History of the Snake's Lair Franchise Part 3
A comparison of two screenshots from both the German and American versions of Snake's Lair: The New Colossus, which there shown here a two different versions of President Jake Featherston.
The game to follow-on the success of The New Order would be Snake's Lair: The New Colossus, which released on September 4th, 2017, which was set immediately after the events of the New Order. Prior to the destruction of Stuart's Laboratory, Pfieffner would be rescued by the Pennsylvanian Circle and he went into a 5 month coma and had some of his organs removed to facilitate his survival. As Karl fades in and out of his coma aboard the
South Carolina (the Cruiser hijacked by the Pennsylvanian Circle), it revealed that his lover, Abelie, was pregnant with twins. The cruiser was raided by Gibbons, a sadistic Freedomite commander who despises Pfieffner for dismembering her in Nevada and killing her lover, Bub, in the events of the previous game. Pfieffner, disorientated and handicapped to a wheel chair, fights his way to Abelie and Samyr, who the three proceed to the main deck. Soon after, however, they learn that Hendricks and Rosny/Wagner (whoever survived the events of the last game is chosen by the player at the beginning) are captured by Gibbons and her forces. Desperate to save his friends, Pfieffner devises a plan to get himself captured and taken to Gibbons' airship, the
Appalachia, which is suspending the cruiser's engines via a tractor beam. There Gibbons beats and mocks him, Hendricks, and Rosny/Wagner. She then tries to get her abused daughter named Sandy to decapitate Hendricks, but the former refuses. Gibbons hits and belittles her daughter, particularly on the "treasonous passages" she read in the diary, before killing Hendricks. After Gibbons taunts Pfieffner with Hendrick's severed head, Sandy has a change of heart and tackles Gibbons, allowing Rosny/Wagner to break free and Pfieffner to use Hendricks Power Suit to regain his strength. Pfieffer fights his way through the Appalachia, destroying the tractor beam and flees back to the
South Carolina with Hendrick's body. The cruiser was continued to be shot at by missiles from the Appalachia. With Sandy's information, they learn about a secret compartment aboard the cruiser called Section F, where some surviving Confederate Sailors hid themselves in and sent the coordinates of the ship to the
Appalachia, which enabled Gibbons to find it in the first place. Pfieffner was sent to go kill them and to fire an EMP warhead to disable the electronics aboard the
Appalachia, enabling them to escape. Following Hendricks' funeral, it was decided that the Pennsylvanian Circle should head to Europe in order to free the continent from the Confederacy and to use it as a springboard to free the rest of the world. Pfieffner had set out make contact with a resistance group hiding in the Reichstag within the ruins of Berlin, which was destroyed by a Confederate Superbomb which resulted in the surrender of the German Reich and her allies to the CSA. As his armor is radiation proof, Karl ventures into the building and find Golda Rosenberg, passionate, scarred Jewish-German, her baby Emma, and Erno Mazyosti, a Hungarian lawyer turned conspiracy theorist. The Confederate Army would attack the Reichstag, but were all killed by Pfieffner and the group was then evacuated to the
South Carolina. On the way back, Pfieffner tries to convince his new allies "That they need to bring the fighting spirit back into the Europeans." Golda is highly skeptical, claiming that the Slavs and Jews "are fighting every day and night," that Germany "has been beaten and now being ruled over" She informs him that after the Confederates conquered Europe, the British and French have been ruling over the Western Part of this land. Pfieffner then tells to forget those bootlickers and focus on the grassroots and then confesses that "he is running empty." Following the return to the cruiser, Pfieffner would retrieve a nuclear warhead from the armory and would get into an argument with his mate, Abelie, but would be interrupted by Golda, who had requested to kill the top Freedomite commanders in Bergen, Norway, which nearby is an unearthed Sek Sekre cache, which was the largest yet unearthed according to Samyr. The secret society was willing to give their technology to the Germans in order to level the playing field of the Freedomite's own, but was too as the they won the war. Pfieffner goes to Norway disguised a fisherman with the nuclear warhead hidden within his toolbox. At a local bar where he got recognized by a Freedomite Stalwart but dies from a poison in his beer placed by the barman who turned out to be Mazyosti. Mazyosti then takes him to his bunker where he has been researching into a long lost Nordic Civilization and explaining his obsession. He then leads Pfieffner into a tunnel that leads to a relay station where the commanders were inspecting the site, which Karl would deposit the bomb in the bases' reactor and escapes on a motorbike, then setting off the bomb, killing off the Confederacy's European High Command. After escaping, Pfieffner would travel to Posen, his hometown under a set of false travel papers. Here, we get introduced to flashbacks from his childhood, including his affection for a neighboring Polish peasant girl named called Beata, saving a rat from drowning in a bucket, and looking over the casket which held his brother named Hans, after dying from a fever. At his home, we would grab an heirloom of his mother's, a ring, which he was told to give to his love. Pfieffner's drunkard father, Fritz, in his First Great War uniform then appears and was shocked to see him home and informs him that his mother was killed to make an example of the town of Posen because she committed ration fraud. Then would go on to rant about "how the cowardly German Aristocracy lost us the war." Then Freedomites with General Gibbons came to the house, who arrests Karl and shoots his father who struck one of the Freedomite officers. While in a prison camp called Camp Honorable in Bohemia, Mazyosti visits him disguised as a camp inspector, informing him that the local resistance intends to free him. However with his famous last words "Remember, we will prevail over these bastards." Gibbons would blow Mazyosti's head up with her magnum and tells him that he discovered his ruse the moment he entered the camp. The partisans who were sent in to rescue Pfieffner were captured and executed while the two watched from a TV screen. For crimes deemed the highest treason, he was executed by hanging at the Deutches Ecke in front of millions in a televised event. When his corpse was put into a furnace, his body was recovered by a robot which was taken to a resistance hideout where Samyr detaches his head and grafts on the body of a bio-engineered Confederate super-soldier, which after getting back on his feet, Pfieffner would say that he feels "like a freight train at high speed." After breaking into a Confederate bunker underneath Berlin, he finds a file on Konigsberg, which was according to the files was to be leveled with it's inhabitants about to be set in motion. As he was on the way there in the Prussian wilderness, he encounters a group of resistance who turned out to be what is left of the Imperial German Army with their leader, Crown Prince Wilhelm. The Crown Prince would then introduce his men to Pfieffner, including the violin playing Nikolaus Waltz and marksman Otto von Stolz, who was a German nobleman. Pfieffner would get them to join his cause when he said, "I'll be damned if I were to raise my kids where these Freedomites rule the world!" After the Prince and his band got aboard the
South Carolina, he told the members of the circle that the
Appalachia was designed to clamp down on all revolts across Europe, so it is necessary to take control of that airship, but it the codes to it's central system were stored in a secure location somewhere around the plant Venus. Pfieffner assumes the alias of Viktor Rothenberg to take part in an audition of a propaganda based on the capture and defeat of Karl the Terrible (Pfieffner's name for the Confederates) directed by an ailing Jake Featherston. After playing his role at gunpoint, Pfieffner would brave the harsh climate of Venus to obtain the codes and returns to earth to be deciphered. The partisans led by Pfieffner would then assault the
Appalachia and get to it's core and shut down it's security system and hijacks it's command systems. Pfieffner would then travel to the ground and enter a broadcast studio where Gibbons was on television. Karl would shoot him to avenge Hendricks and would proclaim the start of the revolution. Crown Prince Wilhelm, Golda, and Pfieffner would go up on the television in front of the millions of Europeans watching that the Freedomites lying and propaganda had made their thoughts a crime, and if they forgot to fight, and it was the Freedomites that invades their shores. Following the speech in a post credits scene, Pfieffner takes the ring off the corpse of Gibbons and proposes to Abelie. Like Snake's Lair 4, the game would prove to be successful and was as popular as the previous game. The game would also be offered in the Gold Anniversary Pack with all of the previous titles, including a remastered version of Snake's Lair 2 and it's GameStation exclusive expansion pack, which this time was released to all ports. It would also include the canned Dark Winter Expansion Pack for Snake's Lair 3 along with an expansion pack titled Rogue System featuring BJ Blazkowicz leading a Yankee resistance cell in Michigan taking out a new AI called C.A.S.S.I. which developed by the Confederates, which ended up going self-aware and turning on it's Freedomite creators in the year 1961.
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Part 4 coming soon.
