This was the series that featured 'Mecha-Hitler' as a boss and stars square-jawed '80s action man BJ Blazkowicz. Their former home of Starbreeze is of course well known for making story-driven FPS', but Wolfenstein? The first three games were about escaping from the titular castle, and the last two were all about Nazis, pseudo-science, cyborgs and zombies and not much else. Perhaps the biggest surprise is how much of an emphasis MachineGames has put on The New Order's story.
Time to bring some insanity back to the genre and get psyched. A new team, MachineGames, spun off from one of my favourite developers (Starbreeze), desperate to prove themselves on the grandaddy of the entire FPS genre. Now thanks to the overwhelming popularity of Call of Duty and every publisher's desire to chase that crowd the genre has become bland and predictable, the lessons of Half-Life 2 forgotten, so now in 2014 there are only two FPS' I find myself interested in: the just-announced Far Cry 4 and Wolfenstein: The New Order. As recently as 2013 I would've said without hesitation that the first-person shooter was my favourite gaming genre.
