Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Jens Matthies, Tommy Tordsson Björk, and MachineGames' fiercely political, narratively audacious, and blisteringly cathartic alternate-history first-person shooter masterpiece across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch (Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus + *The Freedom Chronicles*), released in October 2017 by Bethesda Softworks on id Tech 6, winning Best Action Game at The Game Awards (TGA 2017) while earning a 9.1/10 from IGN, 9.0/10 from GameSpot, and 87/100 on Metacritic and selling over 2 million copies, standing as one of the finest, most unapologetic single-player shooter narratives in modern gaming history, set in an alternate 1961 where the Nazi regime conquered America, following unbroken Jewish-American resistance hero William 'B.J.' Blazkowicz (Brian Bloom / *Terror-Billy*), recovering from catastrophic physical injuries inside the hijacked nuclear U-boat *Eva's Hammer*, uniting the fragmented American resistance (Grace Walker's Black Panthers in Manhattan, Horton Boone's communist partisans in New Orleans) to ignite the Second American Revolution, single-handedly pioneering the legendary "Independent Dual-Wielding Carnage, Da'at Yichud Supersoldier Body & Contraption Mobility" engine (dual-wielding automatic shotguns and heavy laser cannons simultaneously, charging through concrete walls with Ram Shackles, stomping on mechanical stilts, surviving public decapitation on the Lincoln Memorial to receive a synthetic supersoldier body), infiltrating the secret Nazi base on the planet Venus in disguise as an actor auditioning for Adolf Hitler, and Mick Gordon (*DOOM*) and Martin Stig Andersen's (*Inside*) immortal, industrial-metal, distorted analog synthesizer, and screeching guitar soundtrack (*"Nazi Punks, GTFO"*, *"The New Colossus"*).