Wolfenstein 3D

First of all, I didn't play wolf3d back in the day, I'm a bit younger and the first fps I played was actually return to castle wolfenstein. So there's no rose tinted glasses here. There is a lot of fast paced action and hunting for secrets. The music is beautiful, in my opinion; Bobby Prince's work is phenomenal here. The graphics are really impressive for 1992, but the age was showing even a year and a half later when doom came out; still, it is amazing use of the hardware. The story really not that important, but the setting is great none the less. The biggest problem with the game is the level design which is directly tied to the limitations of the game engine: the levels are quite repetitive, there is not enough graphical variety. This is a problem not only for lacking "pretty" graphics, but it's difficult to place landmarks in levels by which the player can orient himself. For this reason it can be tiresome to play more than five or six levels in one sitting. Taking these flaws into consideration, it is still a very fun shooter in its own right, and I also recommend you play it for experiencing history. It must have been MINDBLOWING seeing a fast paced 3d game in the midst of a bunch of platformers and point and click adventure games on the pc at that time. The cornerstone of first-person shooter games.

not full and broken.

Wolf 3D holds up well for it's age but anyone who has played post Doom first person shooters is probably going to struggle with the movement in game. You can't strafe and turn at the same time which really takes some getting used to. Otherwise the gameplay is fine. You need to be careful as being too gung-ho will get you killed real quick. A few shots up close will see you go down. The environments can be a bit too maze like at times due to the limited wall textures making everything look the same, this does get better when you play the later missions as they added new textures to spice things up. If you have an interest in first person shooters, it's worth a quick blast through over the course of a few hours just to get a little slice of gaming history.

but still makes me sick in the head after about 20min of gaming...that didn't changed after 30years...:) just a fun-bought for cheap....playing doom or duke nukem doesn't make me feel sick in my head... i just had the 90's tomb raider version on a cd from a pc-magazine in my youth.... it's a nice add-on for my 2 lil i4770/i4790 4gb gpu 8/16gb ram win10 pc's; on them i play older pc (90's - early2010's)/dos/amiga-emu games...still looking out for older cheap games on sale...

It isn't Doom, but it was very good for the time. Nice to see where the IP came from.