If there is one thing you know you will be able to do in a Wolfenstein game it's kill Nazis good and dead. Now the new Wolfenstein heading our way has plenty of fresh and new ways to kill Nazi's dead that usually involve somehow disintegrating their bones using weapons of the occult. The question is how do you explain to the gamer that B.J. Blazkowicz is a Nazi killing badass who will do all of this. With an opening cinematic of course.
The clip runs like any good WWII action clip should. First the Nazis get tricked, then they get shot, then they get beat up and then they get melted by an ancient glowing artifact. Happily, this is the Nazi's lot in life and it seems B.J. Blazkowicz is perfectly suited for delivering it to them. The only question I have is if B.J. has this power in the opening cinematic why doesn't he have it in the levels we've played?
Matthew Razak is Destructoid's Associate editor and co-founder of film site Flixist. He began as community member "cowzilla" and was since sequestered to write brainy features material. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife.
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Man I just love this trend of rebooting game series with the base name of the franchise. Except I guess they get a pass here, as the original was technically Wolfenstein 3D, which is somewhat amusing as the game was not really 3D at all.
I was mildly interested to see how this turned out, I enjoyed RTCW. Now I'm a little more interested, I hope it's all quite tongue in cheek and doesn't take things too seriously.
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6:00 PM on 04.18.2009
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B.J. Blazkowicz the greatest action hero for the next-gen? i think so.
also is it me or are all embedded gametrailers vids cut in half?
But who am I to question the historical accuracy off a game that contains undead Nazi's?