These Nazis are being portrayed as badass robots, rather than horrifying humans. I totally get the catharsis that comes with killing virtual Nazis, and have indulged in my fair share.īut as someone with two grandparents who survived the Holocaust, something about this reinvention of the series didn’t sit right with me. Wolfenstein 3D hooked me on PC gaming 20 years ago. I’m used to video games that use Nazis as villains, turning them into fodder for our amusement.
Once again, William “B.J.” Blazkowicz has to kill a whole bunch of Nazis. Democracy has fallen, and the Nazis rule with an army of mechanized super-soldiers. The game imagines an alternate history, in which the Nazis won World War II. Follow I first heard about Wolfenstein: The New Order, the concept unsettled me.