id="cnetReview" section="rvwBody" data-component="indepthReview"> Decades and decades removed from their time on this planet, the perception of Nazis has taken on a supernatural persona, sharing the same classification of monsters with the likes of zombies and orcs.

The most popular fantasizing of their existence in a videogame has to be 1992's Wolfenstein 3D, a first-person-shooter that wound up being a breakout hit for the shooter genre, making room for titles like Doom.

Wolfenstein 3D also helped popularize the notion of occultism and its connection to Nazis, which stems back to the '60s and '70s. Such an unspeakable evil easily lent itself to macabre science-fiction lore -- most recently seen in the campy dystopian flick, "Iron Sky."

MachineGames That overwhelming sense of evil is revisited in Wolfenstein: The New Order, and it's the best game in the series since Wolfenstein 3D.

It's 1946 and you play as William "B.J." Blazkowicz (the same character from Wolfenstein 3D)