Some things that stood out to me in the game included going to Venus where a very senile and paranoid Hitler resides and he is trying to make a movie about "Terror Billy" (Blazkowicz). In all honesty, I am surprised that Adolf was even in the game, I would have expected one of his generals to have killed him and blamed the resistance, but no, he is off-world and humored by his Nazi goons. Too bad Blazkowicz didn't have an opportunity to end him while he was on Venus.

The Freedom Chronicles were also a short, and fun, playthrough of additional stories in the alt-history Wolfenstein series.  It was a way to explore some of the different body modifications that Blazkowicz got in the main game. Since you can only pick one of the enhancements, unless you play the game multiple times with the three different playstyles, you probably won't get to experience the different options. Some of the critiques I saw online of the Freedom Chronicles were that they just re-used the same areas as the core game (e.g., the Moon Base map) without much change.  That didn't bother me as much TBH.  It was fun to get some new narrative in the game (and I hope these characters have cameos in the sequel to this, although I doubt it).

Plot Summary from Wikipedia

During the events of Wolfenstein: The New Order, the Kreisau Circle retrieves a critically injured Blazkowicz from Deathshead's fortress before destroying it with a nuclear cannon. With Deathshead's death and the compound's destruction, the Nazi's research division is crippled, stagnating their technological advancement. Blazkowicz falls into a five-month-long coma. As he fades in and out of consciousness aboard the captured U-boat Eva's Hammer, it is revealed that Anya, Blazkowicz's love interest, is pregnant with twins. The U-boat is attacked by SS-Obergruppenführer Irene Engel, a sadistic Nazi commander who captures Caroline. Blazkowicz devises a plan to get himself captured and taken to Engel's airship, the Ausmerzer, which is suspending the U-boat above water. Engel's daughter Sigrun refuses to decapitate Caroline, so Engel kills Caroline instead. Sigrun tackles Engel, allowing Blazkowicz to use Caroline's armor. Blazkowicz disconnects Eva's Hammer from the Ausmerzer and flees back to the U-boat with Sigrun and Caroline's body.

After Caroline's funeral, the group decides to carry out what would have been the next step in her plan to end the Nazi regime: liberate America and use it as a central base from which to free the world. The group sets out to contact a resistance group hiding in the Empire State Building amid the ruins of Manhattan, which was destroyed by a Nazi atomic bomb. Blazkowicz finds and recruits Grace Walker, a passionate, scarred African-American woman, and Norman "Super Spesh" Caldwell, a lawyer-turned-conspiracy theorist. Grace informs the Circle of her plan to cripple Nazi leadership in the US by destroying the Oberkommando in Roswell, New Mexico, near the site of an unearthed Da'at Yichud cache. Blazkowicz travels to Roswell with a portable nuclear warhead before heading to Super Spesh's hideout. Spesh takes him to his bunker and to a tunnel that leads to the Oberkommando, where Blazkowicz deposits the bomb in the base's reactor and detonates it.

After escaping Roswell, Blazkowicz takes a detour to Mesquite, his hometown, to recover an heirloom ring. His abusive and racist father Rip (Glenn Morshower) appears and chastises him, justifying his abuse of Blazkowicz and his mother. Rip tells Blazkowicz he allowed his mother to be taken by the Nazis because she was Jewish, and he intends to hand him over as well. Blazkowicz kills his father as Engel's forces arrive, and he is captured while Engel keeps the ring. Super Spesh visits Blazkowicz under the guise of his lawyer, telling him of their plan to break him out. However, Engel kills Spesh, having known his ruse. Blazkowicz is sentenced to death and beheaded at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in front of millions in a televised event.

The Kreisau Circle recovers Blazkowicz's head and surgically grafts it onto a bioengineered Nazi super-soldier body. Blazkowicz breaks into a Nazi bunker under New York, stealing a file on New Orleans, which is revealed to be a large ghetto. Blazkowicz travels there to gather freedom fighters under communist Horton Boone's command. They break out of the ghetto and escape on Eva's Hammer. To capture the Ausmerzer to prevent its use against the Kreisau Circle's planned revolution, they plan to steal the codes to deactivate its automated defense system by traveling to Venus, where the codes are kept in a Nazi facility. Blazkowicz assumes the identity of an actor and is invited to Venus to participate in a propaganda film audition produced by Adolf Hitler, who is looking for a suitable actor to play Blazkowicz. Blazkowicz retrieves the codes and returns to Earth to decipher them. The Kreisau Circle mounts an assault on the Ausmerzer, where the resistance members disable the defense and hijack its command systems. Blazkowicz and his team travel to the ground, where Engel is on national television in California. Blazkowicz kills Engel, and the Kreisau Circle proclaims the start of a revolution to liberate America. To ensure the total collapse of the Nazis's chain of command in the US, Grace orders BJ to kill all Ubercommanders who served as Engel's lieutenants.

The revolution is depicted pictorially during the credits sequence. In a post-credits scene, Blazkowicz takes back his heirloom ring from Engel's body and proposes to Anya.

Overall thoughts:

Overall it was a fun game, and I would replay it in the future.  I like the fact that I can turn down the difficulty in mid-game so I could just progress with the storytelling. I think there were a few spots thought the game that progression would not have been possible (for me) if I couldn't change the difficulty level.    

Throughout the game, you collect Enigma Codes, which you use at tokens for a deciphering game.  If you win the deciphering game, you get the map location of additional commanders that you can go assassinate. That was an interesting mechanic, but the benefit of assassinating commanders that are discovered in the mini-game is more loot, which I don't find as worthwhile. It would have been more motivating to learn more about the world and get some more story from it.

Speaking of stories, you get to learn more about Blazkowicz's childhood in this game, which is pretty sad. I felt bad for the guy (beyond all the sh*t he's gone through in this game and the previous game!). BJ has had one hard life.

Statistics:

Gamerscore: 400/1540

Achievements: 27/80

Enemies killed: 252

Collected Enigma Codes: 48