Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - Xbox One

This new entry in the Wolfenstein series is one of my favorite shooters in a long time. The power felt in the weapons, the awesome graphics and a story that has a lot of heart and laughter. BJ is back but with some new characters that add a lot to the game. The writing is fairly well done and for a first-person shooter, they do a fair job at mixing up the gameplay throughout. There has been some concern about difficulty but I haven’t felt as much of it, but I did find a rhythm after playing the New Order and Old Blood. I actually use cover a lot and only do melee kills when there is like one guy left. It may not work for everyone but that’s what I do. The only downside I have for the game is that it does moves very fast. I wasn’t as much of a fan of Doom because of that but I DON’T see that as a real negative to the game. More of just something that I want to make sure people are aware of.The last aspect that I want to highlight is the environment and location. This has been something that I have really enjoyed seeing over the last couple years. Wolfenstein does a great job at making you feel immersed in this Nazi occupied America/world. It’s dark, gritty but intriguing to see their take on this dark version of, what could have been, our history.+The Story has come a long way and the new character are fun and real+The environment is jaw dropping while making you feel the dark ideology of Nazism+The gameplay is as fluid as it gets and gives you some of the most intense moments a first person shooter can dish outOverall, I think Machine Games and Bethesda did a great job at executing a phenomenal, single player experience in a time where people are nervous about the future of these story driven games. I think this is more than just a sequel, it feels more like a whole new game and experience that takes advantage of a story that has been started a few years ago. If you like first person shooters and love gritty, raw action, grab a copy of this game. Thank you and I hope you enjoyed my thoughts!

Overall, this was a great 1 player experience, a rarity among the overload of multiplayer and online only games out there. The story was great, picking up immediately after the events of the first game. The characters were much more in depth and all have their own individual personalities that drive the story even further. On the other hand however, there are some parts of the story that kind of bog the experience down a little, but not that much.The game play is fantastic. In my opinion, it's much more difficult than The New Order, and I died..ALOT, but it was a challenge and it made me explore different ways to get past a certain point where I was stuck. It made it much more worth it when I completed the game. Game ran smooth, but I did encounter quite a few bugs here and there. My only major gripe was how they changed the dual-wield system. While I do enjoy being able to mix and match weapons, reverting back to a single weapon or switching a single weapon on one specific arm is very tedious and attributed to quite a few of my deaths. The weapon swapping is too slow for the pace of the game. Hoping that next time they can make it more fluid and streamlined.Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game, and the slew of challenges and collectibles and other hidden secrets makes the replay value high, and the DLC content "Freedom Chronicles" episode zero was enjoyable.If you played the first game and/or you enjoy a straight up first person shooter adventure that's just one player, I just have one suggestion. Get this game and GET PSYCHED!

Here you get to learn about BJ's backstory not to mentioned how and why he became the man he is. Hard as it may seem, the great 'terror-billy' was at one point an innocent child like any of us and my god does it show his backstory really well, even if its just minor glimpses. It also recaps the events from new order so if your new to the game, it'll catch you up pretty quickly. Now there are some idiot reviewers saying this is SJW garbage and all whites are Nazis, and BJ is ret-conned into being jewish, the game is a measly 2 hrs, and that is praises communism. I am here to say that is complete lies!Number 1, there are many white protagonists including a female Nazi-turned resistance fighter. Of prominent note is Seth Roth, Super Spesh, Fergus or Wyatt depending on who you choose to save, Horton, Anya, etc. Number 2, Judaism is a religion, not a race so BJ can be POLISH AND JEWISH, not that they state whether he is or isn't merely that his mom practiced that faith. Number 3, the game is long. I couldn't stop playing it, putting in at minimum 4 hrs a day before finally completing it on the third day and this was playing it on Bring them On! Difficulty, essentially medium. It is challenging and engaging. Finally number 4, IT DOES NOT PRAISE COMMUNISM AT ANY POINT! How people can say this when one of the secondary characters was merely a socialist, which is not the same as communism, I will never know but people are incredibly stupid. In short if you loved The New Order, then you will absolutely enjoy this game.

I haven’t completed the game yet but love what I have played so far. There isn’t much instruction on where to go when doing missions and you almost never stay on a straight and narrow path to the end which personally I think adds to the excitement. Great storyline! Only downside is the amount of storage required for this game. The disc download was around 43 GB and then you’re also required to download 8GB from the network. If you have slow internet like me running around 7 Mbps, then the network download will take a long time. I needed up using my hotspot on my phone and it still took about 45 minutes.