Return to Castle Wolfenstein
by Activision
|
List Price: Buy Used: from $11.95 (click here) Category: Video Games See more product details |
|---|
(Click here)
Video Game Reviews of Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Customer Review: Very happy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second game that I have purchased from this site. I have to say that I am extremely please with the promptness and quality of the used game.Customer Review: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this game. I have played all the Wolfenstein games and would still play the older ones if the computers supported them.Customer Review: Very Good
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this game!!With all the patches i got it up to the game of the year version.Customer Review: pretty good
Summary: 3 Stars
i got this game for mac it is exelent the graphics are great and the ai is good the only problem is that i can not get to multiplayer! i think this game is great anyway!Customer Review: Guilt-free genocide
Summary: 4 Stars
I suppose if there are two groups whom it's acceptable and almost encouraged to slaughter, it would be Nazis and zombies. It's the only time a defendant could be on the witness stand and confess to his own benefit "Your Honor, they were really asking for it." Which is what makes Return to Wolfenstein so much fun. It's a historically accurate gothic WWII supernatural FPS. One of those rare combinations you throw in a blender and it comes out all yummy.
I'll briefly echo all the other compliments here: nearly photo-realistic graphics; pinpoint control, targeting, and collision detection; silky smooth operation in XP. Voice acting is believable. Weapon and explosion sounds are appropriately metallic and jarring. And the undead are scary as hell. I've played many of the good survival horror franchises, and none except Silent Hill 1 freaked me out like the zombies in Wolfenstein. It was a rare stroke of genius to introduce the Nazi grunts as sympathic victims of the undead hordes, showing scenes of your enemy's enemies devouring them alive. This creates a real hesitation and apprehension about the player's role that exacerbates the fear. In other words: me scared, good job.
So, if it rocks so hard, why not five stars? Well, this little revelation hit me about halfway through the game: instead of being the best Castle Wolfenstein it could be, id decided to make a very good cross between Medal of Honor and Wolfenstein. Which is a very good thing, but remember what set the first Wolfensteins apart from the rest were the exploration and "secret area" goodies. RtW would have been great if every level had been more like Paderborn (the best stage of RtW): more dungeon crawling, deeper and more inventive secret areas. I'm imagining innovative and useable secret goodies that enhanced gameplay, hidden by new concepts of concealing secret doors. You know, play to your strengths rather than copy someone else.
As it is, Return to Wolfenstein is a fun, pretty, and often scary offbeat shooter that's just a hair below the best of the more traditional WWII FPS.