Tis a good game. I remember spending hours on online multiplayer endlessly playing the beach assault level (all others were rubbish to play).
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
As a nipper during the 1970s and early 80s, there can't be a war movie I haven't seen, either at the cinema or on telly on a rain Sunday afternoon. You can surely say the same of Grey Matter Interactive, because its Return to Castle Wolfenstein lets you play pretty much every famous war film scene. Not that this is a dull …
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 11:30 GMT Adam Foxton
Amazingly enough
I was playing this earlier today!
Sat in a boat which is itself sat on the equator, there's nothing better to while away the hours than Nazi-shooting. Except C&C matches, but the old work's laptop won't run it :(
Excellent game, almost makes up for the lack of pints on this tub.
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 11:56 GMT Jim McCafferty
My aching bones
I never thought Return to Castle Wolfenstein would make it to the retro archive - Wolfenstein in 3D was supposed to be the golden oldie! Feeling very old....
Hours of fun - especially the enemy territory mod - until the cheaters started clearing the beach level with rocket jumps.
My only complaint was the overheating guns... usually malfunctioninh at a point where the scene in front of you needed serious lead injection lest the consequences were not particularly pretty.
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Thursday 24th May 2012 01:06 GMT TeeCee
Re: My aching bones
Yes, no contest.
Using the Sten in short bursts of three of four shots is hugely effective, as it's both got some punch and it's very accurate. You can almost snipe with the thing.
The MP40 is a fairly random bullet hose and to inflict the same amount of damage, I find it needs a reload before the Sten would overheat.
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Thursday 24th May 2012 11:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: My aching bones
"Wolfenstein in 3D was supposed to be the golden oldie! Feeling very old...."
Cue all the *truly* ancient users pointing out that Wolfenstein 3D was itself a "modern" sequel to the original "Castle Wolfenstein" game, which was originally released on the Apple II in *1981*!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 11:59 GMT Rameses Niblick the Third (KKWWMT)
I remember being somewhat disappointed
I really wanted to like this game, and to be fair, the first third or so, I really did enjoy, but the catacomb level was such a change of pace that I remember being really bored with it and losing interest.
I guess I was always more of a Medal of Honour guy.
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 12:11 GMT Piercy
Enemy Territory
I used to play enemy territory. It was released free. A class based FPS and was absolutely brilliant. If youre used to TF2 its like that but without cartoon graphics. If anything TF2 copied the ideas from ET (but likely they got the idea from somewhere else).
RTCW, such a cool game :)
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 12:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Enemy Territory
> If anything TF2 copied the ideas from ET (but likely they got the idea from somewhere else).
Yeah; from the original Team Fortress :p
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 12:14 GMT Mondo the Magnificent
Antique allready?
How time flies.. I recall buying RTCW and loving the 3D rendering, however the game wasn't quite as good as I anticipated.
The sniper rifle was great as was the silenced Sten gun, which if I recall correctly, had a nasty habit of overheating.
It wasn't perfect, but it was a good step forward in bringing a new look to those classic sprite based games we wasted so many hours playing.
I do still own the installation CD and may just replay it sometime seeing as it's now considered an "antique" and may just hold a "classic" title seeing as ElReg has rekindled my interest in this no so old school 3D FPS.
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 14:06 GMT A. Coatsworth
"jarhead black-humour"
Great game actually., I still should have the CD somewhere... but they made a terrible mistake with the "black humour" mentioned by the writer: they made me feel pity and even *gulp* sympathy for the poor nazi soldiers... a thing that should never, ever happen!
At the start of one level you could hear 2 sentries complaining because the night was freezing and the high command hadn't issued them with enough blankets, so they had to endure the night shift under prepared... a few second later, I hosed them with a spray of hot lead, it was the only sensible thing to do. In another level, other 2 soldiers were scared sh*tless by the murdered beast that had escaped from the dungeon (i.e. Blazkowitz) Poor, poor guys
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 16:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
Ah... one of those old games set in the version of the Second World War, where the Nazis had swastika flags. Not the revised history most modern games adopt, whereby the Germans seem to have fought under the old Imperial standard. And then of course there's the Civilisation franchise where Germany is represented by their most infamous military leader... er... Bismark and Russia by their most infamous military leader... er... Catherine the Great.
Disclaimer: Not a Nazi, I just hate the re-writing of history to make it fit contemporary PC morés.
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 20:04 GMT fuego
Implication being...
...that all Germans ever were Nazis, and all Russians ever were Soviets?
The game featured swastikas because it's set during WWII, as you correctly state. Where's WWII mentioned in Civ though? The country had more leaders in its history than just Adolf, so why focus on that cock?
Also, ever stop to think it might be a question of decorum? How palatable do you think a game like Civ would be if for example you could play as Pol Pot and win?
You're looking for a conspiracy, where none exists.
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Friday 25th May 2012 09:37 GMT Tom 38
Re: Implication being...
"How palatable do you think a game like Civ would be if for example you could play as Pol Pot and win?"
It's actually harder than it looks. You have to be oppressive to your own people, whilst being introverted and technology resistant. It's bloody hard work to win as Pol Pot, race to Fundamentalism, Railroad and Engineers and then start destroying the other players with Fanatics before they discover Partisanism…
Oh you meant ethically. My bad.
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Wednesday 23rd May 2012 22:53 GMT Dave 126
> I just hate the re-writing of history to make it fit contemporary PC morés.
Christolphe Waltz, who played the 'Jew Hunter' in Tarintino's Inglorius Basterds has said that he had never considered playing a Nazi before because he'd always felt WW2 had just been turned into a cinematic theme-park whilst pretending to historically correct. Tarrintino's film, by contrast, makes no pretense at all of being historically accurate and so Waltz was happy to do it.
Likewise, the plot elements of RTCW are so bonkers that no one could for a moment consider it authentic, so any inaccuracies can be overlooked.
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Thursday 24th May 2012 01:11 GMT TeeCee
There's a reason for that, it's illegal to sell a game in DE that's covered in swastikas.
IIRC, the DE version came with doctored graphics. Most games companies are too tight to do this.
Still playing it occasionally and it runs well under Win 7 64 bit at 1960x1080, although requires some jiggery-pokery to get it installed and running.
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Thursday 24th May 2012 12:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
I'm not absolutely sure it was this game, but seeing the article reminded me so I think it was: I recall being faced with a particularly nasty and powerful enemy. Unable to defeat him in the normal, manly way, I did what any self-respecting player would do: I ran and hid.
I hid, as it turns out, under some table or piece of equipment that was deep enough for me to avoid the enemy's fire, since he couldn't duck.
While pondering strategy, I amused myself by taking pot shots at him from under the furniture. Bang, ow! Bang, argh! Bang, ergh!
And it occurred to me: The game deals at least -some- damage no matter where this guy gets shot. It would take a while, I reasoned, but it would be risk-free.
And so I defeated a powerful and menacing foe by shooting him fifty times in the ankles.
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Thursday 24th May 2012 22:05 GMT Steve Carr 1
Sherman? Heck no!
The text says you get to escort "a slow-moving Sherman tank", but clearly the author is not well enough versed in WWII hardware, as the tank in question is actually a Panzerkamfwagen (Panzer) III. In fact the screen shot with the article says you are escorting a captured Panzer in the mission as well.
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Friday 25th May 2012 08:46 GMT burundi
Loved This
This was the first game I played seriously online, I spent many hours (too many) blasting the other team with Panzerfausts from the top of the cable car level. I loved the Game of The Year expansion pack as well, that was great for online play, I think I spent most of my time on the BlueYonder game servers.