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Not the same

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 50
Date: November 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

IS BACK !!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME WAS MY FIRST COMPUTER GAME, I REALLY LOVE HIM,
I HOPE THEY MAKE A DUKE NUKEM 3D FOR WINDOWS ME TOO,THIS GAME AND WOLF3D ARE ONE OF THE BEST GAME IN THE PLANET.

You aint a gammer till you've beaten it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

The best game of it's time, and best today

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When Wolfenstein came out for the Atari Jaguar, I was interested in it, and so I bought it(also for windows, after I sold my Atari Jaguar). I had no idea of how much fun was pakced inside. Evan today, I am never board of playing Wolfenstein. It's that much fun. I was astonished at first by the idea of a first person shooting game. This idea has been lost today, and replaced with games like Goldeneye, which are fun, but very difficult to control.

Overall, Wolfenstein is a very fun, easy to control, and original game. If you like games such as Doom, or Resident Evil, Wolfenstein will make a phenomenal edition to your collection.

You Gotta Love the Classics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: December 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You gotta love the classics. When you look back on such games as DOOM, Secret of Monkey Island, Zork, Wolfenstein 3D... huh? Wolfenstein 3D?

Yes, that's right: the game with the title that's a mixture of programming language and poor German is a classic.

While not many outside of the gaming world (and a few newbies in the gaming world) know about Wolfenstein 3D, we owe a lot to it. This simple, short, brainless shooter from id Software is the forerunner to games like Quake, Half-Life, and yes, DOOM. I am not exaggerating when I say that none of these games would exist without Wolf 3D - it literally invented the first-person shooter genre.

"You crouch over the guard's body, hoping that the others didn't hear his muffled scream..."

With (approximately) these words, the game opens up in the bowels of the ominous Castle Wolfenstein where you, B. J. Blaskowitz, have been imprisoned. You were searching for evidence of Operation Eisenfaust, a rumored Nazi project involving horrifying experiments on human beings in an effort to create an army of supersoldiers. Now, your only goal is to get out of the prison and save your[self] in the process. Believable? No way, but it is a somewhat interesting beginning (albeit in text form only). Then the game truly begins, and all pretenses of this being a story-driven game go straight to heck.

You start out with a pistol, a clip of ammunition, and a knife, and this is all that you have for a while in order to make it through eight different levels. On the "Can I play, Daddy?" difficulty setting, you run into a few guards, kill them, take their ammo, and maybe tirelessly run up and down using your USE button on the walls in hopes of finding a secret area. This is where Wolf's main fault kicks in - the enjoyment of the game depends far too much on the difficulty setting. While the amount of adrenaline in your body shoots through the (seven) roofs on the highest difficulty setting (appropiately named "I am death incarnate!") due to the increased amount of enemies, you have far too few on the easier settings. Here's an example: on easy setting, you bust (er, open the door) into a room and stand around shooting at the two German grunts, kill them far too easily, pick up the key, and saunter leisurely out. On hard setting, you open the door, charge into the room and maneuver around trying to not get shot into oblivion by the ten or so Germans, frantically grab the key while avoiding the other Germans that are pouring into the room through another door, and make your escape.

Another problem occurs after you kill most of the Germans on a level. Having nothing to do, you start looking around every single room in hopes of finding the one key that you need because you're stuck at a locked door. This might not be so bad except for the fact that the levels contain many small rooms and are very maze-like in nature.

The array of weapons you have is very small as well; you have four weapons at your disposal in the entire game. Most of these are basically the same, differing only in the rate of fire and how much ammunition they [use] up.

One last strike against the game is the anticlimatic ending. You'd think after eight levels of extreme carnage you'd be able to fight your way to the exit among veritable thousands of Nazis and, finally reaching it with more baddies on your tail, be relieved by Allied forces who really take the fight to the Nazis. No such luck. Instead, you have to simply open the door for big ugly with dual chainguns to come out. You'd even think that there would be some kind of complex AI for the endboss, but no luck there either: he just stands there, guns blazing. Sure, he'll follow you if you run away, but there's no big trick to it: just load up the chaingun and give him everything you've got. Then, you're treated to a five second cut-scene of B. J. punching the air as he leaps out of the castle to freedom. The text that sums up the aftermath is nice, but I'd expect a bit more.

Still, despite these basic faults, Wolfenstein has a lot going for it. The graphics engine was incredible for the day, featuring real-time battles with a lot of carnage, and the invention of a genre was no small feat.

In the end, Wolfenstein deserves a look. It's not as much fun as games like DOOM or Half-Life, but it's a nice, short diversion.

PROS: The birth of a genre; superb, adrenaline pumping action on higher difficulty settings; nicely done text.

CONS: It can quickly degrade to searching for a certain key; little variety among weapons; lack of enemies on easier settings; extremely short and anticlimatic ending.

BOTTOM LINE: It won't make you drop your Half-Life or Halo fix, but Wolfenstein 3D is a good buy for anybody that thinks the market is too low on action games.

Wolfenstein 3D

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wolf3D is the first FPS game. The first real 3D game and one of the most important game in history. Without this game the gaming world would look very different with no half-life, quake ect, I dont think even DirectX or 3D cards would be made. In the game you play B.J.Blaskowitz a soldier imprisoned in a nazi castle wolfenstein and you have to escape from there. The gameplay is very good. The controls are very easy to get use to. If you have not played Wolf3D get the game it is a classic FPS. Dont worry if you have not played an FPS before or know what FPS means, Almost every FPS gamer started from this game.

"Not the Same" is a moron

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 22
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(...) 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.

Noplex

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wolfenstien is always fun, and the coming of the new game just makes it better to play. I can still remember playing it on my old 90mhz computer =\ those were the days.

And for the person who posted above, Duke Nukem 3D works fine in Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, just go out to the store and buy it... including the many paks =\

Classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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.

It's the same one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's the age-old classic. If you're not familiar with the age-old classic, Wolfenstien 3-D was one of the orignal first-person shooters. There was no variation in floor to ceiling height, in fact there were no textures for the floor or ceiling at all. It just had a large gray area for the ceiling and floor. Your objective is to storm each castle, fighting everyone's favorite badguys, the nazis. You can equip knives, pistols, machine guns and miniguns. Too bad my new ubercomputer can't play DOS games that well. It would be nice if there was an emulator on the CD allowing it to run in Windows, however this is just the same MS-DOS game packaged in a fancy new jewel case.

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