E3 trailer:

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Considering Wolfenstein: The New Order was easily the best FPS released in 2014 I am definitely looking forward to the sequel.

The trailer for TNC is all over the place but still very intriguing. I am very much on board. My only worry so far is that it will become too lighthearted. TNO struck such a good balance and I hope they can preserve that.

I don't want it to become Inglorious Basterds.

What about you duders? Interested?

I get the impression they're going to explore disability and augmentation in this game, which would be a less well-trodden look at the evil shit the nazis did.

Rewatching the trailer you've got; BJ falling out of the hospital bed at the start, there's his new exo-suit with the helmet, a couple of shots out of the suit but with large bolt-things sticking out of his arms and torso, and in the scene of him talking with the southern general character (6 minutes on the trailer) BJ seems to have a metal ring around his neck. Could he have had a full-body transplant? That would make the cat-monkey at the start an interesting foreshadow.

Aside from rampant speculation, this looks pretty fantastic. I dig that they seem to have taken some nods from Doom. My only real complaint about the The New Order is I found myself running for cover too often, if this game has us spending more time ripping and tearing through nazis then I'm all on board!

It looked a lot weirder than New Order did, and I was into it. They managed to be pretty funny, which isn't easy.

I have no idea what the guy with the outrageous American accent was even trying to say.

I am downloading the new order now so I can get in on this excitement. The trailer made me laugh.

Sign me up. TNO was unexpectedly awesome and this looks like, at a minimum, more of the same. Riding a giant mechanical attack dog with a flamethrower for a mouth? Yes, please.

@playerprime: Good call on the augmentation/mechanical replacements stuff. From the monkey cat to BJ himself it looked like there was a whole lot of that.

Probst Wyatt the 3rd, the gift that keeps on giving. Probably the only release I'm excited for this year.

@hassun: I really enjoyed The New Order and this has reminded me that I still haven't played The Old Blood. Need to remedy that...

Perhaps it was a symptom of coming to New Order after having so thoroughly enjoyed DOOM 2016, but it felt to me like a dry run for ideas that id were able to indirectly iterate on and make an actually entertaining product out of. TNO was obviously ambitious, but I didn't completely enjoy the stealth elements, I didn't think it looked particularly good (I played the PS4 release, which I believe is simply a port of the PS3 game) and I thought the gunplay was adequate but nothing like, say, Destiny or DOOM though dual wielding was cool.

But my two biggest issues with the game was that I found navigation often inscrutable; DOOM's map wasn't great either but at least I could make sense of it. I spent a ton of time backtracking and trying to figure out where the fuck this game was asking me to go and it extended a lot of sequences needlessly. There was also a point involving an airplane on the side of a cliff I remember for some reason not being able to figure out how to get past for several minutes, and if I'm any kind of gamer I'm the sort that's average at all games but picks up on what he's supposed to be doing immediately. So I can't help but feel like it's the game's fault if I feel like there's nowhere to go. I also spent like ten minutes trying to find the last item I needed to trigger the chainsaw cutscene in Chapter 2; I'm not sure I've been made to feel so oblivious by such a simple game in a long time.

Most importantly, though, because I would've finished the game otherwise (though I also felt the story was slapdash and hokey in a mostly bland way, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt things would have gotten better in the second half) I ran into a bug that resulted in the game launching to a black screen and nothing else, hard-locking my system and forcing a hard reset and a system debug every time I tried to launch the game. I tried researching it and nothing positive turned up so I just uninstalled the game and moved on. For context, as best I can remember I had just finished stealing the stealth helicopter, Chapter 6, because the summary of the following chapter is completely unfamiliar to me.

All that is to say that while this was one of my three favorite reveals of E3 so far (the other two being Anthem and Need for Speed, with a nod towards whatever that Blade Runner ripoff game was I won't be able to play on Playstation for the foreseeable future) I have a lot of reservations about whether I'll actually want to play this game. My hope would be they've had more than enough time to polish all the rough edges this game had and more time to focus on nuance and detail rather than the broad strokes they painted with the first time around, as well as learn from what id did with DOOM much in the same way I suspect id learned from MachineGames.

It's my 'Game of the show' so far.

The trailer seemed brilliantly cut to me, everything that felt off felt like it was off on purpose like they were playing with our expectations. Humor seems on par with the first game(and its trailers) the original game had a tarrentino vibe going from what i remember with a bit of dark humor mixed in with the bleak story and subject. The sequel seems to maintain that vibe from what i remember(i did only get over half way through).

The gameplay graphics looked insane and maybe it was the stream, but they looked better than the cutscene graphics. Gameplay looks like they are taking what worked in the first game and adding a bit of new doom which i am all for. Basically, game looks amazing and i hope it delivers like the first did.

Loved The New Order so much, but didn't like Old Blood very much at all. Can't wait for this, think it looks amazing.

The New Order was my game of the year in 2014, according to my list on this website. Great action, characters, and atmosphere. The story was more engaging than I could've guessed. I may have even enjoyed the gunplay more than Doom (my GOTY last year!). Hell, even the stealth felt really good.

So yes, I'm very, very excited.

I'm all on board with what's going off here.

This looks so incredibly good! The characters and world building are so compelling, charismatic, and sadly relevant.

A video game hasn't had me this intrigued in a long time and I'm not sure anything can top it as my game of the show.

Does this mean Timothy Leary is part of the resistance?

The New Order was the secret best game of 2014, so I'm very excited for this. That trailer is incredible.

Loved The New Order since the initial 2013 E3 reveal trailer and this is possibly the only game I'm actually really excited for this whole year (at the moment). There's a handful of other games too that I definitely want to play, but if I'd get to pick what to play first, it'd easily be this one. I hope they manage to sneak some of that FMV stuff into the game this time, because it seems even better than the live-action trailers they did before.

Also silly CEs are great (it has the game included this time).

@nodima: Yeah it was the delivery and words. I really didn't think it jived at all either, felt incredibly out of place to me but again I saw people praise it for that which I was shocked by.

The ramped up preacher? Half of it was about whiskey, the other half the present state of things in their America. With the usual cross-over themes that you might hear today

So, so into this.

Is Wolfenstein the only shooter franchise (with more than 2 or 3 entries) to succeed at making each game better than the last? Seems like they're still on track to keep that trajectory.

@shagge: Wolfenstein is such a long and disjointed franchise, touched by so many different hands, it's hard to develop a throughline over the years. As groundbreaking as the first couple games may have been, the soft reboot by Machine Games is definitely my favorite iteration of the series though.

@shagge: I would put Return to Castle Wolfenstein over Wolfenstein at least. That game was reeaaaally good. Even without its fantastic multiplayer.

@hassun:Hmm, yeah, RtCW *miiight* edge out Wolf '09 for me as well. And if you count Spear of Destiny as its own game and not a standalone expansion (I have a hard time taking either side on that... it's kind of both?), that also throws off the trajectory a little.

@hippie_genocide: That's very true. Also, it's a shame that Silas Warner is gone, I'd love to know what he would have thought of the current direction for the series. I'm sure he wasn't too happy when id just kind of waltzed off with his franchise, but it must have been something to see his strange little game become what it did.

I wish I'd liked new order more. It kinda had everything in place, cool dystopian alternate history, some crazy moments and levels. And I liked the shooting a lot too, but I feel like the game went out of its way to make me not enjoy it so much by forcing stealth and ammo scarcity and a weird health system on me. That said, the trailer for tnc is by far the best thing from e3 up until now, so I'm still very much looking forward to this.

This looks interesting. The New Order was fantastic, with a story that was so much better than it had any right to be. I wasn't able to get into The Old Blood as much. It looks like they're definitely going more "out there" this time, and I'm not sure the game needs more humor. I'm pretty excited for this, but I hope they don't make it too over-the-top.

Should be good, won't be as good as Doom most likely but that's not that big of a deal.

Liked the first game a lot, (although Titanfall was the best FPS of 2014, c'mon now) and this game looks even better. Glad BJ isnt dead. I also like the theories that "Punished BJ" (or Venom BJ heh heh) had a head transplant. Although much like the MGS V theories I doubt thats actually whats going on.

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Can't probably expect all of these to be as beefy as The New Blood, but at least they all are single-player focused content like the main game.

Everything about this sounds great. Not going to buy a season pass though.

According to multiple sources '2 hours with' New Colossus isn't great. Apparently its really hard and the stealth mechanic is mostly absent. If its a better New Order than its a Day 1 buy for me regardless. I like the season pass stuff, but I think I would've rather just had all 3 lumped into one bundle at once and just release it like Old Blood.

@atastyslurpee: What sources? Impressions I read were positive.

Same. It was only the Polygon writer and one other I saw complaining about the difficulty. And even those were otherwise positive about different aspects.

I can't wait for this game. The E3 coverage alone was enough for me to play through the New Order and Old Blood again probably my favorite "modern" shooter series.

Yeah those are the ones I read. I did read others that were positive as well.

@glots: while I'm glad there's lots of content for the game, it's weird that's available at launch. Shouldn't it just be in the game? DLC is supposed to be content you after you have finished the original content or at least comes out later and refreshes the game a bit for you. When they release full DLC packs at the beginning it seems like they just broke up the game they had already made into little parts to make more money at the start. Sadly this is the new trend and I'm going to resist it here just like every other game that does this. I am excited for. Wolfenstein 2 though as the new order was a blast and a half!

My hype for this game is off the fucking charts

I've kept my eyes closed since the E3 trailer, just to keep most of the game as a surprise. I did watch almost everything leading up to New Order's release, but back then they managed to lure me in with those amazing live-action trailers and the cover songs playing over them.

I've still seen plenty of very positive seeming articles on Twitter, so I'm pretty hyped even without consuming any new trailers.