Bethesda has announced the release of a free trial for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. This free trial will let gamers play through the entire first level of the game.
Naturally, and as with most free trials, those who choose to upgrade to the full version of the game will be able to keep all of their save data.
Those interested can download the game’s free trial from Steam.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is one of the most optimized PC games of 2017. Contrary to The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus uses the id Tech 6 Engine. The game only uses the Vulkan API and runs great on both NVIDIA’s and AMD’s hardware. Not only that, but this title is a showcase for AMD’s GPUs. As we wrote in our PC Performance Analysis article.
“Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is one of the most optimized PC games of 2017. MachineGames has offered an FPS that looks great and runs amazingly fast. Thanks to the Vulkan API, the game scales incredibly on more than four CPU threads, even though it does not require a high-end CPU for a constant 60fps experience. Furthermore, the game runs great on both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs (though AMD GPUs will have an edge on this particular title). It also offers an incredible amount of graphics settings to tweak.”
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That opening level is an absolutely awful demonstration of what the entire game has in store.
I don’t get why publishers are so stingy with demos: the point is to entice people to pay and stay. If you don’t give them enough to get hooked then why would they? And what do you lose by making the demo generously proportioned when the player wasn’t going to buy the game anyway?
Nihon Falcom understands this with its demos that can run anywhere from 6-12 hours long. Granted, they sell 80 hour RPGs, not 8 hour shooters. But would it kill Bethesda to give, I dunno, a section of game that’s 3 hours long? More demos should be timed to end just as things get going and the player is hooked.
I feel like the only reason we aren’t seeing conventional wisdom on this being challenged is based on assumptions of value, rather than actual data: but a game demo, no matter how generously proportioned, simply isn’t big enough if the consumer doesn’t open up their wallet and pay at the end of it (that, or the game isn’t good enough) and does no damage to the value of the full game that does exist.
Well said. The days of good demos are long gone and I don’t see that changing. Back in the late-90s and early 2000s, game developers worked hard on creating demos that would entice players into wanting more. That’s what made a demo good. Greediness is the main reason we don’t see many demos today.
I felt the same way with DOOM. That first level is really boring considering you only have a shotgun and face 2 enemy types. That game really doesn’t pick up till level 3 or 4.
I actually stopped playing because I couldn’t get into it in the first level, which just proves your point.
You should go back and play Doom. It is a very fun and beautiful game.
That’s the way it is with a lot of shooters. You start of easy and casual and progress to much more action later on. I haven’t played Doom 2016 yet but I would bet there are some Boss Fights that are challenging later in the game.
No that has to be the farm level which is not even a level, just one pointless cutscene.
209K copies sold so far, are you happy bethesda?
happy that you destroyed your own franchise?
along with dishonored, it seems like a trend
i don’t know how it was possible to ruin a concept as simple as shooting nazis but boy oh boy bethesda managed to f**k it beyond repair with “white boi” “lets shoot some white skin heads!” and other SJW nonsense
well i suppose they got what they wanted since no sane people bought their trash to the point when they offer a free demo and the price got reduced to about 22$ on graymarkets (since it isn’t selling)
herby a lesson to those disgusting lazy corperations, sacrificing quality production, good story writing, and innovating gameplay for social justice propaganda is not gonna sell your game
no matter how high the scores those VG journos give you, nobody cares/listens to what they say
gamers nowadays are becoming more and more aware of those Uber$hitty practices these companies do to satisfy the mainstream media, and thus games like Kingdom come deliverance will bring a fresh air of change to the gaming market
like the Witcher 2 did in 2011
I dont blame bethesda, but looking at the dlc, i think its blatantly obvious the developers dont want to do wolfenstein anymore….or put any effort on level design.
I liked how the last game did not focus on story yet it had a pretty damn good one. Now how on earth they got the idea that fans wanted more cutscenes and less gameplay and good level design. OH WAIT GAME JOURNALISTS…thats how, damn you polygon.
they’re just part of the problem the bigger problem is a braindead publisher trying to appease all the casuals with a handheld experince of a linear corridor shooter
you often hear the Phrase a “cinematic experince” it’s becoming a real cancer to AAA
i’m f**king glad Kingdom come deliverance will be slim on cutscenes and the game will not hold your hand
and you know why? no publisher, they’re self-publishing (though physical copies are being dispatched via deep silver, but they’re just logistics, they have no say in prices or de la croaix, that’s why the collector’s edition is 70€)
Publishers are the bane of gaming, always pandering, always appeasing
always trying new disgusting ways to squeeze more money
i’m glad i took a break from AAA, A hat in time was literally the only game in enjoyed this year, as for everything else, either bought for dirt cheap or pirated, 2018 will be a better year.
This video sums perfect the bullsh*** of this game
watch?v=jX2btj9xeZU
Gunplay is still amazing but damn what have they done to Blazkowicz? He is so pitiful. Would be better if they left him dead. Rather then having to hear him being so goddamn melancholic all the time because he is slowly dying.
Just blackowicz? They killed Caroline, destroyed the irish guy while the new kid is now a stoner and Anya somehow turned from a nurse to be most badass pregant woman which makes no sense. Gunplay is still great but the new assault rifle is meh, no marksman rifle with laser mode and the awfuls might as well be made in doom snapmap or fallout 4 generic dungeons, such awful level design…and the game is super short. Dissapointed machine games, really dissapointed.
Usually that happens to games with low sales.
Along with German Nazis maybe add some Imperial Japanese (you know the country and people that actually attacked the United States) to the target mix and next time and I’ll buy it.
So they decided to pick USA as a setting, ok, that means we will see some great things and epic set pieces right? NOPE you spend most of the game in underground bunkets sewers and mero stations.
For that reason i dont see the point setting the game somewhere else. It wont feel like it, they will just under utilize the setting.
Instead of that, how abut them monsters? Also a teslagun.
Honestly I was hoping for something like The Man in the High Castle.
Sjws you say? They bought the game apparently, completly ignoring that T r u m p’s brother is part of bethesda’s stock owners. So they gave money to T r u m p s family.
Man, i look at the dlc and its just generic corridors, as if they were made in snap map from doom 2016. They dont seem to put any effort in making the game good.
Yeah the shooting mechanics are good, but i can just play the last 2 games for that, everything else is inferior and the dlc seems to be overpriced rehash of the same good shooting mechanics and awful generic corridor level design.
So dissapointing…and cringe.
Cringestein the new dissapointment.
“The only reason we went to war with Nazi Germany is because Hitler declared war on the USA to uphold their alliance with Japan.”
Because Roosevelt didn’t want to build up the USA’s Military-Industrial Complex and the USA itself as world power by proving itself in combat against Europe?
Yeah, no. Japan was just an excuse, even if it took Britain asking for assistance, the US was always going to step in, ultimately.
America stepped in much earlier. Have you heard of the Lend-Lease Act?
Roosevelt wanted war with the Nazis because England and Europe were big trading parties with us at the time but Americans in general were sick and damned tired of your European wars. There was no guarantee that the USA would go to war with the Germans. Japan wasn’t an excuse for war. They attacked our Navy in a cowardly way to try to gain an edge in the Pacific. That’s all they wanted. To secure oil and mineral rights for their nation without interference.
Now we spend about 600 billion dollars annually to scare the sh*t out of the world with our military. 11 carrier fleets. And Trump wants to expand Defense Spending? Defense from who? Most of the world doesn’t give a rat’s *ss about us but we’re not in any danger of being attacked.
Right. Intervening in the First War created a long-standing atmosphere of “f*ck Europe” through the States, but once he got an excuse to attack the Japanese, he basically had a clear-cut excuse to also invade Europe, as they were allied.
“Most of the world doesn’t give a rat’s *ss about us but we’re not in any danger of being attacked.”
But…. but…. Must sustain Military-Industrial Complex!
SJW is killing everything.
Sweden making money on ww2 Germany again ? LOOK up who sold TO Germany the most guns, ammo and iron ore in ww2 please, Sweden and Swedes are such hypocrites. As a matter of fact Sweden wanted Germany to win the war against Soviet Union!