Historical context Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Wolfenstein is one of my favorite shooters. The New Order I passed five times and even twitched on it with material about injuries that Bi Jay received. In the plot of the game, historicity is weak, because events in the world are developing according to an alternative scenario. Nevertheless, in the narrative there are enough references to real personalities and events, which are discussed only in passing. For the lack of any information about them, the context of an unfolding action can pass literally through your fingers, and you will not feel the depth of the idea that the authors laid in your project. For Sim, we, in fact, gathered here to briefly affect the main points and tell in a digestible form about them so that the game, as a work of art, looked more fully. And today we will talk specifically about one person who, according to mythology, Wolfenstein was engaged in the occult sciences and created an ancient evil. King Otton is the first – the first ruler of the ”Holy Roman Empire” and the founder of the ”First Reich”. But first about the game itself.

Events unfold just the day before The New Order. Blaskovich needs to make Return to Castle Wolfenstein and steal a folder with the location of the general skull base at Helga von Shabbs. This Madmazel is the leader of the SS paranormal division and excavations under the village of Wulfsburg in order to find the ancient technologies of the aforementioned king.

Gameplay is all the same “vulfach” with all the ensuing, although this time with a great emphasis on stealth. In addition to corridor levels, as in the first part, they give small arenas, on which there are a couple of officers and a dozen soldiers of different calibers. Here they directly have a piercing to eliminate opponents quietly, sometimes taking away the weapon, and when raising anxiety, throwing you with crowds of meat, which is still exciting to shoot with two hands.

All weapons were shown in the previous part with the exception of the explosive pistol and his majesty of the pipe. With this simple, but effective tool, you can kill the Nazi, chained in a huge armor and reduce the climber in certain locations. As they say, the thing ”in”. It looks especially spectacular as a means for silent elimination, when Blaskovitz hits her with all the dope on her legs, the enemy falls with a cry and only after he subsides, and literally a meter from you is his friend and does not hear anything.

With such a set, we come nongamstopsites.uk to another “Game Changer” compared to the original. Zombies are fun, I like these brainwalks in all hypostases. Even the ”Operation Dead Snow” has a kind of charm. And here you are invited to resist crowds of zombies-Nazis. What could be even cooler? It is interesting that, according to the idea, who turned into undead and the living fights with each other, regardless of you, and this can be found tactical application, but in the fever of the battle you simply do not pay attention to all this. All this makes sense only on very high difficulties, but on them this game becomes completely different and such metamorphoses are not for me. Owe to the appearance of chambers, as they are called here, we are just our character today, to which we gradually and go.

Otton is the first great – the Duke of Saxony, the king of Germany and Italy, who lived in 912 – 973 of our era. After the death of his papan, Heinrich Ptitzelov on the throne at the age of 24, Otton himself ascended. Throughout the existence of the francs and the Saxons between their nobility there was an irresistible envy that they could not eat. Since the king was from the Saxons, they behind the noses and refused to serve their Frankish lords, while being their vassals. Without enduring such disrespect, a number of decisions were adopted, which led to the burning of the city of one of the same upstarts.

Since such a lawlessness occurred without the knowledge of the ruler, the initiator in the person of the Duke of Eberhard pulled 100 pounds of silver, and the arsonists had to bring the dog in their hands to the king’s residence in Madermburg. These were the jokes then, but for Eberhard it was so humiliating that he raised the uprising, united with Otto’s brother Tankmar, who was declared illegitimate and, as a result of which, deprived of the right of inheritance. An unbearable resentment wrapped him, and he went against his brother, simultaneously capturing the other brother of the king, Henry. Eberhard, apparently putting all the skills of skills into conviction, was able to persuade him, crushing him that they say, when Otton was born, his father was only a duke, and you are when the king.

The following was followed by a series of battles, intrigues, substituting and other methods of business methods that are familiar to the Middle Ages, the description of which would take a lot of time. As a result, with one of the brothers Henry, he nevertheless made peace despite the fact that he sent the killers to him, and even handed him to the Bavarian Duchy of the Bava Duchy. All the conspirators were defeated, he took the Frankish lands under his own department, the duchy of Lotarinsky was transferred to the nobleman, for whom he later gave his daughter. As a result, it turned out that his relatives stood at managing posts and all Germanic tribes were united. True, then his son rebelled with his son -in -law, but this uprising was suppressed. So on relatives to rely in those days so so.

By the way, about relatives. Helga von Shabbs according to the Black of the Game is a hereditary successor to Wolfenstein and is depicted as a descendant of the very outflow. Similarly, in the original Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Henry Himler was depicted as a successor and owner of a castle, who created a paranormal division, the leader of which became Helga. Something like this, but back to history.

The king had two campaigns in Italy with varying success, as a result of which he acquired a new wife, but was forced to return to Germany, just because of the rebellious son. We are interested in the second trip, which called him, then sitting on the papal throne, John XII, oppressed by the king of Italy Berengar. Otton gathered an army and as soon as the pasta and pizza entered the Earth, the resistance simply scattered, and he freely reached Rome. There, on the second of February, 962, in the Church of St. Peter, he was awarded the imperial crown, which laid the foundation for the formation of the ”Holy Roman Empire”, which the Germans in the 19th century numbered the ”first Reich”.

I like the most when the ENT game intersects with history and tries to explain the events in his own context. In our project today, too, it was not without it. The crowning Otto Pope John XII was dissatisfied with his growing power and even made attempts to conspire with his old enemies. But the emperor called the Cathedral for the trial of Joan and shifted it, replacing it with the new pope of Leo VIII. In The Old Blood, the dissatisfaction of the papacy by the new ruler is due to his occult experiments, because they contradict the whole divine and come from the evil. That is why Otton abandoned these research and walled up his inventions away from human eyes, who still reached them in Bi Gi Jay.

Here is such a character stood behind the founding of the first Reich and the misadventures of Blaskovich, well, but we have to go round. If you do not agree with anything or want to point out an error in information, I ask for mercy in a comment, it will be interesting to get acquainted with new information. Also write what other games would you like to see in this section.

Thank you for your attention and remember – ”It is better to fight on virtual, not real battlefields”. For now.