Following on from posting about Wolfenstein The New Order in completely the wrong thread yesterday:
viewtopic.php?p=918666#p918666Played through Levels 2 and 3 last night. I've already got the 100% bug so refuse to leave a level until I've found everything on it, even though collecting everything doesn't seem to confer any bonuses to the player in the way that DOOM did (i.e. weapon upgrade tokens).
And yeah, it's a great game, which makes the unfathomably awful opening stretch even more mystifying, it's like they felt they had to do some sort of CoD-style explosion onto the screen to kick things off, when there's really no need for it at all.
The stealth aspect is a little bit bollocksed, the enemies often have that amazing laser-line-of-sight vision going on, apparently spotting a sneaking silent assassin, some twenty metres above their current position, with no trouble at all. As such stealth does have its limitations, there's generally no Dishonored-esque taking down an entire camp of baddies silently and/or without even being seen, and breaking out the assault rifle at some point is usually required.
The story is engaging and I like the characters, the cinematics are well done and worth watching. And of course, when it comes to baddies they don't come much badder than Nazis, so killing the fuck out of them is hugely enjoyable.
Overall then, very enjoyable stuff, lots of similarities with DOOM although it seems to have been developed by an entirely different team, so not sure what the deal is there. (Obviously it's published by Bethesda, same as DOOM, and has iD's logo on it, so who knows.)