It’s been a busy week for me. Got bored with the MRT, got surgery on yet another tooth, and now I’m trying not to freeze to death with a major Arctic push from our good friends in Canada, sending temps to.. nothing (0F).
With my space heater behind me working overtime, and able to spend a whole day without looking at the sight of my own blood from a gauze that was in my mouth, I decided to finally play another game I bought but haven’t touched it for days. And that game is Wolfenstein: The New Order.
Since seeing it back in Christmas 2013 at my local Meijer, I wanted the thing. This being the third game of the jaunera that started the First Person Shooter craze. I expected an epic game with me kicking some major Nazi ass!
My original idea for the plot, our hero of the original Wolfenstein 3D and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, is tasked once again with kicking Nazi ass. It was going to be similar to Duke Nukem Forever, of him resting after kicking their asses before.
Another thought, what if this is a prequel to RTCW? Unfortunately I’ll never be able to find out, since I’ve hit a part where the game refuses to work…
Yes… this game is such a mess, that I’m not even going to bother telling you guys about it. Let’s just get right to the review, and I’m glad I didn’t buy this at full price.
The Good;
-You’re back doing what you do best; kicking Nazi ass.
-You can dual weld.
-It has a cool Wolfenstein 3D reference.
-Your assault rifle can turn into a fucking ROCKET LAUNCHER!!(after an upgrade)
The Bad;
-The plot.. it’s all over the place. It’s worse than Crysis 2 in trying to understand it.
-The map isn’t helpful.
-Waypoints aren’t helpful.
-No Quicksave/Quickload feature. All uses savepoints.
-Really, really gross scenes happen without warning. Far worse than any game I’ve played. Imagine glaring at a woman with blood coming out of her mouth. Excuse me?! I didn’t wish to see this! We’re not playing Quake or Dead Space here!
-The non-want to see sex scenes. “Hey. You got a moment? Sure, what do you need? Mind you, we still need that important part. Screw saving the world! Let’s have sex! Right here, right now!”… this isn’t the way to sell a game.
-All of your weapons are lost after every chapter change. You don’t always have the same weapons every chapter.
-The game is literally unplayable due to a bug that hasn’t been fixed since May 2014.
Yeah. That last one. That’s a biggy. It’s in the first of the final last three chapters of the game. After a cutscene, and then seeing yourself remove something from your body like the fucking badass that you are, the game’s FPS tanks without warning, making it literally unplayable.
But that’s not the worst part.. no. Try to quit and get back in? Freeze. Yes, the game freezes and crashes.
The sad thing is, this is only affecting a small group of people. It could be because of a type of video card. Maybe ID Software is against Nvidia. Or, never optimized for the GTX 700 series, which seems to be the trend from what I’m seeing. Unfortunately, my 760 Ti is part of it.
Whatever it is, it remains unfixed. So there’s seriously nothing I can do to get it to work. Try to restart the campaign, and it happens in the same fucking place.
People have suggested to try to up your Virtual Memory. Tried this. Didn’t fix. Out of options. No “we know about this problem” from ID Software.
You have no idea how much this sucks. I hate game companies that do this. This is why I rarely buy and play games anymore. I’m tired of being screwed out of my money.