Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Decent Engine as GNU GPL with atmosphere of its own, though as with most FPS, violent time loss.

I decided I needed some old school fun in my life and played through this game. Honestly, it is probably the weakest Wolfenstein game made. Stiff, dull and looks like dog shit.

Seems to me that there is A LOT of fan boys rating reviews for this game since every negative review for this game is heavily down voted regardless of how factual they are... But still: I did not like this game. Among other things, the graphics are REALLY dated. Much worse than how I remember the just three years newer Doom 3 looked on a 27" 1080p monitor. It is possible to set the resolution to 2048 * 1536, but the picture is still very grainy on my 55" 4K TV and not stretched to the edges of the TV. The setting on my TV to adjust the picture size were grayed out. But my biggest grievances regarding this game is that you have to empty you magazine at least once to kill some of the ordinary enemies. Try to imagine how it is to fight several of these enemies at once in cramped corridors...! At least one type of enemy are virtually acrobats, but you can just look around corners without being able to shoot, and/or crouch. On the other hand, you can be killed more or less immediately when suddenly enemies with superpowers with ditto weapons suddenly appears! I also found the "Secret areas" to be too hidden. I looked, and I looked, and I... but I think I found just half of them, if even that many... It did not help that several of the levels practically were labyrinths... Pros: The game seems to be relatively large considering that it is from 2001. I used approximately net 11 hours to finish the game. I believe that if you played this game when it was released, or at least not too long after its release, and liked it then, you might like it now as well. But if you never have played this game before and do not know what awaits you, you will probably not like this game due to how dated and badly balanced it is.

I write this review as a World War II enthusiast, and I must say, I know video games can and will take creative liberties based on their limitations as software, but this game, oh boy, I don't even know where to start. While I understand the premise is a fictionalized tale, not unlike a movie, I have to say if it were loosely based on anything, and I assure you World War II is a well-documented event that lasted several years, they took some wildly fictitious turns with the source material. While the Nazis, curse them in hell, may have been interested in some sick and twisted things, I have extreme doubts they employed scantily clad women as elite guards, had access to such an excessive amount of FG 42s, released ghosts and animated corpses with ghost powers from their crypts, created monstrous robo-cyborgs with electroshock capabilities, and while The Greatest Generation is named as such for good reason, I also doubt the capabilities of just one man alone are enough to survive a great deal of lead going through his body, and I doubt the Nazi engineers developed and placed everywhere bags of medicine with hyper metabolic properties that cures wounds. Of all the World War II video games I've played in my life, this is up there with the most unrealistic. --- Joking aside, I actually found returning to this game kind of disappointing. I know it's a 2001 game, but I found the gameplay loop repetitive in terms of pure action. Enemy variations are not interesting, since 80-90% of everything you fight is a machine gunner. The stealth sections help break up the pacing, but nothing compelling. The story is messily conjoined, starting with one narrative then being put on hold until the last act, while the second takes up the majority of the game. Best Wolfenstein? Yeah right. I got it running at 1080p without using unofficial patches by just using the console, it would always crash on a few level loads, but lowering the resolution fixed this.

whoops. can get killed on god mode. ala Max Payne 2. I got rid of Max Payne 2 for that reason. Sold it ages ago. Some people play games for the challenge. Some play it for level design and art. I'm the latter idiot. And lemmings like to shout out how they hate God mode. Well thats up to them. When it doesn't I have my own rash opinions about it. This game seriously needs saves games attached as extra's. At least one major bug towards the beginning that'll get you caught everytime. Maybe we needed to grow up under Japanese games, not american releases that were toned down of Japanese games (Mario's Lost Levels etc) They'd love this challenge I'm sure. So I played this and reminded myself fast why I hated it. Fortunately there is a save game site so I could bother to finish it.