Wolfenstein: The New Order is a weird game. Its story can't decide if it's a comedy or a drama, its characters take themselves too seriously considering they're cartoon characters, and its tone is all over the place. One minute you're mowing down Nazi robots with dual machine guns. The next, a young woman watches soldiers slaughter her innocent family.
Everything hinges on this off-putting mixture of serious and silly going somewhere. After playing the first hour, I'm hopeful that Wolfenstein can work.
It puts a great villain in place with Dr. Deathshead, a sadistic Nazi whose introduction made my skin crawl. He locks BJ Blazkowicz's squad in a room, watches as the walls close in on the Americans, and smiles. It's an eerie introduction that leads to Deathshead gouging out BJ's friends' eyes and trying to burn him alive. The escape leaves Blazkowicz comatose.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/06/the-schizophrenic-first-hour-of-wolfenstein-the-new-order
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