Wolfenstein: The New Order E3 trailer offers some chilling 'what-ifs'

by Matt Liebl, GameZone, Posted Jun 6th 2013 11:45AM

It seems the cool thing to do right now is to release your E3 trailer before E3 2013 actually begins. The latest comes from Bethesda, who today revealed the Wolfenstein: The New Order E3 trailer. And boy am I glad they did -- this thing is freaking awesome.

The first portion of the trailer is dedicated to showing life under Nazi rule. In an alternate timeline -- one in which the Nazis won World War II and took over the world -- the most iconic scenes of the past have been reshaped around the Nazi regime. And it is chilling.

The last forty seconds or so, however, is dedicated to showing off some action-packed gameplay featuring B.J. Blazkowicz standing up to the Nazi war machine. Last week, we went hands-on with Wolfenstein: The New Order; you can read our initial imperssions here. Also, be sure to tune in to GameZone next week for our exclusive E3 2013 coverage.

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Order & Chaos Duels (iOS/Android) review

Order & Chaos Duels is a new iOS and Android game from Gameloft. It’s available now as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, and carries additional in-app purchases.

Order & Chaos Duels is the third entry in Gameloft’s Order & Chaos series, which has to date included a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game known as Order & Chaos Online and a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game known as Heroes of Order & Chaos. The Order & Chaos series bears a strong resemblance to Blizzard’s popular Warcraft series in terms of both art style and gameplay, and Order & Chaos Duels continues this trend. While Order & Chaos Online resembles World of Warcraft and Heroes of Order & Chaos is heavily inspired by the popular Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients (and its immensely popular recent counterparts Dota 2 and League of Legends), Order & Chaos Duels sounds very much like Blizzard’s recently-announced Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Gameloft is well-known for putting out mobile titles that provide similar experiences to well-established franchises on PC and console, but in the case of Order & Chaos Duels, it has actually beaten Blizzard to the punch by getting its game onto the market first.

Order & Chaos Duels is a card battle game, but it doesn’t follow the usual barely-interactive mold set by popular mobile games such as Rage of Bahamut and Confrontation. Instead, its gameplay is more akin to titles such as Shadow Era from Wulven Game Studios — a game which proved popular enough on mobile to spawn a physical version.

In an individual Order & Chaos Duels battle, two players face off against each other and draw cards into their hand. Each card has a mana cost to play — if the player doesn’t have enough mana to play a card, they can’t play one, but conversely if they have enough mana they may play more than one. A single card per turn may be sacrificed to add a single point to the user’s maximum mana, which replenishes fully at the start of the next turn. Some of the player characters also have special abilities that allow them to temporarily gain additional mana.

Once the player has played any cards they wish to their respective area — minions to the battlefield, equipment to the hero and spells straight to the discard pile since they are immediately resolved — the “battle” phase begins. Any minions the player has on the battlefield will attack their opponent’s minions in the corresponding spaces and activate any special abilities they have. If the opponent does not have a minion in a particular space and the player does (or vice versa), the defending player will take damage.

These basic mechanics are almost identical to those seen in Confrontation, but the key difference is that battles do not unfold automatically, and players have a large degree of choice in terms of what strategy they would like to adopt. Special abilities, spells and equipment can be triggered at a strategically-advantageous time rather than automatically, and minions can be placed wherever the player likes within the confines of the battlefield. A number of card abilities mean that positioning cards is important, as they affect adjacent cards as well as the target, and the order that cards are played can be very important, too. The game’s basic mechanics are very simple to understand, but belie a considerable amount of tactical depth which makes Order & Chaos Duels a pleasure to play.

The player may collect new cards to add to their deck in several ways. First of all, the single-player campaign mode allows the player to earn various cards as rewards for progressing past a series of increasingly-difficult battles. Secondly, the game’s “Get Cards” menu allows players to acquire free cards once per day (and in exchange for soft currency after that) — rarer cards may also be acquired by expending hard currency. In-app purchases are probably not necessary to complete the single-player campaign as the difficulty appears to be paced quite well, but a common complaint about the game’s multiplayer component is that the considerably stronger rare cards acquired through spending real money are pretty much a guaranteed ticket to victory. This means the game has the potential to get quite expensive for dedicated online players, but for the most part the game doesn’t feel like it’s forcing more casual players to open their wallets.

Social features for the game include the ability to battle other players to pillage their treasures or compete in ranked matches, the ability to set up custom matches with friends (or random strangers, for that matter) and connectivity with both Facebook and Gameloft’s proprietary Gameloft Live service. The interface also promises an “Epic Bosses” component, but this is not yet implemented. The game regularly offers players the opportunity to share their achievements and victories via social media, but this is not done obtrusively and is a feature easily ignored for those who do not wish to bother their friends.

Order & Chaos Duels is a great example of how the social card battle genre can and should evolve. While its basic mechanics are not particularly original — the game as a whole is very similar to the aforementioned Shadow Era, which has been around for quite a long time now — it’s a solid game that looks great, sounds great and plays well. Given the popularity of the other Order & Chaos games on mobile, this looks set to be another strong performer for Gameloft.

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Accessible, strategic and, crucially, interactive; Order & Chaos Duels is an excellent example of how to make a good, playable and fun free-to-play card battle game.

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ChefVille 'Garden of Eatin' Catering Order: Everything you need to know

After the difficult series of Catering Orders in ChefVille's Hollywood event, it's time to move on to something that's hopefully a bit more refreshing. A series of six new "Spring" Catering Orders has started rolling out to our restaurants, with the first order being "Garden of Eatin'." We're here with a complete guide to this new order, so that you know exactly what you're getting into before hitting that "Start Now" button.

Garden of Eatin' Buy 15 PlantsServe 16 Steak FlorentineCook 25 Bruschetta or Chicken Cordon BleuServe 10 Broccoli and DipCook 8 Garden Salad
The Plants are as cheap as five coins or Reputation Hearts per plant, so you can have this task out of the way in no time. Meanwhile, the Steak Florentine is cooked on the Brick Oven using two Sirloin Beef, two Garlic, and two Salt. It takes just five minutes to prepare, so you can have this task done in around 30 minutes if you already have all of the required ingredients in bulk.

As for the Bruchetta task, you can choose to cook all 25 of a single dish, or combine them both, so long as you eventually reach that 25 point total. The Bruschetta is available to cook in the Brick Oven using one Wheat Bread and two Tomatoes, while the Chicken Cordon Bleu is available after you've upgraded the Party Platter Station to the Intermediate level. This upgrade requires 18 building materials to complete, with all of them being earned through a combination of general news posts on your wall and individual requests sent to your neighbors.For the Broccoli and Dip, this dish can be cooked over a period of two minutes inside the Salad Station. Each batch requires one Broccoli and one Ranch Dressing to prepare. Finally, the Garden Salads are also made inside the Salad Station, but each of these requires four Mixed Greens and two Ranch Dressing to prepare. While this dish takes 12 hours to cook, you only need to actually cook the dish to earn progress points in this order. That is, you don't need to serve the dish, so you can immediately start it cooking and then cancel it only to complete the process seven more times without actually waiting.

You'll be able to bring up to five of your friends in on this order with you, and you'll have three days to finish the order for a Gold rating. This gives you a lovely White Gate decoration for your restaurant, along with four 1 Hour Thymes and three Instant Thymes. If you can't complete the order within three days, you'll have up to a total of seven to earn Silver or Bronze prize packages. Good luck!

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Cafe World Science Fair Catering Order: Everything you need to know

A new catering order has launched in Cafe World, offering some young scientists a chance to show off in your cafe. You'll need to cater the Science Fair, rewarding these young geniuses on their hard work, but the ultimately reward here is only a decoration. If you're into receiving free dishes from catering orders, feel free to skip this one entirely in favor of completing goals or anything on your plate.

If you decide to tackle this, you'll need to serve Seafood Paella (a 14-hour dish) 700 times, Gem Cake (a 12-hour dish) 600 times and Stuffed Portabellas (a six-hour dish) 500 times. You'll be able to bring 13 friends in on this order with you to help you finish the cooking tasks, but these are definitely some huge numbers to finish in just three days (for the major prize).

In addition to these cooking tasks, you'll also need to collect 10 Beakers, 10 Bunsen Burners and 10 Periodic Tables from friends.

If you can finish all six of these tasks within the first three days of starting, you'll earn the three-star rating, 15 Catering Points, 7,500 Cafe Points, 200,000 coins and the Bubbling Volcano. If you can't finish within the first three days, but still finish within five days, you'll earn two-stars, 10 Catering Points, 5,000 Cafe Points and 125,000 coins. Finally, for finishing at any point after the first five days of starting, you'll receive just a single star, 5 Catering Points, 3,000 Cafe Points and 75,000 coins.

Again, you won't receive a free recipe for completing this order, so feel free to put it on the back burner (pun intended) until you're really ready to tackle it if you don't feel like doing so right now. Good luck!

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Cafe World Holiday Tree Lighting Catering Order: Everything you need to know

The second Winterfest catering order has launched in Cafe World, chefs, giving you a chance to earn a new recipe for completing this winter / Christmas-themed order with a three-star rating. Of course, as tends to be the case with such things, that's actually easier said than done.

For the cooking tasks, you'll need to serve Holiday Stollen (an eight-hour dish) 400 times, Holiday Cheese Ball (a three-hour dish) 500 times and Pumpkin Pie (a 12-hour dish) 500 times. If the first two dishes don't look familiar to you, it's because they're earned by completing goals in this limited edition Winterfest event. If you haven't completed enough goals to unlock one or both of them, you can bring up to 12 of your friends in on this order to help you out.

While you're waiting for dishes to cook, you'll need to also collect 21 different Christmas-themed items with the help of friends. You'll need to ask friends for seven Ornaments, seven Tree Lights and seven Tinsel. All three of these items are earned by asking your friends to send them to you via individual gift requests (or by simply purchasing them with Cafe Cash).

If you can finish all of these tasks within the first three days of starting, you'll receive the three-star rating, 15 Catering Points, 7,500 Cafe Points, 200,000 coins and the Roast Holiday Goose recipe. To be especially clear, you must finish with three stars to receive the free recipe, so if you pass the first three days and want the Roast Holiday Goose dish, you'll need to cancel your progress and start all over. If you decide, however, to simply push onto the finish and can do so within five days, you'll receive two-stars, 10 Catering Points, 5,000 Cafe Points and 125,000 coins. Finally, finishing at any point after the first five days earns you the one-star rating, 5 Catering Points, 3,000 Cafe Points and 75,000 coins.

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Cafe World Soap Box Supper Catering Order: Everything you need to know

Here's an interesting one: a new Catering Order has launched in Cafe World asking you to help feed a group of racers after their Soap Box Derby race. You'll be there at the finish line waiting, and if you can help these racers out in time, you'll walk away with a free recipe for your efforts.

This particular catering order requires you to serve Tony's Classic Pizza (a five-hour dish) 100 Times, Basil Finger Sandwiches (a six-hour dish) 35 Times, Clubhouse Sandwiches (an 18 hour dish) 20 times and Bacon Cheeseburgers (a five-minute dish) 300 times. Luckily, the Bacon Cheeseburger happens to be the shortest cooking dish and is the one required in the highest quantity. This means that you'll be able to push out dozens of servings in a single sitting in the game, and when you bring up to 14 of your friends in on this order with you, the progress becomes even quicker.

In addition to these cooking tasks, you'll also need to collect 12 Axles and 12 Racing Flags to go along with the Soap Box Derby theme. Both of these sets of items are earned through individual gift requests sent to your friends.

If you can finish all six tasks within the first three days of starting, you'll earn the three-star rating, 15 Catering Points, 7,500 Cafe Points, 200,000 coins and a Fried Chicken Sandwich recipe. Unfortunately, you must complete this order with the three star rating in order to earn the recipe, so feel free to cancel the order and start over if you haven't finished it by that time. If you do decide to push on, however, and can finish before five full days have passed, you'll receive two stars, 10 Catering Points, 5,000 Cafe Points and 125,000 coins. Finally, finishing at any point after those first five days gives you a single star, 5 Catering Points, 3,000 Cafe Points and 75,000 coins.

All in all, this Catering Order doesn't have a time limit in terms of when it must be started, so if you have more time-sensitive tasks to complete in your cafe first, feel free to complete those entirely before coming back and helping these racers.

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Cafe World Opening Night Catering Order: Everything you need to know

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A new play has come to the virtual theater in Cafe World, and it's up to you to cater the opening night festivities. It's fitting then that the game's newest catering order is called simply "Opening Night." In this order, you'll need to cook different dishes in bulk, along with collecting two different items related to the theater. You'll have five days to finish this order for the best prizes, but don't think that it'll be easy.

For the cooking tasks, you'll need to serve Smoked Salmon Latkes (a two-hour dish) 400 times, Lavish Lamb Curry (an eight-hour dish) 90 times, Veggie Lasagna (a 22-hour dish) 30 times and Delicious Chocolate Cake (a 14-hour dish) 24 times. To help you finish these tasks, you'll be able to bring up to 13 of your friends in on the order with you, and while the largest task (the Smoked Salmon Latkes) may be the quickest cooking dish of the order, remember that you can speed up your cooking and overall progress even more by using spices and extra servings that are sitting in your Gift Box.

In addition to these cooking tasks, you'll also need to collect 15 Comedy Masks and 15 Tragedy Masks by asking your friends to send them to you. Just remember to ask for them quickly, as you won't want to have all of your cooking tasks done but still need a few more masks to finish.

If you can complete all of these tasks within five days, you'll receive the three-star rating, 15 Catering Points, 7,500 Cafe Points, 200,000 coins and the Big ol' Cookie Cake recipe, which essentially looks like a pile of pancakes that just so happen to be cookies instead. If you can't finish in five days, but can before a full week has passed, you'll earn two stars, 10 Catering Points, 5,000 Cafe Points and 125,000 coins. Finally, for finishing at any point after the first week, you'll receive just a single star, 5 Catering Points, 3,000 Cafe Points and 75,000 coins. Whether or not you'll want to settle for a single star, after all of the work you've put in, will be up to you.

What do you think of the Opening Night Catering Order? Do you complete catering orders for the free recipes, or just for the ability to help your friends in a co-op setting? Sound off in the comments.


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Cafe World Grandma's Cook-Off Catering Order: Everything you need to know

While we've been covering Grandma's Lost Recipes for a while now in Cafe World, time has quickly been ticking away, and it's now time to help Grandma win her bridge cook-off in a new Catering Order. The order, coincidentally enough, is called "Grandma's Cook-Off," and it requires you to serve a whopping four dishes, along with collect two sets of collectible items, all to win another lost recipe at the end (that is, if you're fast enough).

The cooking tasks ask you to serve Collard Greens and Bacon 500 times, Grandma's Famous Meatloaf 30 times, Corn Flake Chicken 120 times, and Choco-Scotch Clusters 60 times. While some of these particular totals may not sound like a lot, when combined, you're looking at serving 710 dishes! Even if you had tons of spices, and tons of bonus servings just waiting to be served out of your Gift Box, that's still no easy feat, especially if you're on your own. You'll be able to bring 18 of your friends in on the catering order with you, thankfully enough, so with enough effort from some good friends, you may be able to finish these cooking tasks on time.

In addition to all of the cooking, you'll need to collect eight each of Sampler Forks and Sampler Dishes, which actually seems like an incredibly simple task, considering all of the cooking you'll need to do as well. Either way, if you're able to finish this goal within the first five days of starting it, you'll receive the three-star rating, 12 Catering Points, 3,200 Cafe Points, 70,000 coins and the exclusive Fruit and Jelly Mold. If you can't finish within five days, you'll have a chance at either the two or one star rating (the one start rating not having a time limit), but won't be able to walk away with the new recipe.

There's no word yet on whether or not this catering order is temporary, or if we'll have it available to finish permanently, so keep that in mind when deciding whether or not to put it off.

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