Plus, healing is more or less restricted to picking up medpacks – which, as players of a certain age will remember, was the norm pre- Halo. Turns out it’s pretty handy when you need to cut through a metal panel, too. The first clue comes in some of the outrageous weapons – like the wonderfully named “laserkraftwerk,” a gun that, once fully upgraded, pretty much obliterates anything you aim it at. The fast-paced and frenetic combat, which begins pretty much from the get-go, is clearly meant to show fans right away that this is a game that respects the series’ action-first roots.Īnd, indeed, as you progress you’ll appreciate just how old-school much of the action is. The first level picks up in the middle of a mission near the end of the Second World War in which the Allies are engaging in an all-out assault on a German compound controlled by Deathshead – a fanatical Aryan Nazi scientist.
That said, you’ll need to wade through an awful lot of Nazi body parts before you realize that there even is a story. It’s an unexpectedly satisfying feat of writing – with some fine voice performances, to boot – for a series that hasn’t received much in the way of accolades for its storytelling in the past. It even gives Blazko a girlfriend in the form of a sassy Polish nurse with whom he bonds over shared Nazi loathing. However, you also get a surprisingly serious story that tackles some pretty big ideas to do with discrimination, metaphysics, and Jewish mysticism. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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