At their 2010 Digital Day event yesterday, Ubisoft announced that DLC for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game should be hitting the digital marketplace in November. This of course is the perfect time to release said DLC, as it coincides with the DVD and Blu-ray release of the film.
While some video games overwhelm you with sheer scale, titles like Asura's Wrath and Doom Eternal make you the boss player right upfront.
Wolfenstein: The New Order turns ten years old today, so we decided to play it again and discovered just how much of an extinct kind of game it is.
It's an outstanding game and so was The Old Blood. Also a lost era of gaming. Interesting, I received a physical copy of The Old Blood 9 years ago today from Poland. It was digital only in North America initially upon release so I had to import.
Wolfenstein: The New Order launched 10 years ago today, but can it stand up to the modern FPS titles it inspired?
I disagree. Its still a fantastic game, with very good gunplay and a surprisingly loveable cast of characters and a good story trough many different and interesting setpieces
All The New Order needs for my tastes is a this gen enhancement patch.
I played New Order a couple of years after launch and I give it an 8/10. The shooter holds up because it is focused on being a good shooter. There is no crafting, no RPG elements, no open world find the question mark Weapons are fun. Enemies are fun. Levels offer a nice mix of stealth and shooting. You get to be the predator; this isn’t a game about fending off waves of enemies while a robot companion unlocks a door. Most importantly, New Order is the last of a dying breed of single player shooters.
Singleplayer shooters are still getting released every year, just look up "boomer shooters" and you'll find an an abundance of them. AAA fps campaigns, not so much.
Last year had Trepang2, RoboCop: Rogue City, Turbo Overkill, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, Dread Templar, Sprawl and more
The games you mentioned are not from AAA developers. Wolfenstein likely had a budget that was probably as big as all those games you mentioned combined. I'm not knocking the new wave of retro shooters. I absolutely love them (I think some get much higher review scores than they deserve though). I just really wouldn't describe Wolfenstein as purely a boomer shooter based on the relatively cohesive story, with cut scenes and is fully voice acted. Full set piece moments.
AA development seems to be focused keeping the single player solo experience alive. But the big developers are only concerned about the MTX and milking players who enjoy multiplayer.
The age of AA shooters. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I like less expense, shorter games.
Weird all the Wolfenstein articles.
Can you guess what will be announced at Xbox showcase?
What Machine Games did with Wolfenstein franchise is awesome. The game play definitely to me , is still very fun to play !!!
Shame that they're not patching in drop in/drop out online co-op :(
>will be a patch to address issues with difficulty balancing
I didn't find the game that difficult. Once you've played through a level you generally know where all the enemies are. Granted, the AI can be quite annoying when it does the "I know exactly where to stand so that your attacks don't hit me but mine hit you" tactic.
The only real tough bit was Gideon's second form. If you lost the sword then it's quicker to just restart the level and try again.
this patch is about as useful as a wet cigarette.... oh well at least the blu-ray is coming in 2 more months...
I understand that they are trying to go for the retro feel, and as we all no in old school gaming, you had to actually have friends over to play multiplayer, but online multi would have made this game, like, triple rainbow.
I get the feeling Ubi is going to abandon it. Hope this isn't the case. There's so much that can be done in this world and with these characters. This game has legs.