It's something that couldn't have been realized in Wolfenstein 3D, BjГ¶rk says, but that BJ's personality will be consistent with what players would have inferred from his 1992 introduction. BJ will sometimes comment on the sticky situations he finds himself in, lamenting for a simpler time, when Nazi soldiers - not Nazi robots - were his greatest challenge.Д®xpect 'a lot of depth to his personality that maybe hasn't been present in previous games,' Matthies says. MachineGames did go back to the original Wolfenstein 3D, released in 1992, to shape the finer points of BJ Blazkowicz's personality, which is on display in The New Order's cutscenes and in the occasional inner monologue. If you're brand new to what Wolfenstein is, you'll be fine starting with this game.'

In some ways it's a sequel, but you don't have to look at it that way if you don't want to. What happened happened we're not messing with that. 'We take this game in a direction it's never been before,' Matthies says, 'but we don't violate its history. MachineGames' take on Wolfenstein is not a reboot or a retcon, simply the next step in BJ's story. It's total oppression and restriction of freedom.'Дespite the time warp, Matthies says The New Order stays true to the storyline presented in previous Wolfenstein games, the most recent of which was id and Raven Software's Wolfenstein. 'The 1960s were a time of exploring freedom, taking a stand against war, ' says Tommy Tordsson BjГ¶rk, MachineGames narrative designer. Players will discover that as they navigate and do battle in a Nazi planetarium that commemorates the alternate-history feat. The moon landing, for example, will be a Nazi-achieved victory in The New Order. In The New Order, we'll see familiar pop culture references distorted through a Nazi lens. Everything's from this Nazi perspective.' The fact that now the Nazis rule everything, those familiar cultural expressions aren't realized - or at least not in the way they are in our world. 'Also, the '60s is very interesting in terms of the cultural impact that decade had. 'We wanted to utilize what the Nazis were planning in terms of architecture, and obviously they needed some time to implement that, even though they are supercharged technologically, ' Matthies says. Setting Wolfenstein: The New Order in a more modern time period also allows MachineGames creative leeway, both aesthetically, historically and culturally. When you emerge in that new world, you get that same revelatory experience that he has.' 'We want to reveal this world to BJ as we reveal it to the player.

So when Blazkowicz takes his first steps into a strange Nazi-dominated world, so too will players. 'We're also really big on aligning the player's experience with the protagonist's experience,' he says. 'We take in a direction it's never been before, but we don't violate its history.' If we want to do some crazy laser weapon, we can do that. Whatever cool idea we have, if we want to do a Nazi robot, we can do that.

'For us to be able to set it in a world where we've pushed the timeline forward,' Matthies explains, 'and the Nazis rule the world - because they have access to some sort of mysterious technology that they've been able to implement in their war machine - that means that everything goes. The time transition also turns Blazkowicz, a well-worn, prototypical action hero, into 'a fish out of water,' Matthies says. The leap forward in time afforded developer MachineGames the ability to more believably inject futuristic weapons, technology and architecture, making the production of Nazi-engineered robots seem, perhaps, slightly more realistic. But he does find an ally in a burgeoning resistance movement intent on taking down the Nazi regime. Two decades on, the Nazis have won the second World War, conquered the planet and, with the help of a vast army and Nazi-engineered robots ranging from mechanized attack dogs to towering bipedal mechs, maintained oppressive control into the 1960s.Д«lazkowicz, having spent that 14-year span in a coma, awakens to find himself without an army. The game will open with a familiar, classic Wolfenstein feel, Matthies says, but players - and protagonist William 'BJ' Blazkowicz - are then thrust 14 years into the future. The new Wolfenstein's story straddles two time periods, beginning its tale of global Nazi domination in the year 1946, when an alternate history World War II is 'a little bit into overtime,' says The New Order creative director Jens Matthies. Wolfenstein: The New Order spans decades, both in its narrative and gameplay decisions. MachineGames takes the reins of id Software's Wolfenstein to create a game that combines the familiar with the modern, implementing old-school, first-person shooter mechanics with an updated twist.

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