Get this: Every time you fire your weapon, the recoil pushes your wheelchair back. ![]() Blazkowicz slaughtering Nazis in a wheelchair. Wolfenstein II seems like it might recapture the same magic, bringing the Nazi threat to a conquered America, continuing with its alt-history into the 1970s, and with an opening level that features longtime protagonist B.J. And that blend makes perfect sense once you find out that a lot of Butcher Bay alums worked on this new-era Wolfenstein. Its 2014 predecessor, Wolfenstein: The New Order ($20 on Amazon), is one of my favorite shooters of the past decade and pretty high on the list of my favorite games, period-a near-perfect blend of dumb ‘90s-style shooting with Escape From Butcher Bay-esque stealth sequences. If Divinity II isn’t my most anticipated (or, heaven forbid, it turns out to be terrible) then Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus($60 on Amazon) takes the award.
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