Ok, the ending confused the fuck out of me. This.. this is NOT the prequel of RTCW… it’s the prequel for The New Order. H… HOW?! I was so certain!<\/p>\n
I think I need to re-play RTCW, yet I remember almost vividly, that..that… gah. I can’t say this without revealing spoilers for both games! I… OK. I can’t continue until I give spoilers. I’m going to use tags here, so the ones who just want to see my thoughts, won’t see the spoilers.<\/p>\n\n
Right. So in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Helga dies from what she’s trying to bring up. She gets ripped to pieces. Yet she ALSO dies in this expansion! I mean.. how can she die in two separate games?
\nThat’s the only thing I don’t like. What proved that it was a prequel for The New Order is seeing the pilot from that game, there.<\/p>\n
EDIT: Actually, it appears I’ve been wrong on so many counts. I’ve been told from one player, that RTCW is completely separate from Wolfenstein 3D (as in a ‘reboot’ to the series).
\nHe also mentions a ‘Wolfenstein 2009’ that I never heard of, and The New Order is a sequel to that.
\nAnd as for Helga, there’s actually two of them. So yeah. Parallel universe, much?
\nThere’s Helga von Bulow who was in RTCW. And then there’s Helga Von Schabbs. Two different Helgas, yet both of them worked for the SS Paranormal Division.<\/p>\n\n
There’s also another thing I want to go over; my thoughts about the shamblers that pop up past the halfway point of the game. When Helga’s lackys “drop the bomb” which causes most of people, Nazis and regular, to turn into zombie-like things.
\nThey’re both a challenge and annoying, especially what you think is a regular Nazi. You headshot, and it turns into a fucking flaming zombie instead that requires more bullets to kill.<\/p>\n
This is even more annoying during the final missions. There was two more stealth areas. It’s tricky enough to hope your single silence pistol bullet headshots the guy you’re pointing at, but having him suddenly go zombie and having him alerting everyone to your position… seriously, ugh. I don’t know how many times I forced-resetted the stealth parts to make sure I manage to kill the Commanders as quietly as possible.
\nYet when I have regular nazis turn into those damn things, I’m forced to take them down very quickly so that the others don’t see the flaming animated corpse.<\/p>\n
Right. For the ones that didn’t (or did) read the spoiler, time for my final spoiler-free thoughts.
\nI liked the game. It’s what The New Order should had been, as I said before. Pretty much all I can say, except the game is definitely worth the $20. I would even go so far as to say, it was worth $30. And that’s a first from me.<\/p>\n
Though I’ve been hearing similar issues with certain Nvidia cards not being able to run this game, compared to what I went though with The New Order. I really lucked out here. Not one crash. Game ran beautifully, even on the highest settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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