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Thoroughly enjoyed Wolfenstein: The New Order. Looks like the only other single-player FPS games in the series left for me are Wolfenstein (2009) and The New Colossus. 2009 isn't electronically available, so I'll either have to wait for it, or find it on ebay. And Colossus is too fricken expensive right now. I'm patient, it'll come down eventually.
The 2009 game is my favourite Wolfenstein game of all time. It lacks the really good graphics/presentation/movie-ish-ness of the newer three games (New Order, Old Blood, New Colossus), and is a more conventional first person shooter, but I think it's much more enjoyable than the other games. Well, aside from the last level of the 2009 game, which, like Half-Life itself, when you get to the last level the enjoyment factor and immersion dropped like a ten ton weight off a cliff.
Regarding the new the games, I think Old Blood is my favourite, then New Order, then New Colossus. New Colossus' story, in my opinion, does a few things that are so staggeringly improbable that they ruin the story, and yes, that's taking into account the fact that we gamers will accept almost anything in a game's story. In a game where the Nazis won the war and are now THE world power, where they have killer robots, robot dogs, a base on the Moon, etc, the story still does a few things that kill off the believability factor.
More importantly, New Colossus is just not as enjoyable to play as the other two games, and it has a couple of bad difficulty spikes. Another flaw with the game is that although it optionally lets you use stealth in some parts of the game, the stealth mechanics aren't great so you usually fail and have to resort to gunplay, which (depending on your point of view) can be galling, as successfully using stealth not only avoids gunplay, but also can be rewarded by you having less enemies entering the are for you to shoot or avoid.
New Colossus' story also ends far too abruptly, if you ask me. Some people criticise the game for what they see as unnecessary preaching and it being soaked in politically correct views, but I (who detests the stupidity of the extremes of political correctness) don't see it at all. I think the times when the game shows the prejudice of both the Nazis and non-Nazis (during the real World War II, there were people all over the world who shared the prejudices that formed the foundations of the Nazi movement, and tragically that's true even today) are well done and add to the game's atmosphere.