Wolfenstein II is coming this year for Xbox, PS4 and PC. Read the latest about The New Colossus including release date, price and gameplay.
If Nazi-occupied America sounds familiar, you’ ve probably been watching The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Video. Unlike Wolfenstein II, however, the TV show didn’ t feature fire-breathing robots.
The new game, announced at E3 2017, is the sequel to 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order which was also set in the 1960s. In The New Colossus it’s 1961 and it’s your job to help the protagonist, BJ Blazkowicz, to free the US from its Nazi grip.
Bethesda teased The New Colossus at E3 in 2016, but at that point it wasn’ t revealed it would be a Wolfenstein game.
It will launch on Xbox One, PS4 and Steam (PC) on 27 October.
You can pre-order the Xbox version from Microsoft’s website for £49.99.
Similarly, Steam also has its pre-order listing live and you can get the standard version for £39.99 or the deluxe package for £54.99.
There’s also a collector’s edition which comes with a 1/6 scale 12in action figure of the game’s hero packaged in a premium, 1960s-style box. The game comes in an metal case, and a 9x14in Blitzmensch poster.
As we’ ve said, the game has shifted back to the 1960s after the 2015 ‘The Old Blood’ game which was the prequel to The New Order.
In The New Colossus you have to fight the Nazis in Roswell, New Mexico, a flooded New Orleans and a post-nuclear Manhattan.
Towards the end of the trailer you’ ll see some actual gameplay, and this gives a fairly good idea of what you can expect.
Bethesda says you’ ll get to “equip an arsenal of badass guns, and unleash new abilities to blast your way through legions of advanced Nazi soldiers, cyborgs, and über soldiers in this definitive first-person shooter.”
We’ ll have to wait for any more details than that, but it’s shaping up to be a great shooter.
