A Step Back
It’s impossible to write about Machine Games’ Wolfenstein: The Old Blood without mentioning their other, far better game Wolfenstein: The New Order. The New Order is a brilliant shooter that took genre conventions, put them in an interesting alternate reality, and then grounded that reality with characters and relationships that the player invested in. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood attempts to flesh out that world with middling success, and loses a hell-of-a-lot of heart in the process.