Wolfenstein: The New Order Pre-Orders Get DOOM Beta Access

[Arnoxthe1]

Nice. May 28? I can wait. Also a good sign that they slashed multiplayer for it, believe it or not. Means that at they devoted a whole lotta resources to the single-player.

HOWEVER, last I heard of Doom 4, it was going through development hell (no pun intended). Wonder how the beta will be. Hopefully they picked themselves out of the mud.

 

[AstaresPanda]

This......now THIS is a sequel. And i like how they are like yeeeeh Multiplayer is not going to work so fuck it. No sense it adding extra work to somthing that does not seem to work well. Noting wrong with single player games, co-op might be good. But it did interest me with DOOM.Perhaps not enough to get me pre-ordering but still im waiting on somthing more solid in the DOOM department before anything.

I will say this, finding it weird no ID logo around This game or in relation to DOOM.

 

[Dalisclock]

I admit I'm intrigued.

And while torturing someone with a chainsaw is pretty out there, he's torturing a Nazi with a chainsaw. It's hard to say that's a bad thing.

 

[Kahani]

I'm getting some worrying tonal inconsistencies here. The music, the robots and the goofy villains all point to a campy, Tarantino-style alternate history romp, but then you've also got this really brutal looking gore and violence and GRRR FREEDOM WARRIORS. It's like the game can't decide whether it wants to be serious or a parody of the kind of game this would be if it was serious.

I'm not sure what you find worrying about that. Sounds like a perfect description of the previous Wolfenstein games really. Brutal gore and violence combined with zombies and mecha-Hitler.

Wolfenstein: The New Order will be available in North America on May 29, with the European release following on May 23.

That's... not what "following" means.

 

[PsiCoRe]

A little pissed off that they'd announce this when there hasn't even been the slightest update on Doom in ages.

 

[ShakerSilver]

A Doom game without Carmack, Romero, and Hall working on it? Guaranteed failure.

 

[Aussie502]

RtCW and Wolf:ET offered some of the best MP experiences from the early to mid 00's. I'm kinda sad they aren't bringing back that old formula for the new generation.

 

[Stavros Dimou]

This looks just stupid, why would you ever introduce serious story elements and character arcs in Wolfenstein? RtCW wasn't the best entry in the series because of its intelligent and insightful narrative. Those cutscenes make it look more like Killzone than anything else.
Oh well, at least the gameplay seems decent, hopefully the narrative won't be nearly as prominent as the trailer makes it look like.

The thing with RTCW is that it had a unique atmosphere and feeling.
Its story was influenced by real conspiracy theories,and it had that dark vibe with Nazis doing satanic rituals,and the whole presentation was like that of a 'serious' thriller / horror movie,with nazis.
Instead the direction Raven took for the 2009 game of the series,and the direction this trailer seems to point at,is what you would expect from a Marvel Superhero comic book.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was more like F.E.A.R. with nazis than Duke Nukem with Nazis.

This game is more like "you are the cool badass protagonist with superpowers/that was frozen in carbonite,that is going to beat the evil guys because they are evil".

RTCW was like "you are a simple covert ops soldier that is captured by the enemy and you find out they bring satanic spirits on Earth as you try to get away"



Oh and in another note: That awkward moment when the open beta of a game is announced before the game itself.