Can New Wolfenstein Recapture Former Glory?
It’s unlikely to be as ground-breaking as it once was, as one of the forefathers of the modern first-person shooter. But its alternate Nazi history of the world already evinces a darkly comic take that I’m in favor of…
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Yes, the new Gestapo are so evil they’ve usurped the Beatles. They hate you, yeah yeah yeah! Also, they have robot dogs and giant mechs, because in video games everybody has to have giant mechs.
What I miss is the health meter represented by a headshot of your increasingly bloodied face. That’s overdue for a comeback.
Gameplay trailer after the jump.
h/t SlyDante
About The Author
Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist