Wolfenstein: The New Order ... BLAM-BLAM! That guard did Nazi that coming I doubt very much when Philip K. Dick wrote The Man in the High Castle that he imagined the very same subject matter could be dealt with in such a rip-roaring, gore splattering, dual-wielding romp. The victorious Nazis are no match for Wolfenstein's B.J. Blazkowicz. Wolfenstein: The New Order Wolfenstein: The New Order – a …
and according to the small print after the rating "Wolfenstein: The New Order was tested on the PlayStation 4"
Note to El Reg editors - this information would be better displayed more prominently, my first questions about a game review are usually what platform reviewed, and what ones available
If I remember correctly, if the collection of initials is pronounced as a word (such as LASER then it is written as a normal word in that language, such as laser). On the other hand, if the initials in the collection of initials are pronounced separately, then they are written in capitals, such as NBC, BBC, UN and so on.
Although, that being said, I write TARDIS in capitals and pronounce it as a word, so I'm not very consistent.
"From what I've heard, German copies had Nazis replaced by The Regime and all swastikas were replaced by another logo."
Like this?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rbs+logo&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gfe_rd=cr&ei=NAN-U8qTAsXa8gfx0IGYBQ
"personally I can't think of a more brutally entertaining way to spend this coming Bank Holiday weekend."
A lady who likes FPS's??? I think I just fell in love. Want to get together over some Far Cry 3 multi-player? A little dual-play Splinter Cell? I'll be a gent and let you plant the first Claymore mine.
When you consider what else is out there, it's refreshing to see such focus on a single player game...
... even if it is yet another first person shooter...
I believe their structure is roughly like this for the average just-out game review:
* Headline - game title and pun
* Lede - connects the item being reviewed to something completely unrelated and extant, demonstrating also the value of a college English major
* Badass picture
* Starting game up, starting gameplay
* Badass picture
* Initial reviewer experience as they get into the game
* Badass picture
* Brief early plot discussion
* Badass picture (This one similar to one you may have seen in the trailer)
* How game mechanics work / comparisons to previous game versions
* Badass picture
* Technical operation
* Badass picture
* Game mechanics / game content discussion with developer or player point-of-view in mind
* Badass picture
* Discussion of game mechanics nuances or lack thereof
* Technically useful or descriptive picture
* Brief discussion of further gameplay experience of reviewer who is now getting into, or is really into, the swing of things
* Another picture
* Sum up
Note: ideally, each picture should be captioned with a pun pertinent to what's being shown in the picture.
Mouse certaily offers faster, more accurate aiming, but scrunching one's left hand into a claw for the keyboard element is murder, if held for any significant amount of time.
Aim assist and a decent gamepad, please (along with resigning oneself to getting repeatedly owned in multiplayer).
Better than PC and Xbox One... The PC version is really poor apparently, and Xbox One version only slightly better.
And before the PC gaming eliteists arrive with their FUD, PS4 has the entire game running from a single CPU/GPU pool of insanely fast GDDR5, and none of the legacy busses and bridges and fast/slow memory pools to have to deal with...
That's not 4K, more like 2.5K.
As a matter of fact 1440p is so far from 4K that it requires less than HALF of the total number of pixels rendered.
1440p is not a challenge for some time now, even a 2-y old, now ~$300 Radeon 7970 works more or less fine with 2560x1440 (sans latest-greatest or crappiest engines w/ all bling enabled) but a similarly priced GeForce GTX 770 should also do it if you want to stick to Nvidia, no need for a Titan.
As much as I like the PS4, and as much as it is better in the tech department over the X-Bone … both consoles are basically rebadged PCs with mad GPU specs. I weeped when I found out that the next gen consoles were falling to the x86 dark side. I'm guessing the PC version has the appeal that most id games have: the ability to churn out mods.
Sadly, it seems that this one wasn't made by id Software but by someone else using the idTech engine. Still I'd like to check it out. Though I'll have to do so on PC, because my stepson has been glued to GTA5 Online and I can't get him to give up the PS3...
It also has, in a very concrete sense, relatively little to do with Nazis. About as much as Star Wars has to do with spaceships.
"Wot no multiplayer? With a playtime of about 20-plus hours and no multiplayer, some may quibble at the £40 price tag, but personally I can't think of a more brutally entertaining way to spend this coming Bank Holiday weekend."
Masturbation is a lot cheaper and given the lack of multiplayer works out to be about the same in terms of satisfaction.
SS (who'll stick with RTCW/ET, even if they are "ancient")
(coat for obvious reasons)
Haven't played an FPS in some time (was XIII an FPS or 3rd person, can't recall, that's how long ago).
This is making me a little nostalgic. Might just get it, might be the last game I get for the 360...
Last wolfie game I played left me feeling very Fable (that feeling when you let the marketing get you over-stimulated, resulting in depression after you finally get it and realise it doesn't meet the promises/expectations).
I stopped buying FPS games about 2 years or so ago due to them all being about 6 to 7 hours long, and I have little interest in multiplayer.
So that's two short, or one long session and your games done. Hardly value for money.
20 hours though, this might temp me back. Although PC for me.
I saw a demo the other night, and I so did my dear wife. We had a short, but strangely interesting conversation. She voiced an opinion that this is "disgusting" and "too much". Why, what's the problem? I asked, didn't you play those games when you were in your, ehm... teens, and such? Yes, she did. So, what's the problem? After all, you smeared the nasty nazis and blasted them to pieces just as well when they were more cubic, and "mmx" was the buzzword, etc. It's not like the games were "nice" 30 years ago, and suddenly they're all vicious and nasty NOW?! All that's changed is the hardware, better, faster, looks more realistic.
Well, actually, this was it - REALISTIC. She says that when you played THEN, because of this awful un-realism, you were well-aware you just played a silly game. Now (she was particularly moved to see the stab-to-the-neck sequences) it's just not... fun anymore. Stabbing people and blowing holes through them is not fun. It's too real, too close to killing and torturing real people.
Unfortunately she's got a point. Now I think I won't use a dagger in that game...
(this last remark would be a typical quip by the perfect "target audience". Roar of applause from his mates. My mates).
Except 'back then' one of the main complaints was the 'violent' games were to realistic and kids/people couldn't tell them from real life.
When you were younger you probably scoffed at those comments, now you are older (and, of-course, wiser) you are making the same comments and the kids are rolling their eyes and scoffing at you!
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