Voice acting is solid here, particularly for an FPS, and it certainly helps that there’s actually a reasonably interesting story that’s being brought to life. The game also takes you to a number of divergent locales, from England to the moon, and does a nice job mixing sci-fi elements with a historical baseline. It runs smoothly, features some cool destructible objects in the environment and has plenty of visceral action that even rivals the Gears of War sniper headshot.

Played on the Xbox One, The New Order looks like a beefed up 360 game in the same vein as other multi-generation releases like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Call of Duty: Ghosts. A few other options - like the ability to toss back grenades - don’t work as well they should, either, though again they’re just not prevalent enough to matter. They don’t handle great, but they’re so brief that it turns out to be a non-issue. There are a few brief moments of vehicular action as well. The firepower of firing two guns at once comes at the expense of accuracy, but that’s a standard tradeoff in shooters. The d-pad is used to alternate modes and attachments (such as equipping/detaching a silencer) or dual wield a weapon type as long as you’ve encountered at least two of them. Things are pretty straightforward with the setup as you can quickly switch between two weapons, while holding down the bumper brings up a radial menu with your full arsenal. Thus, it was with no small twinge of nostalgia that I dove into the latest reboot, Bethesda’s Wolfenstein: The New Order, a first-person shooter that asks the always interesting question: what if the Nazis won World War II? If we were to hop into the Wayback Machine and visit my baptism in the world of game reviews we’d find Activision’s Wolfenstein as one of my earliest endeavors. I’ll see you in hell, Kaiser Dookie von Poop Chute!

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