Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
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| Studio |
 MachineGames
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| Publisher |
 Bethesda Softworks
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| Senior Developer | Jens Matthies, Arcade Berg | ||
| composer | Mick Gordon , Martin Stig Andersen | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4: October 27, 2017 Nintendo Switch: June 29, 2018 |
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| platform | Windows , PlayStation 4 ( Pro ), Xbox One , Nintendo Switch | ||
| Game engine | id Tech 6 | ||
| genre | First person shooter , action adventure | ||
| Subject | Alternative world , dystopia | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Mouse , keyboard , gamepad | ||
| system advantages preconditions |
Windows 7,8,10 (64-bit) Intel Core i5-3570 / i7-3770 or AMD FX-8350 / Ryzen 5 1400, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or AMD Radeon R9 290, 55 GB storage space, broadband Internet connection |
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| medium | Blu-ray , download , module (computer games) | ||
| language | German | ||
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| information | USK version with content adjustments. | ||
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a first person shooter that was developed by the Swedish developer MachineGames and published by the publisher Bethesda Softworks on October 27, 2017 for the Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms . The action game is the sequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) and the tenth regular part of the Wolfenstein series. The game was released for Nintendo Switch on June 29, 2018 .
action
The New Colossus continues the dystopian alternative world story of Wolfenstein: The New Order , in which the Third Reich won World War II with the help of futuristic technology and the resistance fighters of the Kreisauer Kreis fight against the Nazi regime. The sequel begins in 1961, a few months after the series protagonist BJ Blazkowicz defeated the regime's Oberstgruppenführer and long-time arch enemy Wilhelm “Deathshead” Strasse .
In The New Colossus the National Socialists occupied the USA , where a revolution against the occupiers is to be organized. The racist secret society Ku Klux Klan has also joined the occupiers. The antagonist of the game is SS-Obergruppenführer Irene Engel, who appeared in the previous one. The player slips into the role of the lone fighter BJ Blazkowicz , who single- handedly has to fight the Nazis with machine guns and axes. His battered body is being patched up again and again. The narrative sequences lead Blazkowicz's crew via their submarine headquarters on missions to irradiated New York, the secret base of Area 51 and even to Venus .
Detailed plot:
The plot starts with the last events of Wolfenstein: The New Order . The opponents of the regime save the seriously injured William Blazkowicz from the fortress of Deathshead before it is destroyed.
Blazkowicz falls into a coma and is brought aboard the submarine "Eva's Hammer". At the same time it is revealed that Anya, Blazkowicz's lover, is pregnant with twins. The submarine is attacked by the Regime-Obergruppenführer Irene Engel, a sadistic commander who takes Caroline and Fergus or Wyatt prisoner (the player makes the decision indirectly through the selection of the person within a flashback).
Blazkowicz forges a rescue plan. For this he lets himself be captured and is taken to Engel's airship , the Ausmerzer. Engel tries to get her daughter Sigrun to behead Caroline, but Sigrun refuses, which leads to Engel killing Caroline. The brutality and aversion to her mother causes a change of heart at Sigrun and she takes action against angels. During the fight Blazkowicz is able to put on the protective suit of the executed Caroline. This compensates for Blazkowicz's physical deficits. Together with Caroline's body, Sigrun and Blazkowicz flee back to the submarine.
After Caroline's funeral, the group decides to continue with Caroline's plan to end the regime. The goal is to liberate America and use it as the central base from which the rest of the world can be liberated. For this, the player travels to the destroyed Manhattan to contact a resistance group in the Empire State Building. It is there that Blazkowicz finds and recruits Grace Walker, a scarred African American, and Norman "Super Spesh" Caldwell, a lawyer and conspiracy theorist. Both join the resistance and forge a plan to kill the top regime leaders. In addition, the high command in Roswell and New Mexico is to be destroyed. Blazkowicz travels to Roswell with a portable nuclear warhead before heading to Caldwell's hideout. Caldwell takes him to his bunker and to a tunnel that leads to the High Command, where Blazkowicz dumps the bomb in the base's reactor and detonates it.
After escaping from Roswell, he makes a detour to Mesquite, his hometown. Blazkowicz's father, Rip, shows up and punishes him, justifying the abuse of Blazkowicz and his mother. Blazkowicz kills his father when Engel's troops arrive and capture Blazkowicz again. Caldwell later visits Blazkowicz as a lawyer and tells him about the plan for his liberation. Engel sees through this plan and kills Caldwell.
Blazkowicz is sentenced to death and beheaded at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in front of millions of people on a television event. However, the resistance fighter steals the head and Set surgically transplants it onto a biotechnologically manufactured super soldier's body. Blazkowicz breaks into a bunker hidden under New York and steals a file on New Orleans . Blazkowicz travels there to assemble several freedom fighters under the command of communist Horton Boone.
They break out of New Orleans and flee on the submarine. The resistance fighters are considering taking Engels airship, which is tasked with destroying the resistance fighters. However, takeover is impossible while the automated defense system called ODIN is active. To deactivate ODINs, the codes that are on Venus in a facility must be stolen. As a pretext for the trip to Venus, Blazkowicz assumes the identity of an actor and is invited to Venus to audition a propaganda film; Blazkowicz finds the ODIN codes and returns to Earth. Now the resistance fighters can deactivate ODIN and capture the airship's command systems. Engel, who is a guest on a talk show on national television in California, is killed by Blazkowicz. Blazkowicz and the resistance fighters then announce the beginning of a revolution for the liberation of America.
In a post-credits scene, Blazkowicz takes the ring, his mother's heirloom, back from Engel's body and proposes marriage to Anya. The revolution is depicted in the credits sequence.
DLC "The Freedom Chronicles"
From December 2017 to March 2018, three more games under the name " The Freedom Chronicles " were released as a download extension (DLC) to the main game, in which the player slips into the role of various resistance fighters:
- December 14, 2017: Episode 1 - The Adventures of gunslingers Joe ( The Adventures of Joe Gunslinger )
- January 30, 2018: Episode 2 - The Diaries of Agent Stiller Tod ( The Diaries of Agent Silent Death )
- March 13, 2018: Episode 3 - The incredible exploits of Captain Wilkins ( The Deeds of Captain Wilkins )
development
Studio MachineGames began developing Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2014. It was first hinted at at E3 2016 and officially announced on June 12, 2017 in the same context with a trailer . The port for the Nintendo Switch was revealed on September 14, 2017. The title alludes to the poem The New Colossus , which is recorded on a bronze plaque in the Statue of Liberty in New York and was quoted by Blazkowicz at the end of Wolfenstein: The New Order .
presentation
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was released for Windows PCs with 64-bit operating systems and the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game consoles . On the PlayStation 4 Pro and the Xbox One X , the game can be played with 4K resolution at 60 FPS , but without HDR functions.
Changes to the German version
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus has been adapted for Germany for legal reasons. All swastikas and other National Socialist symbols have been removed. In addition, all other references to National Socialism were largely changed, so the player fights against a nameless "regime" and not against Nazis or the Third Reich. The character Adolf Hitler was edited for the German version and bears the name "Heiler", who is greeted with "Mein Kanzler" and does not have a mustache. In addition, a dialogue was changed in which Hitler speaks about the protagonist. The reference to his mother's Jewish origins was removed, as well as the fact that his father had extradited her to the Nazis and died in an extermination camp . In the German version, she dies in captivity. However, the scenes of violence were preserved. Wolfenstein II was classified from the age of 18 by the entertainment software self-regulation (USK) . Uncut PC versions could not be activated on a German Steam account.
After the USK announced that it would also take social equality into account in games in 2018, the uncut version was checked again and approved. Since November 22, 2019, the uncut version can be purchased in Germany.
Voice actor
| role | Original speaker | German speaker |
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| BJ Blazkowicz | Brian Bloom | Johannes Berenz |
| Anya Oliwa | Alicja Bachleda | Gundi Eberhard |
| Irene Engel | Nina Franoszek | Tina Eschmann |
| Fergus Reid | Gideon Emery | Roland Hemmo |
| Provost Wyatt III | AJ Trauth | René Dawn-Claude |
| Grace Walker | Debra Wilson | Franziska Pigulla |
| Caroline Becker | Bonita Friedericy | Katja Brugger |
| Sigrun angel | Alyssa Preston | Lara Trautmann |
| Horton Boone | Christopher Heyerdahl | |
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Adolf Hitler / healer |
Norbert Weisser |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus system requirements | Can I Run Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
- ↑ The Freedom Chronicles: All DLC episodes in the test . In: Gameswelt . March 20, 2018. Accessed December 21, 2018.
- ↑ Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus - First DLC chapter of the Freedom Chronicles appears today . In: GameStar . December 14, 2017. Accessed December 21, 2018.
- ↑ Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus - Episode 2 DLC now available . In: PlayFront . January 30, 2018. Accessed December 21, 2018.
- ↑ Wolfenstein 2 - DLC "The Incredible Deeds of Captain Wilkins" is coming next week . In: GameStar . March 11, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ↑ Jose Otero: E3 2017: Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus Announced With Release Date . In: IGN . Point Davis . June 11, 2017. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ↑ Andrew Goldfarb: E3 2016: Bethesda Teases Wolfenstein: New Colossus . In: IGN . Point Davis . June 12, 2016. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
- ↑ Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus for Nintendo Switch confirmed on 4players.de (accessed on September 28, 2017)
- ↑ https://www.xbox.com/de-DE/games/xbox-one/xbox-one-x-enhanced-list
- ↑ Felix Schütz: Wolfenstein 2 in the test - page 3 - technology, censorship and evaluation. In: PC Games. October 27, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
- ↑ USK will in future consider social adequacy when it comes to age ratings of games. August 9, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Bethesda Germany: Big News 2.0: On Friday, November 22nd, “Wolfenstein: The New Order”, “Wolfenstein: The Old Blood” and “Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus” will now also be officially released as an international version in Germany. Twitter, November 21, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .