Wolfenstein: The New Order Trailer Goes Über on History

[Andy Chalk]

Wolfenstein: The New Order Trailer Goes Über on History

War never changes, except when the Nazis win and history twists and we need a top man like B.J. Blazkowicz to set things right.

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There's a sweet irony in the opening line of this Wolfenstein: The New Order trailer. "So much has changed," say Mr. Blazkowicz, hero of id Software's 1992 FPS Wolfenstein 3D, in which he gunned down Nazis by the truckload and saved the world from tyranny. He did it again that same year in Spear of Destiny, then Return(ed) to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001 and came back for more in 2009's Wolfenstein. And soon he'll be back again, this time in an alternate history in which the Nazis developed the bomb, nuked New York, conquered the world, recorded Abbey Road, went to the moon and presumably hit a whole mess of other pop-culture touchstones on their way to enslaving the planet.

But have no fear because B.J. is here, and he's brought a whole bunch of guns and a heavy back-beat with him. The gameplay doesn't start until the 1:35 mark and even then it's cut so fast that it's hard to tell what's going on, but we already know what's going on, don't we? Bullets fly, Nazis die! Boom! Take that, ya dirty ratzis!

Wolfenstein: The New Order is being developed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and next-gen consoles, and is expected to be out for the holidays.

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[Stavros Dimou]

Is it only me who can't take this trailer seriously ?
The stock google pictures edited with Microsoft Paint or something,makes it look b-movie and not serious.
If they didn't wanted to spend money on proper live and cgi clip production,it would be better to only use gameplay videos if you ask me. As it is,seeing a trailer of a major publisher consisting of 4chan quality edited images,it makes it feel like a parody to me instead of feeling like serious stuff.

 

[fix-the-spade]

I'm calling it now.

Time Machine!

But really the plot's just filler, explosions, robots, demons and mecha Hitler are what I'm waiting to see.

 

[rofltehcat]

Blocked in Germany
I can just see the tumbnail and yeah, stuff like that can be blocked here pretty easily. I wouldn't be surprised if the game gets put on the index of forbidden stuff. [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Indiziertes_Computerspiel]
(note: most Pre-2003 games are often on it because there was no USK 18 at that time, newer titles were classified as "severely endangering adolescents/youngers" because of iconography or massive excessed of brutality)

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

Is it only me who can't take this trailer seriously ?
The stock google pictures edited with Microsoft Paint or something,makes it look b-movie and not serious.
If they didn't wanted to spend money on proper live and cgi clip production,it would be better to only use gameplay videos if you ask me. As it is,seeing a trailer of a major publisher consisting of 4chan quality edited images,it makes it feel like a parody to me instead of feeling like serious stuff.

Yeah. That's the point, I think.

Edit: Color me actually excited for an FPS! Oh, (pseudo)WW2, I've missed you so much.

 

[The_Darkness]

You know I never realized it before watching MILK, but the way hitler is gesturing in the stock footage makes me think devotion to the Riech wasn't the only reason he never married.

Actually he did marry - for the last 40 hours of his life... (Hitler's last hours were an... interesting period. For want of a better word.)

Anyway, B-movie time travel future-punk game where I get to shoot space-Nazis? You have my attention, Wolfenstein (despite having never played any of your games before...)

 

[l3o2828]

Is it only me who can't take this trailer seriously ?
The stock google pictures edited with Microsoft Paint or something,makes it look b-movie and not serious.
If they didn't wanted to spend money on proper live and cgi clip production,it would be better to only use gameplay videos if you ask me. As it is,seeing a trailer of a major publisher consisting of 4chan quality edited images,it makes it feel like a parody to me instead of feeling like serious stuff.

I actually started laughing when i saw the Statue of Liberty image.
That one was the laziest of them all.
But yeah, i believe this isn't meant to be THAT serious...i think.

 

[Stavros Dimou]

Is it only me who can't take this trailer seriously ?
The stock google pictures edited with Microsoft Paint or something,makes it look b-movie and not serious.
If they didn't wanted to spend money on proper live and cgi clip production,it would be better to only use gameplay videos if you ask me. As it is,seeing a trailer of a major publisher consisting of 4chan quality edited images,it makes it feel like a parody to me instead of feeling like serious stuff.

Yeah. That's the point, I think.

Edit: Color me actually excited for an FPS! Oh, (pseudo)WW2, I've missed you so much.

Oh well. I guess it's fine if that's what they were going for.
But I expected it to be more on the "serious" side.

 

[Stavros Dimou]

Is it only me who can't take this trailer seriously ?
The stock google pictures edited with Microsoft Paint or something,makes it look b-movie and not serious.
If they didn't wanted to spend money on proper live and cgi clip production,it would be better to only use gameplay videos if you ask me. As it is,seeing a trailer of a major publisher consisting of 4chan quality edited images,it makes it feel like a parody to me instead of feeling like serious stuff.

I actually started laughing when i saw the Statue of Liberty image.
That one was the laziest of them all.
But yeah, i believe this isn't meant to be THAT serious...i think.

For me it was when I saw the album cover of The Beatles,with The Beatles replaced with Nazis...
I mean OK,if just adding swastikas to known monuments of the world wasn't lazy enough,at least let them be animated,or something unique. But taking over-popular still pictures and just adding nazis to them ?
I've seen fake trailers from fans on Youtube be more imaginative and looking more professional.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

an alternate history in which the Nazis developed the bomb, nuked New York, conquered the world, recorded Abbey Road, went to the moon and presumably hit a whole mess of other pop-culture touchstones on their way to enslaving the planet.

OK, I felt sure the Abbey Road line was a comedic exaggeration in reference to how silly the whole Wolfenstein concept is... then I actually saw it in the trailer video. Damn, gonna be keeping my eye on this one! Looks fun!

 

[l3o2828]

Is it only me who can't take this trailer seriously ?
The stock google pictures edited with Microsoft Paint or something,makes it look b-movie and not serious.
If they didn't wanted to spend money on proper live and cgi clip production,it would be better to only use gameplay videos if you ask me. As it is,seeing a trailer of a major publisher consisting of 4chan quality edited images,it makes it feel like a parody to me instead of feeling like serious stuff.

I actually started laughing when i saw the Statue of Liberty image.
That one was the laziest of them all.
But yeah, i believe this isn't meant to be THAT serious...i think.

For me it was when I saw the album cover of The Beatles,with The Beatles replaced with Nazis...
I mean OK,if just adding swastikas to known monuments of the world wasn't lazy enough,at least let them be animated,or something unique. But taking over-popular still pictures and just adding nazis to them ?
I've seen fake trailers from fans on Youtube be more imaginative and looking more professional.

Oh yeah, that one was brilliant aswell.

 

[Kyrdra]

Blocked in Germany
I can just see the tumbnail and yeah, stuff like that can be blocked here pretty easily. I wouldn't be surprised if the game gets put on the index of forbidden stuff. [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Indiziertes_Computerspiel]
(note: most Pre-2003 games are often on it because there was no USK 18 at that time, newer titles were classified as "severely endangering adolescents/youngers" because of iconography or massive excessed of brutality)

for me it isnt blocked and i'm from germany too.
I think they will get it a USk 18 but we will get a version without any Swastikas.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Releasing a trailer for a "What if the Nazis won?" scenario on D-Day...

I don't know if they did it on purpose, or whether it was an accident, but that it happened made me chuckle.

I'm going to assume that somewhere, people are annoyed about it though.

 

[yamy]

People who think the production looks lazy is missing the point. The entire premise wasn't meant to be taken seriously so the photoshoped stock photo feel actually helps to set the tone.

I mean come on. Time travelling Nazis with mechs?

 

[Glaice]

As much as it might be good, I am tired of Nazis as an enemy. Same applies to zombies as well.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

As much as it might be good, I am tired of Nazis as an enemy. Same applies to zombies as well.

These aren't exactly bog standard Nazis though, are they?

 

[Erttheking]

Time traveling Nazis with giant mechs and ripping off the Beatles with me being able to dual wield BFGs while gunning down Nazis...yeah I think this is going for a bit of a goofy element. They can still wrangle a good solid storyline out of it though, Fallout was proof that you could have a lot of goofy elements and still be taken seriously, but we'll see what they're going for.

It's not on the "MUST BUY" list yet, but it does look interesting.

Also if anyone wants some more gameplay footage, there's some in this video.

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[rofltehcat]

for me it isnt blocked and i'm from germany too.
I think they will get it a USk 18 but we will get a version without any Swastikas.

Yeah, they switched the video from a youtube vid to the Escapist's own service. It was blocked on youtube.