The upcoming role-playing game "Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus" is almost here, and its latest ad shows the simplicity at the heart of the game's exciting and multi-layered gameplay – punching Nazis in the face.
On its Twitter account, the game posted a very short video showing a Nazi soldier getting punched in the face from the point of view of the attacker, protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz.
The text in the video simply said, "If you are a Nazi, GTFO," while the video's description read, "There is only one side."
The ad brings up memories of a debatethat sparked last year when a known white supremacist was punched in the face while being interviewed on camera. While people reacted in many ways to that incident, the ad showed very clearly how "Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus" felt about Nazis.
The game is set in an alternate universe where Nazi Germany won the Second World War, and continued their offensive, eventually occupying the U.S. The player takes the role of Blazkowicz, a member of the militant Resistance trying to initiate a new American Revolution against the Nazi occupiers.
With today's political landscape and the rise of the so-called neo-Nazis, the theme of the game has become very relevant. According to "Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus" director Jens Matthies, the narrative of the game is "strangely topical."
"That was definitely not something we anticipated," Matthies told GameSpot. "We started writing the script in 2014 right after we released the first one. Somehow things have gotten strangely topical. Which of course is not something we anticipated or feel especially good about. That's the way it is, I guess."
The game is known to take a firm stand on what it is about, anti-Nazism. "Wolfenstein has been a decidedly anti-Nazi series since the first release more than 20 years ago," Bethesda's Public Relations and Marketing Vice President Pete Hines told GameIndustry.biz. "We aren't going to shy away from what the game is about."
