Running at about six hours, this game is a lot of fun with a decent story and some great action packed fights. If you haven't played either, I would recommend playing this first, then picking up last years release.
By keeping the elements that made The New Order a great, old-school shooter, The Old Blood offers 5 to 6 hours of mindless and extremely enjoyable FPS gaming.
The Old Blood is a solid, fun and challenging shooter, with its distinctive mix between old and new school. Unfortunately, the original The New Order set the bar very high, and this expansion clearly can't keep up.
The Old Blood is just OK. It’s a great deal for the price – as a $25 digital download via the PlayStation Store, the Xbox Games Store and Steam, it’s a rarity in an era when 25 bucks might get you a couple map packs’ worth of downloadable content – but I’ve discovered there’s such a thing as too old-school.
I really liked New Order, especially the alternate history they created, but I sort of craved for the old Wolfenstein. So in Old Blood, it felt great to crawl around in old german castles and villages again, and the supernatural part really brought back dear memories from previous titles. Great game, I wish they'll keep on making more traditional FPS like this.
The prequel to The New Order is a game of two halves.
The first half is basically more of The New Order, and that's a good thing. While the stealth section at the start drags on a bit (and I like stealth), things do pick up. Soon, you're gunning through Castle Wolfenstein, and this was my favourite part of the game.
In the second half of The Old Blood, an old underground gas is unearthed that reanimates the dead, and it even starts raining zombies. Blazkowicz doesn't seem too troubled by this, though, as zombies are never mentioned outside of The Old Blood.
Overall, The Old Blood is a solid prequel to The New Order, if not quite up to the same standard. The gameplay is much the same, but the addition of zombies in the second half isn't particularly interesting or important. There's less of a narrative focus here, and while that means more focus on the action itself, as a package The New Order is the better game. That said, this is still a worthwhile prequel and I had a lot of fun with it.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a damn good standalone expansion to The New Order. The games story this time around isnt as good as the other two but still good. Castle Wolfenstein is a good setting for the game. The gameplay is the exact same as The New Order, which is amazing by the way. This is also a prequel to The New Order, and sets up the game good.
Well, the game is ok, until chapter 5, then it becomes a one big piece of crap. Why? Well, ONLY until the chapter mentioned above the difficulty is fair (talking about the easiest one) then, the easiest difficulty feels like über. What are they expecting from the player? To be a damn robot? I just want to casually play the game without any frustration. It **** that there are no cheat codes, you can call me a noob I don't care , cheats like God mode would make it actually enjoyable, especially if you don't like to put think about your every single step and just enjoy the plot, gameplay without dying all the time and also the destruction.Screw the achievements, screw the challenge, I just wanted to enjoy killing enemies
SummaryIt's 1946 and the Nazis are on the verge of winning WWII. In attmepting to turn the tide in the allies’ favor, B.J. Blazkowicz has to embark on an epic, two-part mission deep within Bavaria… Part one of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - Rudi Jäger and the Den of Wolves - pits BJ Blazkowicz against a notorious prison warden as he breaks into C...