Maybe I just need to git gut, but these bastards killed some of the fun I had with the game. These things shoot lightning, almost insta killing you and have a ton of health. The only thing I found a little annoying about this game, is the sudden difficulty spike with the introduction of those weird UFO human hybrid abominations. In the multiplayer mode, this showed even better, making for a good online experience. Movement and controls are fluent, and like I said, make the game fast paced. Gunfire sounds excellent and the sounds and rattles that enemies make, really enhance the experience. In terms of sound, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is also a fine piece of work. Explosions, animations and gun impact look really good and I can only praise it. This game is from 2001/2002, but can be considered next gen for its time. The visuals are stunning in Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I did not think that it added much to the game and it sometimes slowed the game to a halt. Especially since there are some missions that require it to even progress. The introduction of Stealth in this game was a little unnecessary in my opinion. After killing him, Heinrich Himler disappears in the distance, confirming that you officially screwed up every plan the Germans had for this project and that he needs to face the wrath of the Fuhrer himself. You blast your way through the site and ruins and eventually fight Heinrich I himself. You make your way to the excavation site near Castle Wolfenstein while fighting off hordes of nazi’s, demons and even more Über Soldaten. You eventually uncover the full plans of the Paranormal SS Division, which consists of resurrecting Heinrich I, a powerful Saxon Warlock King (it keeps getting better and better) from 943 AD. You fight this abomination, only to see Deathshead flee in a Kobra rocket plane, disappearing for the rest of the game. You track him down again, but this time, he throws one of his newest creations at you, the Über Soldat. You eventually find the man himself, but he escapes via a U-boat. You fight your way through a nazi research factory and discover some gruesome experiments from Deathshead. The leader of the Paranormal Division is General Deathshead and you learn of his plans and whereabouts later in the game. This goes wrong of course, and the land is terrorized by zombies, demons and spirits. They eventually dig up an “Dark Night”, and with him, the curse they were trying to release and control. In Return to castle Wolfenstein, the German SS “Paranormal” Division tries to dig up an ancient curse in Egypt to create an army of zombies to fill the ranks of the nazi’s (classic Wolfenstein).
It is fast paced, hard as ever, and a worthy installment. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was a great game with some amazing visuals at the time. The long awaited follow up of Wolfenstein 3D did not disappoint. This is all about the gameplay rather than the characters and plot twists and on that level it works just fine, so I'll give it my 'gold star for not being crap', for showing up to the party with its fly zipped up and not embarrassing itself.19h Played*Warning: spoilers* Great game with excellent multiplayer. exists to string the levels together without being very interesting in its own right, but it does all it needs to do. It feels more like a World War 2 game with supernatural and sci-fi elements than a fantasy game with World War 2 elements, and that made it pretty unique back in the day when there weren't a great deal of WW2 shooters on PC. I like how it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it still remains surprisingly grounded in a comic book kind of way and it respects its setting. The game lies somewhere between 90s FPS games and the set piece driven WWII shooters of the mid 2000s, closer to something like GoldenEye than it is to Call of Duty. I suppose I'd better share some final thoughts about Return to Castle Wolfenstein then. oh shit, someone else pressed the alarm? Don't tell me that the guys in the watch towers have alarm buttons too! I'm so crap at this. GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THAT ALARM BUTTON YOU NAZI BASTARDS!