Activision Releases Wolfenstein "Motion Comic"

With the release of Wolfenstein rapidly approaching, Activision has released a Sin City-style "motion comic" detailing the early exploits of the American super-spy B.J. Blazkowicz.

The video is styled after a hand-drawn comic, with a black, white and red color scheme that's more than just a little reminiscent of Frank Miller's work. The video begins with Blazkowicz's capture at the hands of the Nazis, followed by his escape and eventual assassination of Mecha-Hitler, events made famous in the groundbreaking 1992 classic Wolfenstein 3D. But the video also talks about the Allied defeat of the Third Reich following Hitler's death, an event which as far as I can recall hasn't previously been alluded to in the series.

Fortunately for gamers who enjoy shooting Nazis, the collapse of the Third Reich was almost immediately followed by the rise of the Fourth Reich, which is using an analysis of Blazkowicz's original attack as its "defense protocol." Presumably our intrepid hero will have to overcome that protocol and save the world from the combined evils of Nazis and the supernatural by shooting a whole bunch of guys.

It's a safe bet that the Wolfenstein story will be a little thin and this video certainly doesn't shed any light on what we've got to look forward to. On the other hand, it is fun watching the events of the original game retold in a whole new style, including B.J.'s escape during dinnertime, even if it does lead one to wonder why it took 200 soldiers and a Tiger tank to capture him and yet they sent in one poor guy, all by himself, to deliver lunch.

Wolfenstein, in development at Raven for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, is scheduled for release on August 4.

Update: Here it is! (Warning - Mature Content!)

via: MTV Multiplayer

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If not for Scribblenauts, I'd be yelling "GOTY!" now. This only made me like 10 times more hyped than I already am!

That was KICK ASS.

There's nothing I have seen to do with this game that has made me even remotely interested in it. Still, that video wasn't too bad.

If there's no mecha-hitler yelling Die Allied Pig Dog (Die Allied Svein Humpht, I think is the correct spelling...I think)....then I'm not interested.

Mecha-Hitler is needed in this game. Well anyway, motion comic thing was cool.

THIS WAS AMAZING.

Wow.

Brilliant, very nice transitions too...

But yeah, like, Wolfenstein is awesome, and this new game might not be great, but it's still awesome!

I thought they used some great technology and made an interesting looking little film. Of course, I already saw the miracle of flash animation in Waltz with Bashir, but whatever. More use can't be bad. As a comic enthusiast, they needed to cut out all the goddamned aspect-to-aspect frames (trees, now gun, now foot, now dog, gun, swastika, gun). It sort of came off as too artsy for it's own good. There are certain things that don't translate well from comic to animation, and they chose to animate those things.

Looks pretty cool.

There's a new form of hype, good one though.

That was awesome! (And much better than the Star Wars: The Old Republic ones.)

Btw: S.S. Captain Hans Solo?

... Wow. That was really fucking well done.

Well enjoyed that :)

Definatly getting this game.

<<< Shameless Wolfenstein fanboy.

It had Robo Hitler. What more could you want?

Quad-gat Uberhitler? In my Wolfenstein?
It's more likely than you think.

Mediocre animation, crap narrative.