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Wolfenstein The Old Blood Free Download Unfitgirl Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a strange beast. As a six-hour, stand-alone prequel to 2014’s excellent Wolfenstein: The New Order, it puts us through a grinder of tense, exciting, and memorable shootouts in some really great settings. But while The New Order shined brightest during its quiet moments of exploration and character development, The Old Blood never really gives you time to catch your breath during its descent to zombie-filled strangeness. That unrelenting pace makes it lots of fun, but not as thoughtful as its stand-out predecessor. Taking place during the late ‘40s, The Old Blood once again places you in the blood-soaked boots of B.J. Blazkowicz, back before he saved the world from Deathshead’s alternate-history evil. The story this time around has you infiltrating mountainside fortresses, escaping Nazi prisons, and fighting waves of zombies, but nothing about the story ever really felt memorable. Like so many entertaining but forgettable shooters before it, The Old Blood comes across more like an automated shooting range, most notable for presenting you with diverse locations to shoot all manner of baddies in. From the torchlit halls of Castle Wolfenstein to cryptic caves underneath burning villages, you briskly move from place to place, and encounter to encounter. While this speed keeps the action hot, I really did miss New Order’s surprisingly effective detours into character relationships, non-combat areas, and story. That felt brave and bold in a way this doesn’t. In place of those palate cleansers, The Old Blood uses stealth puzzles that act as nice buffers to the action. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

Many of these have you sneaking around rooms and turning off electricity to hulking, tethered mechs, taking out sentry guards in heavily fortified areas, and using your all-purpose pipe weapon/tool to climb up walls and jimmy open doors. These scenes turn down the volume, but keep the tension high, as many enemies are able to tear you apart extremely quickly if you get caught. While checkpoints are generally plentiful across The Old Blood’s eight chapters, there were a few tough stealth sections where I managed to remain hidden for well over 10 minutes, only to be spotted within sight of my goal and frustratingly forced to repeat the whole thing over again. In addition to these scenarios, I really appreciated the various nods to other Bethesda-owned games peppered throughout The Old Blood. During my time in this alternate history, I spotted Fallout’s Nuka Cola, a Dragonborn helmet from Skyrim, and a pixilated model of Quake 3’s rocket launcher. When you do find yourself in combat, which I promise happens quite a bit, the scenarios are by and largely satisfying. Arenas are multi-level, filled with cover points, and peppered with secret passages. Each weapon, from the precise Bombenschluss to the room-clearing Kampfpistol, has a balanced use throughout the campaign. Managing scarce ammo, knowing which weapon to use on which type of soldier, and constantly surveying the surroundings for cues make these fights more interesting and satisfying than the typical run-and-gun.

Return to the castle

But while the weapons all feel good in their own right, none of them really do anything unique when it comes to genre. Shotguns, sniper rifles, and explosives act exactly as you’d expect from a shooter in 2015, and while that makes for some fun encounters, they don’t really deliver any surprises. Apart from this, it was nice to see prototype versions of what would become standard enemies 20 years later in The New Order, like a janky version of the mechanical dog that stalked us back in 2014’s game. That said, I’m disappointed that The Old Blood didn’t take the opportunity to fix some of New Order’s nagging issues, particularly the repetitive effort required to pick up items. I was already tired of hitting a button every time I want to grab health, armor, ammo, or a collectable when I got here, and Old Blood only exacerbates this problem by throwing even larger piles of items at you. There’s no reason you wouldn’t want to pick up everything, so the lack of streamlining this action definitely adds a layer of tedium. The other weird issue with The Old Blood is the bizarre tone shift from Nazi-killing and espionage to apocalyptic zombie horror that occurs about two-thirds of the way through the campaign. It might’ve felt justified if zombies were something more than dumber, bullet-spongier versions of regular enemies, but that’s all they are. They’re not scary, they’re not interesting. They’re just…there, being dumb zombies. Strategy and excitement definitely takes a hit in the final chapters, but the variety and action carry this short shooter through to the end. Age of Empires IV 

A standalone prequel to last year’s excellent Wolfenstein: The New Order, The Old Blood marks a return to the classic shooter’s traditional ideas, environments and plot beats. It’s a strange creative shift. The New Order proved that it was possible to separate B.J. Blazkowicz from Castle Wolfenstein and still create something that felt like a Wolfenstein game. I admired it as much for its idiosyncrasy as its gunplay: it’s a game of surprising heart, staggering violence and stylistic originality. It traded techno-gothic Nazi fortresses for retro-futuristic Nazi moonbases and was better off for it. The Old Blood is far more familiar. It’s set in 1946, involves both a return to and an escape from Castle Wolfenstein, and plays out the consequences of Nazi occultism in a manner that will feel eerily familiar to anybody who has played Return to Castle Wolfenstein or Raven’s 2009 reboot of the series. Even as a fan—perhaps because I’m a fan—I was happy to see the series move away from gothic castles and gunfights in crypts. Yet here we (and they) are. MachineGames’ particular sense of style has survived, however. The new Castle Wolfenstein is lovely to look at, a brutal marriage of Helm’s Deep and Half Life 2’s Citadel. B.J. regards it, the regime that occupies it, and everything that happens within it with the same mixture of folksy wisdom and barely-constrained rage that made his reinvention in The New Order such a surprising success. Your scenery-chewing Nazi foes retain their fondness for Tarantinoish monologuing and in-your-face physical threat

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The script veers from darkly funny to utterly deadpan in a way that implies the intelligence working away under Wolfenstein’s implacably dumb exterior. That said, what was novel a year ago isn’t necessarily novel now. Nothing in The Old Blood exceeds what was achieved in The New Order, and there are moments when the two are uncannily similar. There’s even a bit where you’re confronted by a senior female Nazi while carrying a wobbly tray of drinks. This is clearly deliberate, but now doesn’t feel like the time for Wolfenstein to put out a greatest hits album: it only just made a case for its continued relevance. Despite the skill involved in The Old Blood’s execution, it’s disappointing to be confronted with so much familiarity after last year’s flood of original ideas. These are still good tricks, but they’re the same tricks. The Old Blood shares The New Order’s impactful gunplay but lacks its predecessor’s pace and variety. A forced stealth section near the beginning lasts long enough to become irritating; what follows alternates between running gunfights, open-ended arena encounters and defense sequences with little escalation. Its high points are, as before, the moments when it lets you take on a room full of Nazis as loudly or quietly as you please. The way Wolfenstein seamlessly transitions between stealth and deafening violence is still its best trick. Airport CEO 

For every arena that makes the most of that freedom, however, there’s another that is too small, too linear or too prescriptive to really deliver. Then there the low points: on-rails turret bits, bullet-sponge enemies, a fiddly vehicle section. The introduction of the supernatural doesn’t add anything that you haven’t encountered in a hundred other shooters, including more than one prior Wolfenstein game. The final boss marks The Old Blood’s lowest ebb, a healthbar-whittling chore that lacks the visual ingenuity and environmental puzzle-solving of its counterparts in The New Order. There are new weapons, but the majority of these are reverse-engineered versions of guns from the previous game, downgraded to match the ’40s setting. The sawn-off shotgun is gratifying to use, however, and a new grenade-launching pistol provides you with a room-clearing panic button mitigated by limited ammunition. The campaign took me around four and a half hours to complete on the second-hardest setting, with about 50% of the game’s hidden collectibles picked up along the way—completionists are likely to get a few more hours out of it. There’s also a score attack mode that allows you to replay certain arena combat encounters from the campaign in order to compete on global leaderboards.

Crush the Nazi with the potato masher!

This is a welcome addition, one that I’d like to see fleshed out in future Wolfenstein games: it makes the most of the game’s excellent-feeling guns, and offers a way back into raw combat for those unwilling to sit through the cutscenes and stealth sections again. The Old Blood is a false start for Wolfenstein’s life after The New Order, a creative step backwards that survives primarily because of the strong groundwork laid in the previous game. It will always be fun to fire these guns and Machine Games’s presentation is still ahead of the curve, but this isn’t the game you should play if you want to explore those qualities—that game was released a year ago. Wolfenstein: The New Order kicked off with a suicide mission against General Deathshead’s compound, and then quickly moves forward in time, chronicling the victory of the Nazis after World War 2 and BJ Blazkowicz’s crusade against them. The Old Blood focuses on his adventures before the actual start of The New Order, as Blazkowicz went through quite a few interesting moments while trying to find the location of General Deathshead’s castle. What’s more, those adventures take BJ to the actual Castle Wolfenstein, while searching for information, and then to a few interesting German villages. Through the two main parts of the story campaign, which are split into eight total chapters, players can learn a bit more about BJ but also about the other leaders of the German military besides The New Order’s Deathshead. There are quite a few interesting moments in terms of plot but its rapid pace makes relating to some of the other characters a bit hard to do. Alan Wake Remastered 

Even so, you’re in for a good story that explores the universe even more. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood keeps the solid shooter mechanics from The New Order, sporting an old-school, fast-paced movement system as well as responsive weapons that feel awesome to use. Some weapons make a return from The New Order, including the solid assault rifle or the quite potent pistol, but there’s plenty of new gear that can be used by BJ to trim down the Nazi horde. One of the first things you get to try out is a versatile pipe that can be used as a single, long component, or be split into two and used to scale walls. This mechanic is used fairly often, and while it takes a bit of time to get used to its control system, it soon becomes second nature. There’s a powerful gun that fires explosive flares, a new bolt-action rifle, as well as a pretty powerful shotgun-like shrapnel hammer. What’s more, most of the game’s weapons can be dual-wielded. Towards the end of the campaign, you also get to use a very impressive sawed-off shotgun, which makes getting rid of the new enemies even more satisfying. Speaking of opponents, while you’ll mostly be mowing down regular soldiers, there are a few new types of foes, including prototype versions of the hulking cyborgs seen in The New Order as well as the special surprise from the game’s end – Nazi Zombies. These undead are quite powerful, and while some will just shamble around, others will rush BJ, so make sure you have places to fall back to.

Levels are quite varied, and while some areas might feel like rehashes of previous zones, especially towards the beginning, when you’re making your way through the Wolfenstein prison, you’ll soon reach some impressive environments, from cable car stations to the interior of Castle Wolfenstein, or a burning, zombie-infested German villages. There are quite a few new perks that once again unlock as you perform specific actions, such as overcharging your health, dual-wielding weapons, and so on. Like any old-school shooter, there are plenty of secret areas, hidden collectibles, and other such things, but also brand new Nightmare sequences. In case you forgot, The New Order allowed BJ to have a “nightmare” that took him to the first stage of the original Wolfenstein 3D. The Old Blood brings a new Nightmare stage for each of the eight chapters, taking BJ through the entirety of Wolfenstein 3D’s first episode, complete with the secret stage or the Hans Grosser boss fight. While the game in general makes a pretty solid showing, there are some stages where it’s unclear what exactly you have to do or where it’s quite hard to sneak through without alerting guards. These moments aren’t that numerous, but they do keep it from perfection. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood looks very good and uses the solid engine from The New Order to bring detailed environments, great character models, as well as fluid animations. The Nazi Zombies in particular look quite spooky and the flames engulfing most of them are well done.

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