I love how fucking angry everything in The New Order is. The game is outraged at the injustice of its setting and everything is screaming at you to fight back. Wake up. Do SOMETHING.
From the moment you boot it up you're greeted with a hard wall of furious noise, and the soundtrack never lets up- every track is loaded with adrenaline and wrath. Blowing Nazi heads to paste is made ten times more satisfying when the backing guitar is roaring and the drums are thumping in time with every bullet.
Every single character is seething- it goes without saying that every member of the Resistance is from top-to-bottom livid at the Nazis, but even after the globe has fallen to pure evil the Nazis continue to burn the world to cinders in bigoted wrath. General Deathshead puts on a better front than most, but as his compound crumbles and his soldiers die in droves the mask of sophistication slips more and more until you're left with a shrieking, raving madman- far from the calculated cruelty he relishes in during the prologue.
Special mention goes to BJ, of course. Even when there's nothing but you and the corridors his inner voice is a whisper of controlled, focused fury. He's far from the chattiest protagonist in the medium but every single word out of his mouth oozes with contempt for the broken world he's woken up in.
The gameplay is visceral and mean. Knife wounds are deep and rough, blood pours out of each kill and explosions turn Nazis into goop. You relish in it.
An excellent revival of a classic series- can't wait to play the followups.
From the moment you boot it up you're greeted with a hard wall of furious noise, and the soundtrack never lets up- every track is loaded with adrenaline and wrath. Blowing Nazi heads to paste is made ten times more satisfying when the backing guitar is roaring and the drums are thumping in time with every bullet.
Every single character is seething- it goes without saying that every member of the Resistance is from top-to-bottom livid at the Nazis, but even after the globe has fallen to pure evil the Nazis continue to burn the world to cinders in bigoted wrath. General Deathshead puts on a better front than most, but as his compound crumbles and his soldiers die in droves the mask of sophistication slips more and more until you're left with a shrieking, raving madman- far from the calculated cruelty he relishes in during the prologue.
Special mention goes to BJ, of course. Even when there's nothing but you and the corridors his inner voice is a whisper of controlled, focused fury. He's far from the chattiest protagonist in the medium but every single word out of his mouth oozes with contempt for the broken world he's woken up in.
The gameplay is visceral and mean. Knife wounds are deep and rough, blood pours out of each kill and explosions turn Nazis into goop. You relish in it.
An excellent revival of a classic series- can't wait to play the followups.