Wolfenstein: The Old Blood PC Game Review
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Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is an action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is scheduled for release on May 5, 2015 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game is a stand-alone expansion pack in the Wolfenstein series, and a prequel to 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order. Set in 1946, the single-player story follows war veteran William "B.J." Blazkowicz and his efforts to discover the locations of a Nazi compound.
The game is played from a first-person perspective and its levels are navigated on foot. The story is arranged in chapters, which players complete in order to progress through the story. It is also separated into two interconnected campaigns. The game features a variety of weapons, most of which can be dual wielded. A cover system is also present.
Development began in 2014, soon after the release of The New Order.
I just played this game and holly shit. It's like the enemies are trying to makeup for the lack of throwing grenades in "The new world order". Damn almost every second they threw a grenade!
well there weren't enough grenade throws in the new order IMO
Aufpassen! Granate! *300 explosions*
World at war flashback
@@budgetbrick5124 honestly cod 2 grenade spamming was much worse, probably due to the fact that you couldnt throw them back.
@@aninditapaul9291 I beat both on veteran and COD 5 was way worse. Most of my deaths were from suffocating in the ocean of grenades
I can recognize the levels from Return to Castle Wolfenstien!
that railway car. the nostalgia
Yeah,and I hope they remake RtCW.
Rtcw introduced me to the fps games
My favorite is probably X-labs.
New Order and Old Blood are, and may forever be my favourite entries in the series. I don't think we'll ever get a Wolfenstein as good as these. Magnificent games I'd love to forget just so I can play them again like a complete noob.
Completely agree, although i do have a soft spot for that one black sheep Wolfenstein game from 2009
More of the Same? Highly Graphical Violent? I'm in!
***** If exploding nazis heads and limbs and shooting them so hard that you can see their internal organs isn't very graphically violent then i dont know what is...
therainbowpigs
in all honesty. It isn't. It's average. As well as any torture scene is. Nothing special to see here.
@@Mushroommate7 you want violent? three words.
*RIP AND TEAR*
@@aninditapaul9291 You want even more violence?
*MANHUNT*
@@vilota8733 Manhunt is like Alice in Wonderland compared to the violence in modern games.
I really liked Rudi as a villain I wish they implemented him more his voice actor was great I wish he interacted with BJ more
Big truth probably the coolest Nazi like i could’ve seen him and bj going at it like snake and revolver ocelot through the series like metal gear also something about rudi he looks low key anime looking especially him and his dog together
wait a second, gggman, this is not a dlc, it is a standalone-prequel.
Jungäh er is hald a kaggandsi verstest du des ned oder was alder?
thank you i was fucken confused for a second
I love it how this is practically return to castle wofenstien
It's actually his another return.
But better. At least in my opinion.
I LOVED this game. took me 10 hours to finish because I really wanted to take my time. Best shooting in a modern shooter in a very long time. At this price it's a steal.
good review, sharp editing, clear and concise.
I just got this for $5 for PS4. I am impressed with the graphics, it actually looks close to PC. The beginning was really frustrating but once things get rolling, it's a lot of fun to kill the enemies. I haven't had this much fun in a single player FPS in a while.
looking good, cheap, not too much depth, exactly.
Haha, you're faster than any other big game reviewers. Great review :)
Dropdeadgamer Darshan He also does not bullshit around either, which is a refreshing change compared to the big game reviewers as you mentioned \m/.
Viewtiful Joe That's why i prefer independent game reviewers than big game reviewers :)
Dropdeadgamer Darshan Who would you recommend for me to check out?
Viewtiful Joe AngryCentaurGaming, TerraMantis and AngryJoe. Still trying to find more independent game reviewers though :)
Dropdeadgamer Darshan I heard Angry Joe kind of gone bad...I still watch his reviews though.
Machine Games have the smoothest shooters ever. No other FPS gave me so much joy only by shooting nazis.
I will wait for purchasing the retail version for PS4. It Really worth it.
Great review as always.
Uhm... hi, I come from 2019... I have some bad news...
@@ESFAndy011 well done.
Yeah... about that... so basically...
Doom is back.
@@aninditapaul9291 He was talking about shooting Nazis.
@@agamefan4481 e
Loved the New Order, now one of favourite games right now. Definitely gonna pick this beauty up.
$20 for 6 hours is A-okay buddy....
ProReborn Way more than 6 hours if you go for all the achievments. I did and i totally got my moneys worth
MCHellshit I played through the game only once, and it was still worth it.
A game's worth should NOT be based solely on playtime. This is one of the very things that plagues the industry's ability to price effectively. I'll take a quality 6 hours over a monotonous, inflated 40 that has little to offer in the grand scheme.
I'm speaking from the future (2019) and it is still 20 bucks.... possibly worth it, but after wolfenstein 1 and 2 (the reboots) I'm over it
You keep saying DLC, it's a standalone game like Dead Rising Off The Record. It has the same amount of achievements as The New Order (51), 7 Chapters, 10 Challenge maps, 64 Gold collectables like 10+ letters to find, 16 perks upgrades and just like New Order you choose which person you want to save... My point here is your getting a whole lot of game for just £13.85 on PS4 or £12.25 on PC. I preordered it on PS4 when I sell it on I might actually make money considering I got £5 a voucher on amazon (payed £7.60).
I like the system which forces you to pick up your ammo/armor. It makes you explore more and for me it made me more wise with the ammo and armor I had. I think it was a good thing for the game and a nice throwback. The game doesn't just hand everything to you.
***** Even COD doesn't make you do this, it's just annoying for a game that tries to sell itself as old shcool.
Gggmanlives They totally did it on purpose, there's even an article on Gamasutra about it. Even after significant disdain they decided to keep it for TOB. It's a shame, but it doesnt detract from the experience that much.
MightySavagE
True, but I'd rather it didn't exist.
Gggmanlives I wish ammo was auto-picked, since you cannot go over with it like with HP.
@@Gggmanlives ironically, for me both Wolfenstein games are like a "best of" of everything ass about this generation of games. checkpoints, screen shaking, messy to inexistent IA, broken stealth with completely overpowered melee, etc. they sure tried to develop fps friendly for console players it seems. to think same editor more or less killed Prey with bad marketing, investing everything in Wolfenstein licence..
Thanks for the review. Took me 11 hours on Uber difficulty, and challenge mode gives enough replayability, so the price is really good in my view.
I love that all the best aspects of The New Order return here. Top notch shooting mechanics and choice, even better combat scenarios, cool and emotional character moments, memorable Blazko narration, just being absolutely hilarious, humanising the Nazis with either funny conversations or poignant ones like the guy crying over his wife in the tavern. I found being able to turn AI vs AI a lot of fun in the second half, which is especially useful for the end battle in chapter 6. They even bothered putting in one choice which affects the ending, considering this only took 1 year of development.
For me this game is much longer than 5 hours and I'm just playing on normal with occasional, but not frequent deaths. I like exploring the secret areas as well. The only thing I'd disagree with in the review is that I find picking up items is great and makes it more frantic. It also makes you more aware of your environment and what you have picked up and what you haven't. The stealth section also wasn't that bad, it was actually quite tense and the atmosphere was good. I definitely didn't want any MORE of it but it didn't take away from the game imo.
This game takes me around 10 hours to complete, and a lot of other people are getting the same time. This definitely is more like an old school EXPANSION than it is a "DLC" imo. This is the Resurrection of Evil to your Wolfenstein. New weapons, some new enemies, new environments, solid narrative and story and the same great gameplay. Average length of 8-10 hours on normal difficulty. It's worth every penny. If people don't support this and torrent it or wait for sales then you all deserve DRM and more EA style DLC. Machine Games did us good here.
i actually like the stealth in the first part of the game
I personally found the difficulty to be complete bullcrap half the time, and that's coming ftom a guy who thought Doom 2016s ultra violence difficulty was a little to easy.
You gotta play it slowly and be xtra sneaky dont rush in
Lasers! Gaming I have played that way, it doesn't make a big difference.
Lasers! Gaming unless you're avoiding enemies altogether, but that'sp not enjoyable
Don't rush too much, if you expect this game to play like Doom then u are wrong, I completed in on Uber and i didn't have much problems except for 2 or 3 sections. Also if you are dying too much, try to use stealth since it makes game way easier
Damn guys we got a pro gamer here
republic commando, pls?
Nikolay Efimov The sale ends tomorrow too.
Nikolay Efimov 5 is fair
Kraze Living c ok ...
I beat this in 3 hours. But it does have lots of replay value and the challenge levels are awesome. 8/10
I feel like the old blood's graphics options were desgined for future GPU's in mind. My 1070 can't even hold 30 when every is as high as possible.
Use the id5tweaker mod, I can play this on high at 144hrz and it's smooth as butter
5 hrs? You must have runned and gunned through this game. Im playing it full stealth with exception of few forced alarm sections and it took me 5 hours to beat the first 2 chapters. To each hus iwn, im actually really glad that you can stealth most of this game (hell, there are certain sections I don't even kill anyone and just sneak by after some trial and error) because stealth games are my favorite genre, wdll open world too. I plan on doing a full on murder run after I finish so I can use more of the weapons except the silenced pistol but fir now its stealth all the way. And I liked the beginning, its something wd dont see a lot of, most fps games are run and gun now. I also love the dream levels where you're taken vack too wolfenstien 3d with the current weapons, brings back so much nostalgia. For me, this was the besf $18 I spent on games in a while, im sure ill get 20 to 25 hrs out of my first play through, sneaking and exploring every nook and cranny plus a few play throughs of run and gun.
D00MTR33 I don't know what to say. It took me 5 hours. I played as I normally play any game.
Ugh yeah the opening really does drag, but once the game really started its great. Although personally I've been having more issues with the stealth than I remember from the last game. Detection and just the general balance feels a tad bit off compared to what I remember of the bigger game. Still a great DLC game, and I love that they brought back and developed Helga's character and the supernatural stuff.
Hey Gggman! i know its a bit different from what you normally review, but think you could look at Verdun? its a realistic WW1 shooter similar to Red Orchestra, looks really cool but i want your thoughts on it before i buy it?
Thanks Man!
+Salokin Sekwah i want him to do a review on red orchestra but verdun was originally a browser based game
I thought I might be the only one who hated the prison escape at the start. In my original play through I got so board waiting on the guards I just set it to the easiest difficulty and ran through.
That... is a great idea. I might try that just so I can get to the good parts of the game. I rage quitted out of impatience trying to get through that prison escape then dying countless times.
What I love about The Old Blood is the level design, when I got killed (uber difficulty)
, it's my own fault for not moving constantly, there are always enough armor and health in each arena, and covers for run, stop, shoot, run.....
Great review!
playing along with New order after some time, and holy fuck i dont know many fps's with such a satisfying shooting, those headshots in particular are daaaaaaaaaamn!
I completely agree on the forced stealth level overstaying its welcome. Probably my least favourite part of the game but everything else was solid fun.
1:03 Why did Germans develop a combat shotgun as a weapon of war when they've always been scared shitless of shotguns as "inhumane" weapons of war? Because alternate timeline, maybe. Also, why does that shotgun eject casings to the right if it also feeds from the right? See also Bandit pistols from Borderlands 2.
3:01 Again with the toggle-lock pistol! Yeah, it's supposed to be reminiscent of the Luger P08, but that was obsolete long before it was replaced by the Walther P38. In the Wolfenstein series, toggle-lock pistols are still being issued in 1980! Why would Germans, who are known for technological advancement (for better or worse), still be clinging onto an obsolete pistol decades after it had been outmoded and outclassed by other designs?!
6:04 When you saw off shotgun barrels, it leaves burs which have to be sanded off or you won't get good patterns. A disc sander works best, but a belt sander will do. Otherwise, if you have to use improvised means or manual tools, it'll be a pain.
i love how bj just kinda falls off o a cliff and just quietly and calmly says "fuck"
Old blood is a DLC? I thought its a separate game of wolfenstein?
It's not as good as TNO but it doesn't need to be. It was a very fun journey back to Castle Wolfenstein and had some cool twists.
This game is short but for some reason it took me 35gbs but to be honest both of the games are still very enjoyable
yea I forgot I had it. I have like...481 games on steam lol. I just randomly decided to install it about an hour ago and saw it was over 30 gigs. definitely gonna uninstall after I'm done playing through it. I generally dont play many single player games these days. Just feeling giving it a shot.
I picked both games up for 8 quid and played through them in 2 days , between that and doom old school style FPS is back
This is a great review structurally. This dude know his shit
Gman, ❤ ya. Funny revisiting some of your old videos and not hearing your humor, farts and mom jokes that make your new reviews so enjoyable.
Definitely agree with you, G-man, in that this game is one of the best FPSs I've played. I had much fun with it. Love those meaty arsensal of weapons.
Excellent game and I don't really consider this a DLC.
Thanks, Brad.
Really great expansion, weird thing is that the TNO has loads of stutter for me but TOB runs butter smooth. I think machine games better optimised this standalone.
sawn off shotty was my favourite gun in this game. the armored shotgunner was even one shot with it with a point blank headshot
Great review gggman ! But how is the level design of the dlc ? Much more open or linear ? :/
Nacho-fu91 Sarkasmo Very linear, but in a good way.
For what it was, it was a damn good piece of DLC.
Loved this review. Liked, subscribed, and will probably download this game tomorrow.
***** Thanks for the sub!
Love your channel dude, thanks for all the awesome vids. I just picked this game up based on your review. Cheers!
So this Game looks much better than the main game? In your review you said the new order was a mixed bag yet this looks gorgeous.
I got this game since I already preordered new DOOM, can't wait to play it ;)
Have you ever reviewed wolfenstein 3d? Because I couldn't find it. And with b.j. Blazckowicz being your profile picture and all, I thought you must have reviewed it at some point.
suicideassassin 6 Yeah I have reviewed it.
My only real problem with this game was that I felt like I was gunna have a fit every time someone fired there gun.
Is the smg in this dlc? If not I'm probably not going to buy it because it was my favorite gun in the new order but you only get it for one mission
Does this look and play better on pc vs xbox one x?
I'm glad to hear it's good. I loved The New Order and was looking for more of the same.
This,blade of agony and the new order are my favorite wolfenstein games
Well... About that first prison stage. After you power down that super soldier, you can kill him with your pipe, take his gun and not lose it until you proceed through another powered door.
And I do not consider this stand-alone prequel to be DLC.
Is this being released in two parts?
was looking for a review from mainstream sites like ign, gamespot, etc but came through this. really good review, everything seemed and sounded thorough. anyways, $20 for 5 hours? ill get this when its cheap
ned sevensix I still think it's funny that people think $20 is bad when we're charged $40 in Australia.
If I havent played wolfenstein the new order and I want to play that should I play this first?
Eruntien killbane You don't have to, it's meant to work well being played after TNO. Either way, it'll give you a good background story.
I love FPS but never played New Order. Should I start with this...or play N.O. first?
Jerry Joe TNO
My game looks fuzzy and not a whole lot of detail. Is it just me or can someone help?
Tyler Oberuc have you got film grain on?
joshua powell No I figured out it was my digital vibrance I have that on for counter strike
"Shooting nirvana"
*see a super shotgun at the beginning*
*BOI*
This review begins, and ends, with Blazko saying the same word, in the same tone 0:07 - 6:25
You're one of my favourite video game reviewers!!! Can you please review Subnautica?
How much did the game cost in your country? "I would have liked it to last a little bit longer, especially consider the pricetag"
For me that was a pisitive thing, because of the short story, they sold it for only about 15€ (hungary)
I figured this game would be no more than 2 or 3 hours, let alone 5. With that much time, surely some parts stand out for the sake of replayability, and the drop in price is more valuable than a few more hours of material.
The Old Blood's character is named Helga von Schabbs, not Helga von Bulow from RtCW.
Two completely different characters.
DamienAzreal Same hair, same first name, involved in the occult. It's basically the same thing.
No disrespect, I just have an honest question. I always find it odd that so many UA-camrs focus their views of a game largely on the "bang for your buck" mentality. I personally don't understand that mindset, but I would like to have an honest discussion with you about why you may focus on that. (Just judging by your critique on the length and price of the game)
Logan Spence How is that NOT important? Don't you care whether a game is 2 or 8 hours long?
Gggmanlives No not really. Because personally, I would rather a game be 4 hours long and it be fantastic all 4 hours, than a game that is 60+ hours and it overstayed its welcome 40 hours ago. I mean we all loved Star Fox 64, and that game you can beat roughly less than an hour.
Gggmanlives I would rather play Journey or Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeros hundreds of times over then play say, any of the Final Fantasy XIII games once.
Gggmanlives Also remember, most people don't even beat the games they buy, in fact statistically, 9 out of 10 people don't even beat the game they are playing.
kotaku.com/5832450/nine-out-of-10-will-not-finish-the-game-they-are-playing
Not to say long games are bad, I just don't see games being short as negative at all. Hell there are plenty of games that are long that I love, the Arkham series, Bioshock 1 and Infinite, Far Cry 3, Deus Ex series, Half life series, etc. They have their place, however, saying a game is bad or "a negative point is that it's only a few hours long" in my opinion, is flawed. We love Star Fox, FTL, Portal, GunPoint, Braid, Five Nights at Freddy's, the Stanley Parable, etc. these are short games that we all love, so I personally don't understand why shortness is considered bad.
Length of a game shouldn't be as important in the way you are presenting it. It should be about pacing. I mean Final Fantasy XIII is 15 hours until you get out of the damn tutorial, it lags and lags and lags and you're 13 hours in and still in a tutorial (not to mention that game borderline plays for you) and you just want it to end already, where you play games like FTL or Portal, both games you can beat in like an hour or 2 and guess what? You constantly go back to those games over and over again, why? Because they are paced extremely well and are fun in their own right. But if you keep focusing so much on how long a game is and factoring it as a positive or negative critique, you kind of pigeon hole developers, saying that their games need to be at least 15 hours or longer or it's not worth my money and then greedy publishers see that and then you start seeing arbitrary ways being forced into games to make them longer than their proper lengths. I.E. Final Fantasy XIII, Infamous: Second Son, the infamous "Find the pieces of the Triforce in Wind Waker" nobody liked that mission (though (I still love that game) etc.
Gggmanlives But what your thoughts on what I've said, I honestly want to know. Promise this is legit and not a troll.
Awesome Stuff!! picking it up. would love to hear your opinion of far cry 2 .. replaying it now and enjoying it much more :)
I will buy this. When is offer. In meantime, I am busying on my real life.
Should I play old blood and then new order or new order first?
The Stalker thank you
Does It have the zombies from Return to Castle ?
Sure does
This game was even better than New Order. Was amazing.
Was really saddened when it ended. Could have been a full sized game but if you play slowly and explore everything you actually play just as long as New Order. This isnt just a standalone addon in my opinion.
I actually nearly always played stealth. Nearly impossible finishing the game on Über without relying on it.
Didnt see a issue in it.
Old Blood is everything new order and colossus should have been
If this involves Nazis and the actual castle then is it almost a pseudo-remake of Return to Castle Wolfenstein?
dyldragon1 It's the first chapter of RTCW pretty much.
This isn't a remake.
Great review, i expect this game to go down in price. Will buy it when it's either $15 or $10
The forced stealth was a slog but (I guess this is considered a spoiler so yea) I kind of thought zombies where a bit of a pushover enemy type. When I first saw them I just used the luger and one bullet to the head, dead. I just didn't see them as a threat kind of more of a joke. Which made moments like the sawn off shotgun scene kind of a joke to me.
+Waluigi666
well, that scene was suppose to be a joke...I think.
i was going to get wolfenstein the new order and rise of the triad but i really don't know how they play compared to other shooters bryan t
After playing this game, I think my body is ready for the upcoming DOOM
Same.
I liked this over the New Colossus and The New Order. I like the plots of the older games better too.
it would be awesome if they could release multiplayer for TNO game some day.
Great Review as always, definitely buying this DLC when I have the budget.
Wolfenstein TNO or Old blood?
i don't know which one to get
Andrew Kelley Both.
Maybe TOB first and the TNO then?
Andrew Kelley Get TNO, it has a very good story & long gameplay.
For this one, the gameplay is around 20 hours but the story doesn't really mean much.
+Andrew Kelley definitely prioritise tno it has much more content but both games pack a punch
+zubin arya I just bought both on black Friday and I'm having trouble deciding which first. I know tno came out first and that's the developers intention, but knowing the old blood is a prequel its a toss up.
If they could mix everything from The New Order and make it open world like that one Wolfenstein game, was it 2009?
The only issue i have with the game is you cant auto pick up items, sure it makes it a bit more challenging in some circumstances, but i wish it had a setting to enable it, aside from that its a great game.
And its locked at 60fps
Great review, mate! Did you prefer this to the main game then? Oh and was this game as pulpy and cheesy as they said it would be?
baxopoka98 I prefer the main game because it has a better length, but this is a really fun remake of RTCW.
Gggmanlives Fair enough! RTCW is one of my favourite FPS games of all time so can't go wrong there!
baxopoka98
Then you've got good taste!
Gggmanlives Coming from the gggman himself... that's quite the compliment!
Do you plan on reviewing Black Mesa now that it's in Early Access on Steam?
Steven Cropper Yeah but I reviewed the mod, not the Early Access verison.
Gggmanlives Oh, I must have missed the mod review. Thanks for replying!
Gggmanlives You don't actually have a review for Black Mesa on your channel...
***** Gggmanlives I found the same to be true after searching the channel just now. Unless there's an alternate account you have, Ggg, there is no BM review.
Great review. Please review Intrude.
Main issue with idTech 5 & 4 to extent is their engine compatability with Nvidia GPUs, so ATI/AMD users get shafted there.
What do you all think about id Software? They are legends
I am still ultra confused about which games are canon (currently).
I still believe RtCW comes first followed by Wolfenstein2009. Wolfenstein TNO would have to be next since it not only features Caroline Becker who recalls being shot by Hans Grosse, but BJ and Deathshead are still strong enemies. Plus BJ recalls swimming through the pools of water in the X-Labs from RtCW.
However, there is Wolfenstein TOB which is a direct prequel to TNO, but it would strongly contradict the events of RtCW. But since it does not contain Hans Grosse (instead Rudi Jaeger in his place), it would imply Wolfenstein2009 is still canon(Once again, Caroline remember the event s of that game).
Nazi go brrr is all that matters everything else is decoration
i have this on ps flash sale for 5 bucks, same with new order,yeah the games aren't new but are good games and 10 for both i think is a good deal
The locked 60fps limitation of the id tech 5 engine is a real downer on this series :(
Am I the only one who found the gunplay better in this dlc than the original game?
i don't want to kill doggies :(
Flávia Mello then play TNO. You kill robotic dogs instead.
Flávia Mello They're evil doggies.
Lol
Any plans on making a review on Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Operation Resurrection?
+TheC0ckPushupMaster Nope.
+TheC0ckPushupMaster you mean the old game from 2003 ? i loved that game, much better than this one. sure its old and doesn't have much in cinematics, but it was more fun, less controling the user and directing him like cattle.
The game itself was too short for its price tag, would you say it was worth its price tag?
Ghostly Gizzles It's $40 in Australia, which is too high for the length.
Gggmanlives Holy hell! 40 bucks? Australians get screwed! I mean, I knew regular games were $100, but $40 for this dlc? That's insane.
25$ in canada!!! , i will take it once the price goes down
This is a nice expansion pack and if you like The New Order, this will not be a disappointment. Serious drawback is the end boss: open area, hard to kill and spawning Nazi soldiers as well. Other thing: maybe a tip to review Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. It is not a triple A game but unexpected quite good besides the stupid dueling in between the levels.
+gast128
the dueling is actually pretty good. It's better than the one in Bound in Blood. It adopted both dueling systems from the first two games and added it's elements to it, resulting in a fair minigame.
@Pepper Millers: I have now played the other two 'Call of Juarez' myself and I can say that the dueling in all those games pretty much ruins it for me. It's pity since those games are actually quite decent besides some other annoyances.
Wolf ET those were the days
I prefer this to New Blood. Better weapon models, more diverse gameplay, less fat on its bones when it comes to pacing, and the entire Wolfenstein 3D remastered in glorious form. It's a lean, mean, muscular machine of an FPS game.
Ah that sucks you still have to keep mashing E so much, was hoping they'd change that.