[Join Aussie Jeff Effendi and American Christopher Matulich as they both review the newest iteration of Wolfenstein: intro by Jeff]
You’d think that a man with the initials ‘B.J.’ would try his best to stay away from special operation reports, but yet, here we are again, discussing the latest entry in id Software’s Nazi-killing franchise. Aptly titled plain Wolfenstein for current-gen gamers, Agent Blazkowicz’s latest adventure once again sees our hero gunning down up-to-no-good henchmen of Hitler’s.
Wolfenstein doesn’t play like your run-of-the-mill World War II first person shooter (FPS); it takes place in an alternate timeline, a time when Germans spoke with bogus American accents. This, in turn, has also meant that gamers aren’t locked to the same old discourse of the Allied v Axis battles, corroded, rusty rifles, pointy Balaclavas and Stalin’s moustache. That said, there’s probably only one question you want answered: Just how good is a war that allows you to revolt against occult-experimenting Nazis? Read more… »
