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Game is pretty good, story is very entertaining. I will say the game has a couple of issues in the gameplay, stealth is encouraged but not particularly fun, especially considering the lineage of this game being run and gun shoot nazis. As a note on that in many of the later levels do to the design of the map the best way to play is to stand as far back and pick of enemies before they get to you which didn't really feel great. On top of that the last level really drags because of all the absolute bullet sponge enemies when the tone of the story and stakes should have you moving as fast as you can you can to save your friends and finally defeat deathshead but instead you are forced to move at a glacial pace firing seemingly endless bullets into a bunch of uninteresting enemies. Finally the bosses(like in old blood) are pretty boring the first boss the London monitor is a puzzle boss that feels more like busy work than anything else. Then you have the fake out final boss which is a simple third times the charm mechanic that is again not very fun (you just play peekaboo and throw grenades) and then finally the two stage final boss against deathshead. Step one is again a puzzle avoid getting shot blow up some blimps. Phase two is a bullet sponge in an increasingly dangerous arena, ultimately this manages to be the most fun I have had with any bosses in the series, I haven't completed Youngbloods yet but I do not have particularly high hopes. Despite this compliment the boss is still ultimately disappointing. This game is truly carried by the story and great cast of characters without that it would just be a generic slog.

Reviewed on Aug 20, 2023


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