The prequel to The New Order...

What is up with people releasing prequels and crap not long after a previous release? It's almost feels like they say "We know this part is boring so we'll start our series with something more action packed and exciting!" In The Old Blood it's 1946 and BJ Blazkowicz and Agent One (British guy that died in RTCW) are infiltrating Castle Wolfenstein to find the location of Deathshead's (AKA Dr. Von Psycho) compound, they are both captured and have to escape. There's talk of a Helga Von Schabbs (Referencing Dr. Schabbs from Wolf3d) being the owner of the castle, in Deathshead's tight little circle of assholes, and researching the paranormal and some dreaded long dead muckity muck in an archelogical dig in the nearby village... Almost like rebooting the Wolfenstein series AGAIN but despite re-introducing characters and locations for the first time BJ recalls seeing Super Soldiers (Giant Frankenstein like cyborg things with guns) in Deathshead's X-Labs... A mission in Return To Castle Wolfenstein...

"Holy Tribble crap! And I thought my series... Was the only thing capable... Of time paradoxes..."
-Captain James T. Kirk

At least this game/expansion pack/whatever the Hell you call it seems to try and keep true the classic feel of Wolf3d. Yes, there's a giant robo dog, cyborg dogs, Nazi super tech, but the premise remains true to the original FPS and that premise is: Escape the dungeon, battle incredible odds (But not rediculously impossible) stacked against you, save the day from the manman (Or madwoman this time around) meddling with powers they can't possible comprehend.

"I reckon y'all Nazis are gonna need a lynching 'til yer feet quit twitching! Yippie ki-yay mother..."
-BJ Blazkowicz

Why the developers try to make BJ out to be a bit of country farmboy in this and New Order? I do not know. He says words like "reckon" all the time, recalling his childhood days on the family farm... Your name is Blazkowicz! It's said in instruction manuals and websites you're born to Polish immigrants! Did they figure making you like some spaghetti western cowboy would make you more likeable as an American hero? Even Indiana Jones wasn't THAT over the top when fighting the Nazis, and he was closer to cowboy times than you!!! Ugh...

Taking everything in account, I think this is more of a Wolfenstein game than The New Order. It has it's problems but it really does bring back the Nostalgia feeling of breaking out of a Nazi controlled castle, infiltrating the town, stopping Schabbs from unleashing Operation: Eisenfaust er, I mean undead creatures from beneath the local village. Though I can't overlook those problems mentioned earlier, seems odd the developers didn't notice them or bring forth and dissolve confusing similarities, but The Old Blood is a decent shooter, original with an old school twist! There are better shooters but this one is okay in my books. It gets 3 out of 5 chainguns and this time, the chainguns are here to stay! ... Stupid New Order, bringing back a classic gun for just ONE level...