The setting for New Order is perfect to take players and ”explore the realities of this new world” where a Nazi Global Empire has formed in very retro, sci-fi fashion.
That means beside reloading and firing with wild abandon we’ll experience car chases, piloting mechs, and even do a little underwater mischief as we fight the Nazi machine.
”So this is very much our own vision of what we think the setting is and should be for the future,” gameplay designer Andreas Öjerfors told Polygon. ”So we started out by looking at what we thought Wolfenstein was. We think it was the intense immersive action. We think it is a David versus Goliath theme of being grassroots against the Nazi army and now the Nazi Global Empire.” The New Order is set during an alternate reality of the 1960s.
We’re going to be taking on a variety of mech-based foes from large dog-like constructs to hulking behemoths. There’ll also be the more tried and true Super Soldier looking to make our day a bad one. Players will be picking up a lot of their firepower on the go during fire fights. ”The weapons are a really big part of who we are as a studio,” Öjerfors said.
”We’ve kind of taken look at old school game design and we kind of decided that some of the things that were left behind that shouldn’t have been left behind. So our weapons, for example, you don’t just have as many weapons as you can find, you can also dual-wield almost every weapon,” he said. ”So you know, dual-wielding shotguns is just crazy carnage. So yeah, we kind of tried to combine the old and the new.”
Wolfenstein: The New Order releases on Xbox 360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4 and PC this December.
