Taking place in the 1980s, years after The New Order and The New Colossus, B.J. Blazkowicz has since gotten married and had two daughters, Jessica and Sophia, who he taught how to defend for themselves. Blazkowicz goes missing, Jessica, Sophia, and their friend Abby investigate his disappearance. They find a hidden room, where they discover that Blazkowicz travelled to France to help in forcing Nazis out of the county. The three girls then travel to France to find Blazkowicz. The graphics and sounds are almost identical to the graphics and sounds in The New Colossus, but they are still outstanding. Since this game is an FPS and RPG mixed game, it has a level system, and while it sounds good at first, it makes the game unfairly hard as some enemies are flat out impossible to beat, especially towards the beginning of the game where certain side quests takes you through an area populated with Nazis that drastically out-level you. Missions are level gated, and since earning levels is painfully slow, you're forced to do an excessive amount of grinding to get EXP. The gunplay is a lot clunkier than in previous MachineGames' Wolfenstein games, with enemies having different types of armor, resulting in players having to constantly switch to weapons that are strong against a certain type of armor. This quickly becomes frustrating. Even worse, the health bars that indicate the different armor type are extremely similar, which can result in a lot of confusion for new players. Unlike the previous installments, you can now only dual wield pistols and machine pistols. There are only two new weapons, the rest of the weapons are basically returning ones from The New Colossus with new names. All of these weapons have the same upgrades, which is increasing general damage, headshot damage and ammo capacity. Despite the clunkiness, the gunplay can be decent at times, as long as your level is on-par with the enemies. The game is co-op mode only, even if you want to strike out on your own, the AI still finds the need to join the fray. And since both of the twins are required to survive the battle, all you'll need is some classic artificial stupidity for your partner to waste all three of your shared lives to get a game over. Most actions that can be done with one person require both protagonists to do them, such as opening doors or using terminals. Overall, there is no actual single-player gameplay, in the game's "single-player mode", whatsoever. If you ever try to do a certain action on your own, the game will automatically pause to require you to connect another Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con or Xbox One controller, or PS4's DualShock 4 to do the certain action together, resulting in single player-bait. The companion and enemy AI is bad, enemies will sometimes ignore you even when you're crouching just in front of them. If you take cover behind something, the enemies will stop moving and will do absolutely nothing, even with the player shooting them. The companion will rarely revive you, even if you get shot down right in front of her. After about an hour or two, the game becomes repetitive thanks to the grinding. Many side missions take place in the same area as other side missions and have the same objectives, which results in a lot of backtracking. All of the bosses are the same, which also adds to the repetitiveness. Playing on higher difficulties doesn't give you better EXP, making them somewhat pointless to play on. Even if you die, the game at least has the courtesy to save your EXP and item progression. As with any game published by Bethesda, glitches are common. One of the most notable graphical glitches features a large black box appearing when certain enemies are killed. When playing with another player, the animations from the other player are glitchy. There are even no checkpoints in the game, if you fail the mission, then it's back to square one. As most recent Bethesda games have, it has microtransactions in a story-based game. The only use for these microtransactions is to get skins for your weapons, which is not worth spending money on at all. The description states that you can use them to get new equipment such as power armor, despite being only able to get weapon skins. This is a case of false advertising. The story is not only badly-written, but also very cringe-inducing. The fact that almost all of the well-written characters from the previous games are absent in favor of forgettable new characters isn't helping matters at all. Despite being the greater scope villain of the rebooted Wolfenstein games, Hitler is killed between this game and New Colossus without even a flashback to show it, dashing long-time fans' hopes of B.J fighting Hitler in a mecha. The main antagonist is very bland and forgettable, especially when compared to Irene Engel, the main antagonist of the previous game. The protagonists of the game, BJ's twin daughters, are extremely annoying and never stop giving out cringey one-liners, although this may have been intentional since they're supposed to be nerdy. Also, despite the game stating that the twins have different abilities, they're pretty much the same. While their voices are annoying, the other voice acting is good, with Brian Bloom thankfully reprising his role as B.J. However, since this is a spin-off game, B.J. Blazkowicz has been reduced to the role of an "important" minor character, by making him being trapped where the Da'at Yichud artifact resides, which is near the end of the game. His reason as to why he can't escape sounds like he simply doesn't want to leave, rather than implying that the Nazis are trapping him there. There's a bad plot twist in the third act, where the French Resistance is revealed to be the main group of antagonists all along. This plot twist is fairly obvious due to the writers doing a poor job at hiding the Resistance's true nature. The ending is extremely disappointing and is essentially sequel bait. Bethesda...come on. You can do better than that.
