 So at E3 2018 I got to play Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus on switch in handheld mode They did not have a docked mode available to play or I probably would have checked that out as well for those Who don't know I am a huge fan of the first game in the series now when I say first I'm talking about the rebooted version of Wolfenstein because Wolfenstein is actually a very old IP that goes back many many years that I remember my dad playing on old-school PCs way back in the 90s However, Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus is actually a sequel to Wolfenstein a new order and I played the first game on PC and beat the main campaign I don't really remember a whole lot about the main campaign Not because the story was bad just because it was a while ago and I played a lot of games since But I remember the gameplay and the gameplay was utterly fantastic. It was extremely fluid I played at 60 FPS on PC and That is something that's a bit of an adjustment when I played it on switch because it's obviously not 60 FPS Just like doom before it that panic button also ported over because panic button is handling the port of Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus. It does not run at 60 FPS Nor do I expect it to on hardware like the switch not without the resolution dropping to something that I would deem Unusable. I mean I know there there's been talks about how Paladins in portable mode drops down to like, you know 360p and stuff like that like, you know, one of the lowest resolutions on YouTube, but It needs to be even worse than that to hit 60 FPS and Wolfenstein It would have to be like 160 120 and that's just that's unplayable Like there are sacrifices to be made for FPS and then there's literally unplayable because you're just looking at a blob on screen And that's what would have to happen for these games to be at 60 So I'm fine with Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus on switch not being at 60 It was a little bit of an adjustment from what I'm used to because it's the first time I played it on switch But that's okay I got to say that the the area we got the plan wasn't enclosed area. So we were not outdoors it was a rather large room and Some sort of factory which was really neat And there was a lot of different facets and a couple puzzle elements because it didn't hold your hand Right you you're kind of dropped into the beginning of entering this room and there's enemies everywhere. There's cover There's different things to do. There's key cards you have to find which is a classic thing for Wolfenstein and like doom back in the day and stuff like that so Very much into that and there's a little bit of storytelling I don't remember much of the story because I was kind of holding the switch away from me So Eric could get really good footage the footage. You're seeing now is what he was able to get Obviously off-camera off-screen of portable mode. I don't know if there's even a way to capture Portable mode at all unless it's off-screen. I don't even think digital fondries figure that out But I will say this as someone who played a lot of doom last year Relatively a lot of doom and then played Wolfenstein this year on switch It is smoother than I remember doom being I went back and I tried out doom again Just yesterday just to reconfirm my thoughts after rewatching this footage of Wolfenstein and sure enough I find Wolfenstein to the new classes actually smoother is that because there's less particle effects. I don't know Maybe panic button just got better at porting the ID tech 6 engine after having an experience with doom Whatever the case is I felt it was smoother. I felt there were less dips now It doesn't mean there weren't dips because it's not a locked 30 FPS but the dips I experienced were usually in the middle of Melee animations and those are canned anyways So the FPS doesn't really matter as much during melee animations because there's some pretty gruesome melee kills Just like there is in doom actually a lot of similarities between these games in terms of play style Obviously one's about killing demons the other ones about one killing Nazis In a Nazi a Nazi occupied United States This is basically an alternate reality where the Nazis ended up winning World War two Hitler was not killed Or did not commit suicide or whatever the case may be as I don't think we would a hundred percent Know how he died just that he did but yeah, it's very interesting looking back at this revisionist history style game and dealing with the worst possible outcome from that that moment in history and The high technology You get to see some of the tech in action with some certain enemies that were like robots It was it was pretty insane most of the characters I unit of fighting were fellow humans that were just decked out and you Know new new age body armor and stuff like that But it was it was very very fun It was very fluid way more fluid than I even remember doom being last year And that's kind of my takeaway from Wolfstein 2 is that it is just a more well polished port to switch and That's saying something considering that by now after some patches and stuff doom is pretty smooth And yet I still found Wolfstein 2 the new classes even smoother now There's always going to be a bit of a letdown with this game, you know coming out in just a week because It was announced before the game released anywhere else last year, right? So some people Wanted this game to be day-in-date and can I blame them for wanting a day-in-day game Well, we need day-in-date treatment as switch owners And it does feel weird because right now there is currently no big Bethesda game announces coming to switch Follow-up 76 as far as we aware is not coming to switch rage to as far as we're aware Is not coming to switch and we're not even sure the next doom or Wolfenstein young blood are coming to switch either now There is a rumor of a panic button announcement coming in July. That's a major IP I assume that's going to be the next doom game, but again assumptions to setting that aside I'm picking up Wolfenstein 2 the new classes I wasn't sure if I was going to because of how late the port was coming But after playing in a D3 I've been putting off playing and other devices to decide if I was gonna get it on switch or get it on PC And I'm going for the switch version because I want to play it anywhere It worked in handheld mode so well that I don't know if I'm even gonna stream the game to you guys because I'm going to be Playing so much handheld mode But that's okay. I have Mario Tennis Aces and other games I can stream for you guys at this point But yeah, I'm actually going to be picking it up instead of getting crash insane trilogy even though the crash insane trilogy is cheaper Just because I don't know I'm I'm a little I'm not exactly happy with how with what it took to get crash insane trilogy on switch though The methodology of the one person who loves switch being able to convince, you know Activision and and visceral to bring it like it just not not really something I want to worry about but and yes I realize I just said visceral games. I realize that's not what it is My bad notes the studio sort of the v poor old visceral. I miss you guys. I miss you before I even knew you But that's kind of my takeaway I think on Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus is it runs very very well the story the little bit of story that had in the demo Was fantastic in handheld mode. I was not bothered at all Hey, here's someone's gonna ask someone's gonna want to know did it run at sub HD probably cuz doom runs at sub HD Sometimes did I notice while I was playing? No, and that's kind of the big thing People forget when they hear about these sub HD things like what happened with Paladins is on that tiny of a screen It is so hard to tell at times Because the pixel density is smaller right when you shrink down a screen the less and less you actually notice if it's 720p If it's 1080p, etc So in the case of switch max it can be a 720 and it can be running at 640 or 580 and I guarantee You personally are not going to be able to even tell when that's happening Especially in motion with motion blur and everything else going on The game's just fantastic I have zero complaints if you were on the fence of a wolf inside you because of how how it performed on the platform All I could say is at least in this enclosed massive room with I think I killed over Over 18 different enemies that were present in this room and they were all there from the beginning I gotta say go pick it up, man If you've been waiting for it get it because the switch version is Fantastic and we need to keep showing companies like Bethesda that we want their latest and greatest games that we want Rage 2 that we want beyond good and evil 2 that we want Fallout 76 or any sort of fallout game that isn't just follow up shelter These are the kind of games when they're these this high quality of a port we need the support. Alright folks That's all I got to say. I will catch you guys in the next one