Out of all the video game genres, the first person shooter or FPS may be the most ubiquitous one. Shooting at random mooks with instruments of destruction that seem as if extensions of your own person tends to be hella immersive.
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 !!!
A look back at 4A Games' admirably consistent post-apocalyptic shooter franchise.
Some of my favorite FPS campaigns by generation are:
-8th Gen
1. Doom (2016)
2. Titanfall 2
3. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
4. Halo 5: Guardians (Bad story, good levels)
5. Wolfenstein: The New Order
-7th Gen
1. Far Cry 3
2. Bioshock Infinite
3. Halo: Reach
4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
5. Half-Life 2: Episodes 1 & 2.
-6th
1. Half-Life 2
2. Halo: Combat Evolved
3. Halo 2
4. Timesplitters Future Perfect
5. Star Wars:Republic Commando
- Bioshock 1 and Infinite
- TimeSplitters 2 and Future Perfect
- Wolfenstein: The New Order and Old Blood
- Medal of Honor (PS1), Underground, and Frontline
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 and 2
- 007 GoldenEye, Agent Under Fire, and Nightfire
- Perfect Dark
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Far Cry 3 and 4
- Borderlands 2
The title should be changed to “Best FPS games since 2007”. You can’t say ALL TIME and not have any of the great FPS campaigns that started the genre.
They are all great games and I'm not disagreeing or maybe its my nostalgia but all these games are after the millennium....
Exhumed on Sega Saturn,Quake 2 on PC, Goldeneye on N64 must be mentioned imo.