@behardy24 said:
@BranKetra said:
@behardy24: Yes. It was one of my contending choices as 2014 Game of the Year. The AI was very responsive in comparison to other first person shooters, creative, and it used brute force when applicable. That combination of traits made it a challenging, worthwhile experience. It does not feel short, either, even though I completed it in three days from a save after the WWII raid on Deathshead's compound.
I didn't think the AI was that very good overall. I remember there being constant hiccups of the AI just standing there and not shooting (being unresponsive). Also, if you hide behind specific objects the enemy will sometimes just standstill and wait until you come out. I think where the enemy really shines is how diverse they were in terms of enemy types. With their being different types of enemies, from foot soldiers to iron-plated super humans, it required different strategys to make you the player control the engagement and not get overrun. Though it wasn't very deep, since ultimately you just had to put a different amount bullets into different types enemy, it still had a bit of thought required going into. I imagine the harder you go on the difficulty scale, the more thought it would required.
I agree that it does not feel short. It had amazing pacing throughout. Whether be it the cutscenes or the individual levels, it never overstayed its welcome and was all the right amount of time.
What did you think about that game's "identity crisis"? Do you think there was one? On one hand, it wanted to be a serious,blight,dark tale of how the Nazi conquer the entire planet and how the people who do or don't fit under the Nazi's narrow way of the "master race" suffer the consequences. On the other hand, I felt like the game wanted to be comical satire of "FUTURISTIC NAZI!? LET'S SHOOT THEM!" Though it lean towards the former, I always felt like it constantly went back to the comedy just when things started taking a serious tone. What do you think?
At first, I utilized one strategy for Wolfenstein, trench warfare, then I went through the remainder of The New Order utilizing guerrilla warfare.FYI, Tactics are more specific to tasks than strategy. They take place during battle rather than strategy which is formed before.
I wonder what difficulty and platform you played it on. I have the PlayStation 4 version and I played it on "I AM DEATH INCARNATE!" setting. On that difficulty, enemies on patrol walk on a predetermined repeating path. Once alerted to the presence of the player, they use various combat tactics. Some rush, some flank, and some act as tank units, and others use cover, go prone, and force the player to change position with the use of grenades. There was no point that I felt like I was encouraged to stop playing due to a lack of AI.
The premise of The New Order is unrealistic to a certain extent, but The New Order is a serious game because it takes itself seriously. The way that game plays with reference to real history is what makes the fiction of it compelling. Nazi Germany military could have won World War II and the gore is a reminder of that reality. The gusto Blazkowicz shows is a portrayal of what soldiers are actually like; Americans were enthusiastic about entering World War II to defeat the Axis Powers. One only need to look at the way industries changed from civilian to military production during that time to see that.
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