dictator/genocidal maniac to ever exist, and that's largely why there are so many movies and games and stuff with him in them. People know who he is, unlike a lot of other dictators.
I really don't see how my logic says I love genocide, either. Where did that idea even come from?
@KirbyTheVampire there are some arguments you just cannot win.
@KirbyTheVampire @christhomas251 @dark_knightmare2 Soo,First off -The issue isn't shooting nazis,its non nazis being smeared as nazis. The ad campaign was a clear pat on the head for frothing leftys,such as antifa who have been for example assaulting people who are bald or have a short back and sides (NAZI HAIRCUT!) These leftists call anyone and everyone a Nazi.Thus,average anti-nazi people have a problem when MG/Bethesda is spouting the same rhetoric and hashtags.. implying average non leftists are nazis.Second -TNC is drowning in filthy,hardcore communism - The "good guys" Communism is terrible.Thats not all either,but i will leave it there for now.
@kyleforrester87 not in na sale 😔
@ellsworth004 damn! Get it anyway
@kyleforrester87 yeah I think I will!
playing now and loving it
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