Thursday, April 3, 2014

News::MachineGames Wolfenstein: The New Order is as surprising as it is bombastic - Edge

Edge : "As we begin our time with the opening three chapters of Wolfenstein: The New Order, the last game wed ever expect to compare it to is The Last Of Us. And almost from the start were dual-wielding machine guns and fending off Nazi-branded robotic quadrupeds no surprises there. Yet while the tone throughout is more Inglourious Basterds than The Pianist, in terms of character development, believable humanity and sheer pathos, MachineGames appears to be squaring up to Naughty Dog. This is even more surprising given that protagonist BJ Blazkowicz, a man whose neck is wider than his already sizeable jaw, has previously acted as little more than a graphene-thin cipher in a series increasingly synonymous with unremarkable and outdated design. But when, during a meal with a Polish couple whose granddaughter he has just rescued, Blazkowicz discovers that its 1960 14 years after the botched operation that landed him in an asylum with a head injury and that the Nazis won t...



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