MachineGames would gladly finish the trilogy, as they originally planned to have three major Wolfenstein titles for the reboot.

Although Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus wasn’t critically bad (we prefer the first game and its standalone expansion, though…), its sales were below expectations. It didn’t reach two million sales on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC combined. Eurogamer interviewed Andreas Öjerfors, a designer at MachineGames, the current devs behind the Wolfenstein franchise.

He couldn’t say how they would continue to refine BJ Blazkowicz, the protagonist of the series, without telling us what they are doing. He added that if they HAD the chance to work on Wolfenstein III, it would be announced at the „E3, two years into the future.” (So 2020, with potential next-gen versions?)

„[Wolfenstein III would] play with the format a bit. Not because it’s necessary but because we would like to do something different. [The New Colossus] is now our third Wolfenstein game [following The New Order and the Old Blood expansion]. If we continued down that route [Wolfenstein 3] we would play with the format a bit, do something that would interest us. Whatever we do, even if we did Tetris 2, [it] would be a first-person shooter,” Öjerfors said. (He forgot that Tetris 2 does exist – 1990, Fuxoft, ZX Spectrum; as well as 1993, Nintendo/Tose, NES, SNES/Game Boy…)

As they are looking for a network programmer at the moment, it’s likely that the third numbered Wolfenstein game could have a multiplayer component. We’ll see…

You can read or review of Wolfenstein: The New Order here and the review of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood here.

Source: WCCFTech