As alternative universes go, our world ruled under a Nazi regime as if they had won the Second World War has been heavily imagined and explored throughout literature from Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to Fatherland by Robert Harris. In video games, there’s one series that epitomises this idea above all others - Wolfenstein.

Released for the PC in 1992, the multi-award winning Wolfenstein 3D heralded and defined the first person shooter genre. Running-and-gunning as American war hero B.J. Blazkowicz, players had to make their violent escape from a prison camp in Castle Wolfenstein by slugging countless Nazi enemies in swastika- shaped rooms until a final encounter with a robotic Hitler.

Now, courtesy of Bethesda Softworks and developers Machine Games, B.J. is back in an all new action-adventure shooter that hopes to reignite the franchise. Scheduled for release at the end of 2013, Wolfenstein: The New World Order is set in an alternative 1960s where giant mecha-Nazis armed with lasers are storming through London as the Third Reich takes over not just the world, but the moon too. We hear it’s going to be a fast-paced shooter packed with retro sci-fi aesthetics, as hinted at the in announcement trailer below.

For more information, head over to the official Wolfenstein website.