GearNuke: "Earlier this week, we shared a Wolfenstein: The New Order comparison GIF, which compared the PS4 version against the Xbox 360 version. The difference was huge in our eyes but many people didn't really take it as such. The point of that comparison was to show people that the difference between current generation and the previous generation is only increasing with time, although there are still a few cross-gen titles that hold well against their current gen counterparts. Wolfenstein: The New Order definitely isn't one of them, as the game seems to have been toned down significantly to meet the 60 fps frame rate target on previous gen."
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Wolfenstein: The New Order turns ten years old today, so we decided to play it again and discovered just how much of an extinct kind of game it is.
It's an outstanding game and so was The Old Blood. Also a lost era of gaming. Interesting, I received a physical copy of The Old Blood 9 years ago today from Poland. It was digital only in North America initially upon release so I had to import.
Wolfenstein: The New Order launched 10 years ago today, but can it stand up to the modern FPS titles it inspired?
I disagree. Its still a fantastic game, with very good gunplay and a surprisingly loveable cast of characters and a good story trough many different and interesting setpieces
All The New Order needs for my tastes is a this gen enhancement patch.
I played New Order a couple of years after launch and I give it an 8/10. The shooter holds up because it is focused on being a good shooter. There is no crafting, no RPG elements, no open world find the question mark Weapons are fun. Enemies are fun. Levels offer a nice mix of stealth and shooting. You get to be the predator; this isn’t a game about fending off waves of enemies while a robot companion unlocks a door. Most importantly, New Order is the last of a dying breed of single player shooters.
Singleplayer shooters are still getting released every year, just look up "boomer shooters" and you'll find an an abundance of them. AAA fps campaigns, not so much.
Last year had Trepang2, RoboCop: Rogue City, Turbo Overkill, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, Dread Templar, Sprawl and more
The games you mentioned are not from AAA developers. Wolfenstein likely had a budget that was probably as big as all those games you mentioned combined. I'm not knocking the new wave of retro shooters. I absolutely love them (I think some get much higher review scores than they deserve though). I just really wouldn't describe Wolfenstein as purely a boomer shooter based on the relatively cohesive story, with cut scenes and is fully voice acted. Full set piece moments.
AA development seems to be focused keeping the single player solo experience alive. But the big developers are only concerned about the MTX and milking players who enjoy multiplayer.
The age of AA shooters. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I like less expense, shorter games.
Weird all the Wolfenstein articles.
Can you guess what will be announced at Xbox showcase?
What Machine Games did with Wolfenstein franchise is awesome. The game play definitely to me , is still very fun to play !!!
That first "NEXT GEN" feeling for me: N64,Dreamcast,Xbox, and 360....this Gen is a little disappointing to me.
Bf4,killzone shadowfall, infamous second son dropped my jaw seeing it on my 60" LED
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i ordered wolfenstein ps4 on ebay and the dickwad sent me a spanish copy. no where in the description did it say it was spanish and the guy was selling the game from the U.S.
was wondering if anyone knew if there was a way i could set the game to english. dont want to open it incase there isnt. so i can return it.
not hating on spanish people so dont get mad but i cant read spanish.
The difference is definitely there but its not a "WOW" kind of difference. More like a "MEH"!
People forget that this is how the last gen was too. Cross gen games don't represent the next gen and people need to stop comparing them. The first year, most games aren't that big of a leap. Remember King Kong, Madden, Gun on the Xbox 360? Everyone was laughing about how it barely looked any different than the Xbox 1 versions. Then games like Oblivion and Gears of War started rolling out...