Wolfenstein: The New Order - from the makers of Riddick: Butcher Bay & The Darkness 1

Jason Moyer on 1/5/2014 at 23:11

If last gen games were regularly 20+ gigs, I don't find ~50GB for current gen to be all that surprising really.

Volitions Advocate on 2/5/2014 at 04:17

People were freaking out about Rage's 20 gig package, then freaked out about the low res textures. ID said that their internal build with all of the original assets was something like 180 gigs iirc. Uncompressed textures take a lot of space.

Wasn't there the same thing recently with Titan Fall? They used uncompressed PCM WAV files rather than ogg or mp3 compression for the audio?

I say bring it on. Most of us have the infrastructure to deal with it. Physical installation media should be put on flash drives these days rather than optical disks. And we're not even in the heyday of 4K displays yet.

N'Al on 20/5/2014 at 08:56

Some reviews:

(http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/20/5718792/wolfenstein-the-new-order-review) Polygon - 9/10
(http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-20-wolfenstein-the-new-order-review) Eurogamer - 6/10
(http://www.eurogamer.de/articles/2014-05-20-wolfenstein-the-new-order-test) Eurogamer.de - 8/10 <-- link is obviously in German, plus it automatically starts playing an annoying trailer, so don't click if you're not absolutely interested

Seems to be shaping up as a real love it or hate it game.

june gloom on 20/5/2014 at 10:26

If Eurogamer gave it a 6/10 that means it's probably closer to an 8/10.

only 2 hours left to download... it'll have to wait, though. Got some sleeping to do.

bukary on 20/5/2014 at 13:09

I am watching this right now. Enjoy (with me).

[video=youtube;AduQvX4nU0k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AduQvX4nU0k[/video]

N'Al on 20/5/2014 at 13:17

Yeah, I do generally like Eurogamer for giving lower than average scores in most cases - they actually make use of the full 10-point scale for their reviews! I get the impression, though, sometimes they just have lower scores for the sake of it. This may be one of those times, no idea.

I just can't imagine the game being barely better than average, given the pedigree of the developers - I absolutely love what the Riddicks and The Darkness do to stand out from the usual shooter crowd, and this Wolfenstein seems to be doing much the same things.

Eh, well, we'll know soon enough ourselves, I guess.

gunsmoke on 23/5/2014 at 01:04

Seriously, this sounded like a no brainer. The devs with a nearly perfect pedigree, AND the awesome i.p.? Shit, please be good...
deth, please report back! We don't always agree 100%, but I trust ya` on this one.

icemann on 23/5/2014 at 08:30

This ones on the summer sale list for me. Now to just wait for the summer sale to start.

henke on 23/5/2014 at 08:45

Eh, the Steam summer sale is like a month away. I wouldn't expect Wolf:TNO to show up in it. If it does it's going to be at like -25% at most.

Jason Moyer on 23/5/2014 at 08:49

It's Zenimax, it might be $5 in a month. They're pretty aggressive about marking down their games.