Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Reviews

feels like another typical 2000s FPS, nothing groundbreaking, but still fun. (besides the stupid challenges, they suck) took me 11 hours to 100% it (at least per my save slot) my verdict? gud game. solid prequel

Really good variety of weapons, fluid gameplay, immersive story, frenetic action. Lacks on backtracking, though. If you've advanced to the objective, you cant go back no matter what, even though it could be possible - for example - to just drop of the building to the lower level you were at. If you missed an extra area, it's gone forever.

one the most easy game out of them all but great story line would recomend for new players to the series

Fun shooter that doesn't overstay it's welcome. Doesn't do anything revolutionary but still a good time.

Like The New Order? You'll like this. Solid gunplay, great setting. Not as great as The New Order in terms of story but it's short and to-the-point. The best feature that the old blood added is a UI element that tells you the relative direction of a commander so you don't have to run into walls like in TNO. TNC is by far the best of the three though.

It's honestly even better than The New Order. The atmosphere of the game reminds me of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and I think it's very much safe to say the creators of the game took strong inspirations from that game as you get many moments in that game that are strongly reminiscent of RTCW, be it some of the game's levels or its characters... the story, too to some degree. And I absolutely love all of it. I love the game is just constant action after the prologue unlike TNO which was more story-focused. It's not a bad to have your games focused on a story at all, but I personally prefer my FPSes more action-oriented. Very good game, 8.5/10

★★★★☆ (4/5) – Still Life in The Old Blood Wolfenstein: The Old Blood might be showing its age, but you wouldn’t know it from how well it holds up—visually and performance-wise. Running at a flawless 4K 60fps, the game still manages to impress with its gritty environments and cinematic flair... as long as you don’t look too closely. BJ Blazkowicz is still a solid lead—stoic, brutal, and somehow likable despite all the carnage and bloodshed. Wesler was a standout character too, though I wish he’d stuck around longer; you barely get five minutes with him before everything goes off the rails. The rest of the cast felt similar, if not less memorable—serviceable, but largely forgettable. The pacing is steady through most of the game, with Part I building nicely before things ramp up hard toward the end. That difficulty spike caught me off guard—even on Bring ‘Em On (medium), the game isn’t afraid to punish sloppy play. I died more than a few times. Then come the zombies. I actually liked the added challenge, but the way it’s implemented—especially in the mech—feels tedious. You’re forced to exit the mech just to melee them, which breaks the flow and turns what should be power fantasy into busywork. And that final boss was Just plain brutal. The last stretch drags a bit too long for my taste, but despite the pacing hiccups and repetitive zombie fights, The Old Blood is a worthwhile expansion— once it picks up its fast, bloody, and atmospheric. I’d say it’s essential for the storyline, and it’s damn entertaining.

I completed this in around seven hours and thirty minutes on 'I AM DEATH INCARNATE!' (hard mode), I just left the game open for a lot in the days I played it! A decent chunk of that gameplay is playing the nightmares and hunting for collectables. Overall I liked the game and would recommend it to fans of the series that want more from the world, with the caveat that it's less fun than the other games. I'm glad I played it, but that's purely for how it added to the world of Wolfenstein and B.J's story rather than for the gameplay - It's generally fun but it's a massive step down from The New Order and The New Colossus (TNC), to the point that it's weird this came after them. The stealth sections are quite frustrating (the silenced pistol seems to choose at random if it can kill someone quickly or not) and there is a massive change in the enemies you face (zombies) in the last two chapters that makes stealth almost impossible, but only if you lose a diceroll and have an enemy you kill become a zombie, which they don't do consistently, and the super shotgun was terrible against the zombies. There are no environmental kills either that I found - I consider it a valid complaint that TNC lets you drown a Nazi in their own piss and this game doesn't. The final boss was pretty annoying, I had to search online how the fight worked since I played and died about 4 times with no way of knowing if I was hurting it or not - Though I will say the mechanics were enjoyable when I realised how it worked (the creature being blind), it doesn't do enough to actually make the fight fun. I liked the occult storyline and how it re-introduces magic back in to this continuity, I loved so many of the characters, everyone in the OSA, the Kreisau Circle and the other random rebels (Annette!) you meet were easy to love, and of course the Nazi bastards were very fun to hate. The letters and newspaper articles were great too, it's a great way to round out the world of these games. B.J's last speech in the final cutscene was just the best. Also the soundtrack was sick! I loved The Partisan, it's in my playlists now for life.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Had to beat the whole game in one sitting because when i tried to exit, the game called me a coward.