Wolfenstein Ii: The New Colossus

Wolfenstein Ii: The New Colossus

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The empty wheelchair – a maligned horror cliché cameoed in everything from BioShock to Alien Isolation. You know the drill: creep into a room and a light flickers; a vacant chair sits lifeless; a bloodied hand mark on the floor, its owner having been dragged unceremoniously into the shadows.

Things are different in Wolfenstein II. There’s a wheelchair, but it’s not for incidental environmental flourish. Instead, MachineGames uses it to transform returning protagonist William ‘BJ’ Blazkowicz into a mobile weapon. Set five months after the first game,