Wolfenstein: Young Blood: PS4 Review

Wolfenstein: Young Blood: PS4 Review

Released by Bethesda
Developed by Machine Games, Arkane Studios
Platform: PS4

This Wolfenstein spin off is a co-op shooter that works best with your friends, not as well with the AI.

Assuming the role of either Jess or Soph Blazkowicz, the twin daughters of BJ Blazkowicz, it's up to you to do what the family's done for years - killing Nazis. When their father mysteriously disappears, the girls throw on power suits and start to try and track him down in Neu Paris, where he was last seen.

Wolfenstein Youngblood goes someway to keeping the hedonistic blasting of bad guys in tact, but most of the game relies on the second person to help you out to progress.

Which is fine for when a mate's playing along with you, but is occasionally more problematic when it comes to the computer side of things helping you out. It's perhaps pertinent the game is more committed to the gameplay rather than offering up new and surprising twists on the patented Wolfenstein formula.

That's not to say it's not playable - quite the opposite in fact.

The game's committed to its lunacy, but at its heart, Wolfenstein Youngblood is still just a simple run and gun game from the first person perspective. Stealth is a weaker element this time around, but in fairness, it's still playable enough.

It seems a crime to label Wolfenstein: Youngblood as fine, but that's all it really is. A simple levelling up system, a game whose core MO hasn't changed, and a plot that's not as outrageous as it should or could be with two protagonists who make the journey bearable (aside from annoying dance moves in lifts), Wolfenstein Youngblood is a solid spinoff, but an inessential one.