Otherwise, the reasons this isn’t a fully-fledged sequel are quite apparent as The Old Blood borrows heavily from The New Order and the last few Wolfenstein titles for set pieces, themes and areas, perhaps most notably from Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The big bad you spend much of the game at odds with is probably the standout new addition. It keeps the story-telling formula of The New Order, peppered with narrative voiceovers and gloriously cheesy 80’s action hero dialogue, but a swifter run-time means side characters don’t get quite as much fleshing out here. Naturally things go wrong quickly and head ever-downhill from then on. Blazkowicz is going undercover to infiltrate the menacing Castle Wolfenstein. We come into play as gruff-voiced protagonist -and man with arms of steel- B.J. The Old Blood falls back into the timeline of those earlier entries, taking place entirely in the alternate 1946 where the Nazis were not pushed back on D-Day. Now, a year later, the developers have decided to pay further respects to the series’ past with The Old Blood a standalone prequel outing that features both a return to and escape from the nefarious Castle Wolfenstein. A blend of revised late 90’s shooter mechanics and design with a Tarantino-esque exploitation film sheen saw to it that the latest Wolfenstein was well received and put the franchise in rude health once again after the lamentable 2009 entry nearly scuppered the long-running series. Last year Machine Games managed to refresh the grandaddy of first-person shooters with The New Order.
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