Jens Matthies: It’s not a commentary on current events, but it has to be political if you’re dealing with Nazis-at least if you’re doing it responsibly-which is our goal. But we are inspired by a lot of things generally.ĬGMagazine: What do you want people to take away from the game after they play it? Do you want it to be political or simply fun? Then it gets hard to pinpoint with any accuracy “I was inspired by this in this case, or I wasn’t inspired by this,” so I couldn’t really say. So what that means is that you internalize a lot of stuff over the years and then you have this work where your job is to create things on a daily basis and over time that just becomes second nature to how you function.
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I’m at the point now where I’ve essentially seen every movie I want to see so I’m just waiting and every year there’s like seven new movies coming out that I really want to see and 20 more that I’m interested in and I’m just waiting for those to be released. We’ve been doing games for so long now and of course, a person like me for example, a tremendous movie buff. Jens Matthies: It’s hard to answer that because I don’t think it’s anything specific. What kind of material did you guys use for research? There are some more unorthodox locations as well but still very US-centric.ĬGMagazine: I love alternate history fiction. The majority of the game is on US soil and some of those are landmark places but some of them, like Roswell, are just trying to get that mainstream Americana late 50s early 60s kind of thing. Jens Matthies: Yes, but of course the game is centred around the US. Executing that is incredibly tricky but that’s also the kind of creative challenge we like tackling.ĬGMagazine: As far as settings go, were you guys just going crazy with ideas? We think that’s the way to go, that’s the kind of tone a Wolfenstein game should have. It’s something we’ve been trying and it’s very, very appropriate for Wolfenstein, it has these very serious themes but it’s also totally crazy and over the top and very creatively unrestricted, especially the original. We love that kind of…a big source of inspiration for me growing up was the original Robocop, which is also doing that tightrope walk of something that is very serious in many ways but also totally over the top and crazy and I love that kind of fiction, that marriage of those two things. Jens Matthies: That’s a challenge right, but that’s the kind of challenge that we really love. I think a lot of what Grace is, comes down to Wilson’s performance and I don’t really know what her influences are.ĬGMagazine: There are some really fun and goofy moments in the game but it also gets really serious out of nowhere. For us, we had some clear ideas about what the character was as we wrote it but of course, as we cast it we found this amazing actor, Deborah Wilson, and she really pushed it over the top. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – gameplay image via Machinegames and Bethesda SoftworksĬGMagazine: The character Grace, a lot of Pam Grier influence going on? We picked his brain about what it means to resurrect an old IP and keep it fresh, and how the strangely topical theme of Nazis in America relates to the current political situation in our real world. CGMagazine was lucky enough to grab a chat with the game’s director, Jens Matthies, at QuakeCon this year. This October sees the release of a sequel in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Machinegames has promised more over the top Nazi blasting action and a whacky but serious cast of characters engaged in a plot to ignite the revolution and fight back against the now Global Nazi war machine.
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Wolfenstein: The New Order, developed by Machinegames and published by Bethesda, brought the series to the forefront once again and received both critical and player acclaim for being a fantastic re-imagining that stayed true to the themes and gameplay of the originals. Blascowicz and guided him through floor after floor of Nazi bullet-fodder. In Wolfenstein 3D players eagerly jumped into the boots of B.J. Wolfenstein is a franchise that dates way back to the very beginnings of the first-person shooter and the roots of modern video games as a whole.
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