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Summary: "Not the Same" is a moron
Review: (...) I formally urge any serious buyers (of anything) to do your homework before wasting money on something you don't want. To set the record strait, id Software (original deviser of both games) is NOT trying to confuse you. Buyers have been buying this game since 1991. It has been in various packs and combinations. It was the first widespread sucessful shooter. id Software simply re-released the game (again) because the buyers who missed out on the whole shooter craze (1991-1997) want to own BOTH games. I assure you, this game is the classic, and should not be confused with it's offspring.To cap it off, this classic is worth the ten buck for people who like doom, etc. The graphics are pretty corny, but for it's day that was top of the line. This is the original ...-kicking, ...-hating, 3-D revolutionizing game. The child of this game, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, has awesome graphics, and I urge you to buy them both. The games are well worth your time and, for the last time, look before you buy.
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Summary: the black sabbath of first person shooters
Review: Barring a few less popular (and less good) 3D action games before Wolf3D like the Catacombs series, this is the first FPS ever to grace the PC, which was release in like December 1991 or something like that. Its graphics suck for today's standards, and the gameplay is repetitive, but in 1992 it was pretty much the equivalent of what Half-Life was to gamers in 1998 and Far Cry is now, groundbreaking. You can get the shareware version free on Apogee1.com and probably the full version on abandonware or something. Also its really easy, I've heard people say that it's harder than Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (a very unknown and underrated 1993 FPS with the Wolf3D engine), but that's a bunch of bull. The SS (and the rest of the enemies) can't fire their machine guns if you continually pelt them with the pistol but machine gun toters in Blake Stone will continually shoot even if they're getting hit, making for some ultratense shootouts that rarely existed in Wolf3D. Also, let it be known that once you get the chaingun, you are virtually unstoppable (and you can get it on Floor 2...."if ya know where ta go!") Having said all that, this game is good fun and also good for those who want to see where the seeds of such games as Half-Life were planted, but let it be known, that shooters in years following like Blake Stone and DOOM are much more challenging.....and funner. ****Also, this game shouldn't be rated Mature. The blood is very minimal and unrealistic, the rating is probably for all the Nazi swastikas and Hitler portraits on the castle walls.
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Summary: Classic
Review: i do not play this game much anymore, but i had a lot of fun when i first got it, it is worth every penny of the 9.99, it doesn't have very good graphics because its old, but its a classic, and a must have for any first person shooter fan.
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Summary: The Pleasures of Nostalgia
Review: I remember I was 8 years old, when I first played Wolfenstein 3D. It was an absolutely revolutionary game, and I didn't even realized it. I just saw it as an addictive and very fun game. Nobody had seen anything like Wolf before. The idea of a 1st-person shooter caused the gaming world to change forever. Id Software and Apogee released Wolf in 1992 and it was the most talked-about game and dare-I-say interactive entertainment event of that year. After Wolf came Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and the rest is history. This game spawned a whole genre of games! There, now that I have explained the history of Wolf as a revolution, people who haven't even heard of this game (and there are a lot of them) will realize the importance of this game not just as a game, but as an event in the history of entertainment media that changed it...forever. Wolfenstein tells the story of B. J. Bloczovics. I am not sure if I spelled his name right. B. J. is an allied spy inside a castle called Wolfenstein. He has various missions which are divided into episodes of which there is a total of 6. In these episodes, B.J. fights his way through Nazi installations trying to destroy their plans of chemical war and victory in WW2 through cloned soldiers. The game follows a simple kill baddies, find keys, find exit, and get the hell out formula. The enemies B. J. faces are various Nazi and SS soldiers. At the end of each episode B. J. has to fight a boss. The boss at the end of the third episode by the way, is Hitler himself. The AI isn't very good, but hey, the game is extremely exciting anyway. This game was the first to give people adrenaline rushes. There are only 3 guns in the game, all of them use the same type of ammo. You can't jump, look up or down, or any of the things one can do in modern shooters. With all of its shortcomings, it is nevertheless, a very fun game. The game graphics are quite simplistic. The graphics are very simple and with today's standard's: terrible. The roofs and floors in the setting are always grey. The walls of installations are repetitiously colored. Here and there, one finds portraits of Hitler, Swastica flags, skeletons in cages, blood, etc. on the walls. The animation is okay, but again, one cannot even compare Wolf's graphics with those of todays games. The sounds are okay too. The Nazis say the same things like: Achtung!, Halt!, etc. over and over again. The sound of doors opening and guns firing are still pretty cool. If you haven't played Wolfenstein 3D yet, buy this and enjoy. If you played it as a youth and don't have it anymore, you may want to buy this and experience some nostalgic pleasure.
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Summary: Still enjoyable
Review: I'm giving it 5 stars beause when I played it in high school a decade ago, I was totally addicted. It was the first PC game I ever played and now I'm strictly PC-gamer. WOLF 3D now is a total trip down memory lane. I'm not sure it's a 'must have' of any FPS gamer, but I'm glad I have it just for the nostaglia factor. That's why I bought it, but I still play it. It's definitely good for a few laughs. It's amazing how far we've come in just 10+ years. Also, it's works. I threw it on my laptop that runs WinME and I haven't had any problems. Whenever I'm on a train and don't feel like working, writing letters or playing solitaire, I'm glad I have WOLF 3D just to kill time. If you're a die hard fan, lay down 10 bucks and own the original FPS. If you're not or can't take the old-school gameplay, then I don't think you'll miss not having this in your collection.
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Summary: The Dawning Of A New Era.
Review: In 1992, little-known development house ID Software released what would be one of the most influential action games of the 90s. That game was not DOOM but Wolfenstein 3D. Although primitive by today's standards, Wolfenstein 3D was revolutionary when it was released, and was indeed the obvious precurser to such greats as Doom, Half Life, and System Shock 2. Graphics - 2/5: What was incredible back in 1992 is pretty lame 11 years later. There is only a handful of wall-textures (not even any outdoor environments), the enemies are really just flat 2D sprites, and the weapons don't look at all convincing. Still, when the game was released, this was about as good as 256 color VGA graphics got. That's worth a few points right there. Sound - 2/5: Sound doesn't play a very important role in Wolfenstein 3D, with the exception of the occasional low-quality sound sample of a guard giving orders. The gunshots are pretty boring, and the music (while well composed) is repetitive. Control and Gameplay - 3/5: There really isn't much to the control other than shooting Nazis, walking around, shooting Nazis, picking up items, and shooting Nazis. There's no jumping or crouching (due to the game's 2 1/2-D nature), no special "action" key, etc. The levels (consisting of a slew of rooms) are well designed but very maze-like and you'll eventually grow tired of their repetitive nature after about 30 levels. Once again, the game's age is its excuse for such shortcomings. Overall - 4/5: This score is a bit of a stretch since Wolfenstein 3D definitely does not hold a candle to games like Half Life, No One Lives Forever, or even DOOM. But considering its historical significance, and mostly solid (if repetitive) gameplay, it gets a 4 star rating from me. If you can still find the old shareware version and are looking for a nice trip down memory lane, I'd say Wolfenstein 3D is definitely worth a look. Just don't expect anything that hasn't already been done with countless other FPSs.
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Summary: ACTION AND ADVENTURE
Review: IN THIS GAME YOU BATTLE BIG BOSSES, NAZIS, GERMAN SHEPARDS, HITLERS GHOST, GERMAN OFFICERS, MUTANTS, AND SS GUARDS, AND ENCOUNTER GHOSTS ON EPISODE THREE FLOOR SEVEN.
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Summary: You aint a gammer till you've beaten it
Review: It all started here, with this game. This was the beginning of the first person shooters. Playing it and sticking with it till the end well it's like tracing your roots, going to Macca and all that. There is something about the sounds of the doors as they open and close, the loneliness of cells that I return back to this game every 3 or 4 years. It centers me and it's fun killing those Nazi guy's. You have got to try it.
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Summary: It's the same one
Review: It's the age-old classic. Too bad my new ubercomputer can't play DOS games that well.
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Summary: Not the same
Review: Just wanted to warn people. This is not the new Wolfenstein game. This is the old one from 1992. I don't know why they are rereleasing it, and charging (amount) for it, probably to trick people.
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