Hans sings “ Mein Kleiner” (“My Little”). “ Toe The Line” comes from The Bunkers, which are like the Nazi version of The Monkees. “ Weltraumsurfen” by The Comet Tails is a Beach Boys-style song about surfing in outer space. “The whole point of the game is to shoot them and take the world back.” “It is certainly not a game that is sympathetic toward the Nazis,” Hines said. Rather, they’re more like German versions of ’60s pop culture songs. And the developers were careful not to cross a line in creating a new form of pro-Nazi propaganda. Beyond that, there were no restrictions on using the music in certain scenes.” Those symbols are constitutionally banned in Germany. “The music can’t be used with any Nazi symbolism. “It was a hard and easy line for us,” Hines said. That’s because the licensing restrictions meant that no one could use the songs could alongside Nazi symbols. One of the covers is The Animals’ “The House of the Rising Sun.” Another is Martha and the Vandellas’ “Nowhere to Run.” “The House of the Rising Sun” appears in the game, but those other hits does not appear in Wolfenstein: The New Order. The game includes three cover songs and eight originals. One of the bands had a bunch of developers from Harmonix Music Systems, the maker of games like Rock Band. The majority of the songs were recorded in the U.S. And it shows just how much the Nazis are controlling things as the hero tries to overthrow them. It’s what could have happened to music if the Nazi tide was never turned back. It’s as if the song never existed in English because the Nazis won World War II, and their culture pervaded everything in the 1960s. But rather than John Lee Hooker’s voice, a German singer busts out the lyrics in German. It juxtaposes the happy sounds of “Boom Boom” with horrific violence as the Nazis slaughter civilians and the hero fights back against them. Although they were created by musicians using fictional band names, the songs have a real emotional impact.

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