Cliff Bleszinski: Wolfenstein The New Order Is The Best FPS Since Half Life 2

'The greatest shooter campaign since Half Life 2.'

Posted By | On 26th, Jul. 2014

Wolfenstein - The New Order

Wolfenstein: The New Order, the newest game in the classic, long running FPS series (the grand daddy of the entire FPS genre, actually), was released a couple months ago. The title, developed by debutant developer Machine Games and publisher Bethesda, was absolutely amazing- it married old school shooter design with new age sensibilities and an incredible atmosphere, all coming together to create a hell of a shooter. It’s not much of a stretch to say it’s one of the best shooters of the last decade. And that is a point of view that ex-Epic Games developer Cliff Bleszinski certainly espouses.

‘The new Wolfenstein was in my opinion, and I daresay this, one of the best first-person shooter campaigns since Half-Life 2. And I think I’m about halfway through right now, I’m stuck on this bridge section but I refuse to lower the difficulty because I hate having to do that in a game.

“But when I saw that game at E3 a couple years ago and then PAX East, I was completely underwhelmed, I was writing it off. I didn’t want to be a dick and say something about it on social, but my expectations were really low—I thought it seemed kind of cheesy and just weird. And then when I got hands-on, it was extraordinarily well written, graphically gorgeous, and the maps were extremely well built. And the combat was just fantastic, it was a labor of love,” Bleszinski said to PCGamer.

You might disagree on the exact specifics of that statement, but there is absolutely no denying that this is a hell of a shooter, and it fills me with great optimism for the upcoming Doom reboot.

Machine Games, take a bow.


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