Major new game set at Nazi concentration camp is top seller

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“Wolfenstein: The New Order” is set in an alternate reality version of the 1960s in which the Nazis won World War II. You play as an Allied Special Forces operative named B.J. Blazkowicz, newly awakened from a lengthy coma, now ready to try overcome the Reich. To do so, there are many missions, one of which involves freeing a Jewish scientist from a concentration camp.

In a twelve minute video of how a typical gaming session may go (embedded below) you can see some of the individualized action as well as pre-determined cut scenes. Images of cattle cars, yanked infants, a Mengele-esque medical facility, bodies in crematoria and ash emerging from chimneys are part of the game’s play.

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Well, in the video I watched the character, as you are manipulating him, mutters under his breath things like “I’ve seen things like this at Auschwitz, I’ve seen things like this at Buchenwald,” which are the names of two major concentration camps.

Yep.

There’s a scene of getting out of the cattle car, and people are shoving and Nazis shouting in German and there’s an infant being grabbed by a Nazi.

Yes, Frau Engel grabs it out of the….

Yeah, so… everybody just thought this was cool for a video game? There was never a “QA” moment where concerns were voiced that “maybe we’re pushing the line”?

Not in my experience.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/major-new-game-set-at-nazi-concentration-camp-is-top-seller/