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It’s been almost 6 years since the release, so I decided to revisit the game and I loved it even more so than when I first played it. I don’t know if it’s because I played it on a different system, but I loved every minute of it. I can only hope that the future games are as good as this one.Wolfenstein: The New Order is a story driven first person shooter developed by Machine Games and published by Bethesda-Soft. The game is set in an alternate version of the 1960s where you take control of B.J. Blazkowicz, an American spy. After the events of 1946 you awake from a 14-year coma and discover that the Nazi’s have won World War II and now rule the world. You team up with a small group known as the resistance fighters on a personal mission to put an end to the madness.Wolfenstein: The New Order is very much fast paced and action-packed with the completion of the game taking between 8-10 hours. The game is broken down into either stealth or combat segments, meaning in some scenario’s stealth is required and on some going in all guns blazing is needed. Most of the time you do get to choose how you are wanting to play but being stealthy is the better and safer option. I learnt this when I decided to go down the aggressive route and I was bombarded with Nazi’s and machines which were heavily armoured. At times it was really frustrating and challenging to try and take them on all at once. So, I would advise you to try and take the stealthier approach.• The dialogue between the characters. It made me feel like I had a physical connection to each character, each for different reasons and that I cared about the characters unlike some games where you couldn’t care what happens whether they live or die no matter how important they are.• The tone of the game. It shifts from being serious to funny which you can argue with saying it shouldn’t be, it should be a really depressive setting however I personally feel if they went with that approach it would make the game far less enjoyable.• The game has a decent reward perk system. It’s not liked some games where you get points to put into a category. It’s more like achievements where once you complete certain tasks it will unlock the perk for you. You can see what you need to do to unlock these perks however it’s there to help you with your play style.• The game has a real nice engaging and well written story.• It’s refreshing to see how often your settings and surroundings is being changed, constantly at a new location so you’re not stuck in the same place all the time.• Large open levels that allow you to do some exploration, finding collectibles and Easter eggs if you decide to do so.• The AI isn’t that bad either. It uses the cover well and when attacking they normally hit the majority of the shots.• Even though I enjoyed the games story and loved fast paced action-packed games I do wish it would have gone slower as I wanted to see more of the story.• I would have liked to see more interactions between the characters as the only times you do interact with them is either when first meeting them or during some cutscenes. It would have been nice to be able to build a stronger bond with the characters especially due to the setting we are in.• The loading screens after you die, it takes a while before it allows you to respawn back at the recent checkpoint. I didn’t mind it too much but at a certain point of the game towards the end I ended up dying quite a lot and it started to annoy me how long I had to wait before I can try again.The games graphics were amazing even to the 2020 standards, so to see that back in 2014 was just great. The settings looked really nice, it seems like they focused on every single and small bit of detail to make sure it looked good. This comes down to the details on the gun to the facial expression on the characters to the animations in cutscenes and even to the small posters and articles that are littered throughout the game. It honestly looks like and felt like something out of a movie.The game sounds were good too, not often one to care about soundtracks but the ones in this were incredible and fit perfectly. The voice acting sounded great as well, I can’t talk about when they were speaking German or Polish but from my perspective it sounded good.During my time playing I didn’t come across any bugs or issues.Would I recommend Wolfenstein: The New Order? Yes. It’s an all-round decent FPS and this is from the time where the FPS genre was a wasteland, nothing good was coming out even from the big franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield. I mean who doesn’t want to go around blowing Nazi sh*t up? Well if that is you then don’t worry you can go and play stealthy. I would also like to say that the price is bang on, just right for what you’re getting hell, I’ll even pay more but if you are willing you are able to get The Old Blood as well in a bundle for an extra £5. I can’t wait to play the other games in the franchise to see how they will continue the story.