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For example, if your health is at 100 and it drops to 85, it will regenerate back to 100. But in lieu of literal blocks of vitality regenerating, health regenerate in segments of 20 units up to 100. Effectively, The New Order uses the same health system seen in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from ButcherвЂ™s Bay where health partially regenerates. There are both regeneration and health packs as well as armor. The best picture of how Wolfenstein marries old and new is in its health system. How? By having virtually every element of both types of shooter. MachineGame hit the proverbial nail on the head. This is not a new idea and itвЂ™s a balance that many developers have sought and failed to attain. Rather, The New Order attempts to blend old and new design elements. Since the release of Halo in 2001, limited weapon slots and regenerating health have grown in popularity to the point where even 2009вЂ™s Wolfenstein bowed to the trend in regards to health. The New Order treats all of its heavier scenes this way and it's honestly quite refreshing.Д«ut thankfully, Wolfenstein: The New Order is not only this heavy hitting tale IвЂ™ve been describing, itвЂ™s also fine action game. The on-screen nudity is not the point of each scene but rather a connection between two people. Neither of which is gratuitous or voyeuristic. Those games that do contain of sex often do so in the most immature manner as if to say вЂњYouвЂ™re an adult! Look, hereвЂ™s some boobs to prove it!вЂќ Wolfenstein doesnвЂ™t do this. Sex in video games is still a rather taboo topic. One element of WolfensteinвЂ™s story that IвЂ™d like to point out as an example of just how maturely MachineGames takes the issues tackled in Wolfenstein is that of sex. It surprising just how much this tactic lightens up the mood in an otherwise very oppressive world. Splicing in and out of scene and even having multiple camera angles represented on screen at once. A prime example is how before some missions the cinematics take on an OceanвЂ™s Eleven and 24-like quality. The way the cutscenes are handled also help carry the burden of material that Wolfenstein shoulders. Instead, much the same way characters in novels do, Blazkowicz has an ongoing internal monologue that is used to show his struggles with what he does as well as his self-perceived fatalism. The entirety of his character is not dependent on how he comes across in cutscenes. A show of bold and grand design, Blazkowicz thinks throughout the entire game. Wolfenstein sidesteps this common landmine by introducing humor, a love story that isnвЂ™t вЂњthe pointвЂќ of the story and through Blazkowicz himself. Often games that try to have this emotional a tale and this high-octane of action lose themselves in terrible narrative dissonance. Wolfenstein takes place in a world that is decidedly of the 1960s, just not the one in history books, which makes it partially familiar and partially unfamiliar, but completely off putting. For instance, the London that you see is not simply London with Nazi banners and swastikas itвЂ™s a reinvention of the city. The alternate time of the Nazis winning is fully realized by MachineGames. ItвЂ™s an odd thing to praise in a game in 2014, but Wolfenstein has a great sense of place.

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No level feels like it is simply a maze of winding corridors but series of actual buildings and facilities that exists in a real world. The level design and art direction go a long way towards making The New Order what it is. Striking back not only takes you through prisons and concentration camps, but underwater to hijack a submarine and even to the moon. Thus The New Order tasks you with finding the resistance and making a plan to strike back. But the Nazis are winning and theВ last ditch effort fails leaving Blazkowicz in a hospital for nearly 15 years only to wake up and discover that the Nazis won and thereвЂ™s barely even a resistance left to fight back. Blazkowicz are assaulting the compound of Wilhelm Strasse, known to Allied forces as Deathshead. Wolfenstein: The New Order starts in the same manner as every other Wolfenstein game, in WWII.

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