As William 'BJ' Blazkowicz, you join forces with what little resistance still lingers, fighting to bring down the New Order and define a future that has more in common with our own. The science-fiction side of things is turned up to eleven, with laser weapons, giant robots and genetically enhanced super-soliders all part of an alternate 1960s in which racial purity is paramount and the Beatles must sing in German. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, Wolfenstein: The New Order imagines space-faring, atomically assisted Nazis running the planet. It's an interesting game and, while I don't think there's a lot to make it stand out, there is quite a lot to say about it.Ī favourite topic of alternate history authors is the allies losing the Second World War and Axis forces running rampant across the globe. Sometimes it even manages to pull these off, while other times it misses the mark, in much the same way that it is sometimes an exciting and accomplished first-person shooter, yet at other times it falls flat. Among its furious gunfights and science-fiction slaughter, it introduces reflection, romance, sadness and sentimentality. Wolfenstein: The New Order has moments where it tries to remind you that war's chief consequence is suffering.
I'm told that, despite being decorated for his actions in the Second World War, he spoke of arbitrary and unglamorous experiences of men drowning in harbours miles from the action because gangplanks collapsed beneath them. My grandfather, like all my grandparents, died before I was born, so I didn't get to hear any of his war stories first-hand.
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