Why? Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of reasons, but what it really comes down to is that it feels like a game trapped between two worlds. This, you see, is my dark secret, my deepest shame as someone who is best known for his love of Id’s recent work – I didn’t like Wolfenstein: The New Order. But it’s not hard to see why people were excited – the last game in the Wolfenstein series and the first game in this reboot canon, The New Order, put Id Software back on the map, was a massive critical and commercial success, and reintroduced a generation to the joys of singleplayer first-person shooters that are about fun, fast-paced action instead of wall-hugging quote-unquote “realism.” As for me, well, I’m sure you can guess my thoughts – as a huge proponent of old-school FPSes, a particular fan of Id Software, and a collector of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein shlock, I was…extremely disappointed. The trailer itself featured weird live-action television nonsense, deadpan voice acting and incredibly wobbly animations – it was all very Bethesda. So, this week was E3, and among all the announcements and the trailers and the stuff that’s gonna turn out to be blatant lies later and the OHMYGODHYPE the game that most caught the attention of the sort of people I follow was Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. All I’m asking is that you trust me, as someone who has the same obsession with classic FPSes you do, and that you hear me out while I give Wolfenstein The New Order what is quite possibly its first-ever Second Opinion. I know that there’s a good chance that if you’re watching this you have a deep and abiding love for Wolfenstein as a series and for its latest entry in particular. After all, our two most-watched videos are about Doom 2016, which was also Hey Poor Player’s game of the year last year, and I have a brand new show all about Doom which you should check out if you haven’t already. Now, I know that you’ve read the title already, and I know that a lot of the people who follow this channel are big fans of old-style shooters, particularly those made by Id. Hi, everybody! Doctor I Coleman here with a PhD in not getting to go to E3. Games that are in desperate need of…a Second Opinion. Games that everyone always makes the exact same comments about. Games whose actual qualities have been buried in a narrative, whether good or bad. Games that everyone has an opinion on, regardless of whether they’ve played them or not. This is a series about games EVERYONE has heard of. This is not a series about games you haven’t heard of.

Wolfenstein the new order metacritic