From what I've seen the general consensus is that this game is inferior to The New Order and Old Blood (I haven't played Old Blood yet so my comparisons will be mostly from New Order) but I actually found myself liking this game more.

Now storywise in terms of depth and the depressing tone yeah New Order is superior but I still think the story works in this. The story is a lot lighter in tone but it still can be serious when it needs to be and kinda gives it a Tarentino movie vibe (also helping that the comedic scenes are generally pretty funny) and while I appreciated the lack of restraint in showing the horrors of the Nazis in the previous game they are both still Wolfenstein and should have some level of absurdity and I think if they showed more concentration camps or horrible experiments it would just be repeating story points unless they got really creative with it. I also like how the story has some sense of progress. In New Order, for the most part the resistance didn't really have any grand plan but made it up along the way which worked because it showed the desperation the resistance had at the time. In New Colossus now that the resistance has all its stolen Nazi tech, they form an actual plan. So almost every action in this game is united under a main goal of liberating America.

But enough about the story I'm a gameplay guy first and foremost. And this is the main reason I prefer it to New Order. Now I think that games combat was great but when the going got tough in later levels, I always found myself falling into the same strategy of hiding in a corner with a charging station and abusing the Minigun and multishot upgrade for the lasergun. Here if I tried that same strategy, I would've never completed this game. The combat is much more hectic thanks to the wider enemy variety and better weapon variety this time around (as of note the schockhammer might just be the most glorious shotgun I have ever wielded). I also love how you can sprint full speed while dual wielding. I get originally there was a trade off of increased firepower at the cost of slower speed but I almost never found myself single wielding any weapon that had a dual wield option so it could get a little tedious. The sprinting definitely gave this game a true run and gun style game. That combined with the various weapon upgrades, wide set of heavy weapons, the ability to dual wield different types of weapons at once, enemy variety, and the various perks of the contraptions created such a vast and wide array of options for approaching both combat and stealth and it had a crazy good soundtrack to back it up.

Now the main reason this has the same score as New Order despite me liking New Colossus more is primarily because of one huge flaw in my eyes. That being a lack of a new game plus. I mean come on one of the most fun parts of linear games is blitzing through earlier levels while maxed out and this game isn't open world so I don't understand how they couldn't put in an option to full on replay chapters. And it just doesn't feel the same through these level areas with the oberkommando missions as they lack the story cutscenes and some the moments are some of my favorite moments in any story driven game. But the moment to moment gameplay is still a fine as hell experience that I definitely recommend.