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Wolfenstein

Published By: Morgan Bates On: 26/06/2009 10:00

AT A GLANCE

"Make us proud, or die trying."

The Good: Wolfenstein 3D on Xbox Live and PSN.

The Bad: A room full of Nazis.

The Ugly: Hitler’s fashion sense… yeah I said it.

By Morgan Bates

To start off with, here’s a quick recap of what we covered in the last preview: players will resume the role of BJ Blazkowicz, Raven Software is handling its development, and it’s confirmed for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Over the years, developers Raven have handled a number of high profile titles for Id Software, including the popular Heretic and Hexen titles, and most recently Quake 4. The latter will have made this a lot easier to get started on as it uses that engine: ID Tech 4.

In the off chance you haven’t heard of Wolfenstein, this an old series, so old the original fits on a single floppy disk. Now you might be asking “can such an old series compete with the current crop of World War 2 shooters?” Wolfenstein isn’t your typical WW2 shooter, however - it does things none of the others have tried. It’s a series that has tackled strange Nazi experiments; brought fictional guns into the WW2 formula; turned Hitler into an armoured tyrant with four gatling guns; and sent leather-clad women in to kill you.

This time around the Nazis have harnessed a force known as Black Sun to create the Veil Heavy Trooper – the earliest use of the Black Sun, The Despoiled - SS troopers resurrected by the Elite Guards via a revitalization process. Lastly, the Elite Guard are back from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and BJ will also have to deal with regular SS troopers.

Fortunately, BJ is armed to the teeth with an assortment of heavy weapons - not that he needs them – whereas before he didn’t even have a rocket launcher to take out Hitler with in the original Wolfenstein. Since then, times have changed - these days he packs new, more explosive, weapons.

On the surface the arsenal doesn’t stand out from any other FPS - BJ will have the genre-standard automatics and shotguns. But on top of those, trailers have exposed interesting new toys such as the Particle Cannon, which will vaporize Nazis in the blink of an eye, and a flame thrower. The latter featured in Gray Matter’s Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which had one of the best - Raven will have a lot to live up to with theirs.

Wolfenstein looks set to continue the series’ fine tradition of not being your ordinary charge and shoot World War 2 shooter. You’re all alone this time soldier! Make us proud, or die trying.

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On 26 June 2009, 11:21AM Posted by Xenojay

I just noticed, there's that shot of a Nazi in an armor with glowy things on his shoulders...that's totally a rip of the Tesla Armor from Fallout :'D

Anyway, be interesting to see how this comes out. Could be fun :)

On 26 June 2009, 12:08PM Posted by PotatoLegs

saw a game play trailer and wasn't too impressed so far.

haven't touched Return.. though apparently this will definitely have a lot to live up to, regarding what i've heard of the previous title. still interested to see how it fares

On 26 June 2009, 05:48PM Posted by rebolta

Reply to Xenojay26 June 2009, 11:21AM
I just noticed, there's that shot of a Nazi in an armor with glowy things on his shoulders...that's totally a rip of the Tesla Armor from Fallout :'D Anyway, be interesting to see how this comes out. Could be fun :)

This game was quite integral in its early days. I think I would try it. The screenshots look cool.

On 26 June 2009, 09:28PM Posted by The Host of Chaos

I liked the previous titles, will definitely give this one a go.

On 27 June 2009, 01:21AM Posted by Oliver

Haha holy sh*t some of this game sounds awesome... Like Hitler with gatling guns. I'd play that.

Never played anything of the originals though. Might do me some research...

On 27 June 2009, 01:25PM Posted by Barnicals

Looks pretty awesome...

On 27 June 2009, 04:58PM Posted by Munkah

Reply to Oliver27 June 2009, 01:21AM
Haha holy sh*t some of this game sounds awesome... Like Hitler with gatling guns. I'd play that. Never played anything of the originals though. Might do me some research...

That was referring to Wolfenstein 3D.

On 14 September 2009, 08:15AM Posted by DragonforceNZL

Hi people I was just wondering, is there anyone out there that has this game on 360 and is keen to get rid of it? I am keen to trade this off someone if they're keen. Please just send a message to my 360 gamertag. It is DragonforceNZL. Thanks