Posted on: June 17, 2020
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Best Wolfenstein game ever relesed.
Between nowadays archaic Wolf3D and over the top, cinematic driven New Order there is RTCW, reboot of the series from 2001. While story begins almost the same as old Wolf3D, it quickly goes its own way. Instead of traversing endless mazes, you will visit titular Castle Wolfenstein, catacombs, bombarded city, secret labs, villages... Secret hunting, however, it still there. Game encourages stealth approach. Some guns can be equipped with silencers, and by not alerting Nazis you can easily kill them one by one, instead of all at once. Sometimes stealth it's mandatory, but most of time you can play in all-guns-blazing style if you prefer. Enemies are varied, despite being limited by story setting: from Third Reich troops through zombies to Ubersoldaten. Graphically, game aged rather well - locations look realistic, as well as weapons and especially soldiers uniforms. And last, but not least - orchestral music composed by Bill Brown perfectly matches gameplay. It easily steals the spotlight and holds up even today. However, RTCW is not perfect. This is probably the only FPS where I wish there were less weapons: pistols, Thompson and Snooper are almost never used. Explosive weapons are also underwhelming, Nazis will run away from grenades every time. SS Female Guards appearance steps into weird leather fetish territory, which I feel does not match rest of the game. Also I wish enemies spoke proper German, instead of English with German accent with couple "jawohls" here and there. Subtitles aren't THAT scary :) And lastly, RTCW won't run on modern OS at all unless fanmade high-res patch is applied. While I understand that GOG wants to preserve game as it was released, but additional checkbox for patch during installation would be nice :) Despite being nitpicky in previous paragraph, I consider RTCW the best game in the series. I recently came back to it after many years and I was surprised how well it has aged. Highly recommended.
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