Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a prequel to the critically acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein: The New Order. The adventure, which spans eight chapters and two interconnected stories…
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is an adventure developed by MachineGames, released 4 May 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 9.8 hrs to finish.
What Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is an adventure game developed by MachineGames and released in 2015. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on id Tech 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The year is 1946 and the Nazis are on the brink of winning World War II. In an effort to turn the tide in the allies’ favor, B.J. Blazkowicz must embark on an epic, two-part mission deep within Bavaria. Part one of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - Rudi Jäger and the Den of Wolves - pits BJ Blazkowicz against a maniacal prison warden as he breaks into Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to steal the coordinates to General Deathshead’s compound. In part two – The Dark Secrets of Helga Von Schabbs – our hero's search for the coordinates leads him to the city of Wulfburg where an obsessed Nazi archaeologist is exhuming mysterious artifacts that threaten to unleash a dark and ancient power.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Wolfenstein series
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is the 31st of 38 entries we hold in the Wolfenstein series. It arrived 11 months after Wolfenstein: The New Order. The next entry was Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017. Its critic score of 76 is 5 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus at 87.
How it was received
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 448 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 17.8 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.99, that works out to about $0.51 per hour of the main story, or $0.28 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5-2500 @ 3.3 GHz / AMD FX-8320 @ 3.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 / AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 (1GB VRAM). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 38GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at GOG, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood launched on 4 May 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Mortal Kombat X, Kerbal Space Program and Crypt of the NecroDancer. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Mortal Kombat X, Kerbal Space Program, Crypt of the NecroDancer.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Wolfenstein: The Old Blood yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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