Unlike TNO‘s chilling techno-industrial style, TOB is styled more as a B-grade “Nazi-sploitation” film, right down to the logo’s appearance as a 1950s horror film poster. The Old Blood is essentially a stand-alone expansion pack you do not need to own or have played The New Order to run it. So while the mission always remains focused on getting that folder, there are other things that tend to get in the way and need dealt with, such as Rudi Jäger, the captain of the guards, who is very attached to his Kampfhünds and won’t hesitate to sic them on you. Of course, like any infiltration in the series, it doesn’t end well for either agent, and both are captured. There, the two agents are to locate and liquidate Helga von Schabbs, the head of a special division of the SS, and obtain a top secret folder that contains the location of Deathshead’s compound (or in other words, the first level of The New Order). It is early 1946, and Blazkowicz, still acting under the orders of the Office of Secret Actions, accompanies “Agent One” on an infiltration mission to Castle Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood takes place immediately before The New Order‘s prologue chapter. Rather than trying to pick up the pieces, they instead opted to make a prequel. With the way The New Order ended, it’s hard to see where MachineGames could have found room to make a sequel, so they didn’t.
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