It Looks Like Wolfenstein 3 Is Putting Nazis Where They Belong: Jail

Xbox’s recent 25th anniversary-celebrating Fanfest finally made the long-rumoured Wolfenstein 3 official. MachineGames is developing the third part of its planned FPS trilogy, and I couldn’t be more excited. I replayed 2017’s The New Colossus at the start of the year, and its gory, executing-Nazis-in-front-of-a-live-television-audience finale was a good reminder of why MachineGames is one of the best in the business, and why so many shooter fans have held out hope for a third game over the past near-decade.

The announcement stopped short of almost anything beyond confirmation of Wolfenstein 3’s existence. No subtitle, no logo, no plot outline, and certainly no trailer. But Xbox CEO Asha Sharma did post an image showing off just the upper left corner of the script’s first page – barely six lines of notes and dialogue. But it’s enough to suggest that Wolfenstein 3 is working with a very fun concept: a jail for Nazis.

No Escape from Castle Nazitraz

Chapter one is titled “Nazitraz”, a spin on Alcatraz, the famous prison facility off the coast of San Francisco. At the end of The New Colossus, B.J. and his allies trigger a revolution in Nazi-occupied America, and by the end of the credits it’s