Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus — killing the baddest Nazis with the biggest guns

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 27, 2017
Updated June 20, 2025
3 min

Bethesda’s Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a shooter that everyone will like when it debuts on October 27. It has a strong and funny story. It has some difficult foes who are heavily armed and armored. But you can steal their heavy weapons and use them to kill the Nazis.

I played another big chunk of The New Colossus recently at a Bethesda preview event. And of course it has both great action and some outstanding cut scenes as the hero B.J. Blazkowicz fights his way into New Orleans in Nazi-controlled America. (See our earlier interview with the creative director here).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.