# wolfenstein's old new order > after three hours with wolfenstein i feel comfortable saying this: it seems like a solid shooter with lots of action and fun stealth mechanics > ~ ign the following is a rewrite of the wolfenstein back story by theodore miles somewhere in europe. "console wars vs pc master race" rages across the wired globe. where once players tried impressing ir hopes for fresh ideas on deaf ears garming industry forces have turned the tide in dramatic fashion behind the technologically advanced and hyper-ordinary video garme war machine of "wolfenstein: the new order." when a final weak fps man shooter assault on the industry fails player's greatest hopes for meaningful innovation fall limpy with it yet the war is almost over. the garming industry are all but triumphant victors. using unrelenting marketing force and brutally effective purchasing intimidation through hype the garming industry has brought even the most pseudo cynical players to ir knees / wallets. this regime of unabashed mediocrity now rules the cookie cutter video garming planet with an fist full of tech (demo) unfortunately you are another all-american square jawed war hero 'b.j' blazkowicz. after re-emerging into this world of badly textured darkness you must launch an impossible counter-offensive against the monstrously conventional and profoundly unimaginative garming industry regime only you dare stand up against another all-too stoppable army of generic corridor nazis dull control schemes and stiffly animated super dumb npc's. only you can stop the linear conceptual rot. only you can rewrite future garming history or - armed with lightly buttered popcorn - quietly watch a random hd no-commentary walkthrough on youtube and save yourself 30 quid on 'solid' reviews as expected several passively-aggressively middling garme reviews exist for teh garme proudly using the term "solid" to describe it - as though brazenly squeezing out another weighty log into the main stream is automatically worth admitting whenever you hear the word solid in a review read "another dependably predictable disappointment" the problem with video garme nazis there is no 'good' use of power; all power is based on lies - is ugly and abusive involves violence and insanity the problem with using nazis in video garmes is that the idea of "power"- of dominance over others - is symbolically maintained reproduced and legitimized. facism always seems to go hand in hand with the normalization and celebration of psychopathy and brutality note adam sessler's legitimate concerns about our lurid fascination with nazis near the end of ir preview uber-scottish garme caricature fergus reed says that blazkowicz seems (genetically?) destined to kill other humans who somehow inherently deserve to be systematically murdered with religious zeal and ruthless inhuman efficiency > fergus: "you know i've seen a few dimwits over the years. cocky kids with more self-esteem than sense. bona-fide crazy some of them are. i mean they talk tough yeah but they can't back it up. that's what i like about you blazko. you're the craziest flocker of them all. and you back up every last ounce of it. you were born to kill nazis you know that?" wolfenstein's platform agnostic fascism note that in wolfenstein one may easily replace "nazi" with "american" and nothing would change; that is the fascism of its violently modern hyper-technologically advanced and nakedly imperialist society appears entirely platform agnostic - are we really in the depths of nazi germany or is this just another bright happy day spent in amerika's global shopping maul? (apparently blazko is enthusiastically performing all this essential dirty work just so ey can sit around and smell the barbecue in the land of the free - just like the traditional suburban home dweller ey sees himself as) while on the moon base blazko picks up a newspaper clipping (edited) which reads: "the world has never been more peaceful than it is right now new study proves. americans are wealthy and healthy and according to the study they are happier than before content with ir lives and have a positive outlook on the future" even romana's diary entry #23 says the exact same thing "[..] i should keep fighting but who is there to fight? everyone is a nazi now. or at least they pretend to be. i can no longer tell the difference" doubts about 'camp' nazism regarding allegedly 'amusing' 'cartoonish' or ridiculously 'camp' nazis: when people (not mere 'characters') appear in media that are over the top in both costume and manner ("all that po-faced iconography tight black leather and strutting about like madman - what a joke") - what is often truly 'over the top' is the degree to which what appears seemingly 'laughable' about them has to be automatically accepted as laughable as something entirely fun(tm) - and therefore completely harmless. this is a carelessly dismissive attitude with serious consequences as usual it was charlie chaplin who got it correct; ir portrayal of hitler in "the great dictator" was acutely accurate - being both serious and saddening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io0q1q7o1no the idea that 'everything has a funny side to it' - that everything is capable of being laughed at and should be - is too often itself an aggressive ideology that must be ridiculed and critically questioned > i can not believe with such certainty. for me in everything there must be doubt. otherwise there's no room to question. to learn. look at this place. this is the fruit of unquestioned ferocious conviction. this is where absolute certainty leads. > nazi death camp prisoner from wolfenstein: the new order // republic of bob