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Better recognize.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Chris, or user "iamtheman_", who wrote the "I'm SO ANGRY at Wolf3D" diatribe is missing the point.

This game was so. Incredibly. Frieking. Awesome. ...when it came out..yea, what? 15 years ago? I remember playing this on a 486. It was revolutionary. So it doesn't use DirectX inputs. Do you scream at black and white movies, too?

And it says right there, on the flipping description that it won't run on XP. So...whose fault is it that it doesn't work on your XP machine, d00d? Seriously.

I think a fair review of this game would have to take into account that playing PC games that are 15 years old isn't something you do because you want a cheap game--it's something you do because you appreciate the genre.

Classic FPS. Just needs some work to run.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What can you expect from a game that came out 15 years ago? A lot of fun if you are willing to take the time to get it to run.

Wolfenstien 3D was released in May of 1992 and set the standard for what a sucessful FPS needed to be. The basic elements of Wolf 3D can be found in one form or another in every FPS since.

However the game has become rather difficult to get running on todays computers. Being built for dos, it is hard to bring it into a dosless enviroment. There are some excellent emulators that have been released, one being Dosbox, and with Wolf's recent release on Steam it makes it easier than ever to play this classic game.

LIES ALL LIES

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: May 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I would rather eat my own poop then to pay money for this game. It doesn't work with windows XP, no music, and half the sound effects are missing. If it's not in drive D it won't run at all. Also if you have a usb controller, guess what? You can't use it. That's right. Don't buy it, it doesn't matter if it's 20 cents... don't waste your money, try to bum a nickel off of someone, go to a cashier, get a quarter for your two dimes and a nickel, and buy a gum ball instead. You'll be more satisfied.

Wolfenstein

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

An old game for a game-challenged old timer. Just about my speed and a nice nostalgia trip.

a gamers masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game was very much worth my time and money. the first three episodes would be worth buying by themselves. the moments in which you escape castle wolfenstein, destroy hitler, and murder the angel of death, are some of the most memorable moments in gaming history.
you start off having just killed your gaurd in a nazi prison/castle, after ten levels of intense fighting and excitement, and after defeating hans grosse (the giant duel chaingun wielding nazi), you run outside and see the light of day, the green of a feild, and blue sky, for the first time. the game actually makes you feel like you are experiencing this. not to mention capturing the feeling with a cool video. the majestic relief and feeling of accomplishment in seeing outdoors (knowing you have finally escaped after seeing nothing but windowless brick, wood, and death) is unbeleivable.
later in the game you go after hitler himself, i will not go into description but let you see for yourself, needless to say it is quite the moment when you bring him down.
after this the missions, while still fun don't get me wrong, become no longer building like, but extremely maze like. therefore losing the effect that you are actually in a german base during WW II. the first thirty missions (three episodes) keep this up very well. the last thirty do not, but are still fun.
however, while i thought the peak of the game had come and gone with killing hitler at the end of episode 3, there was something much greater still in store: after beating the final three episodes, which were an entertaining slide down from that peak, i discovered that the "spear of destiny" game is on there as well. 20 more levels(roughly, there may be more) on a quest for the spear, involving some new animations, enviroments, and items coming to the final climax of going to hell (i think, or that's what it looks like anyway), hearing some deep voice say "do your worst human!", turning around to see the angel of death (i figured it was satan), and destroying it!!! AMAZING. after that is a wonderful post game text and still image wrap-up that leaves you feeling like you conquered the world. this game allows you to go back in time and destroy a big chunk of the evils you have been told about since child hood! BUY THIS GAME!!!
p.s. the graphics are definately not the best, cutting edge for the time though, you have to remember that this game came out in '92. they are completely acceptable though, and after getting used to them they hold kind of a sentimental value in retrospect. game contains plenty of action dispersed throughout roughly 80 levels!

ONE of the first 3D games-not to mention the First FPS game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wolfenstein 3D should be a well known games-should actually be more known than 007 Goldeneye 64,Should be more known than HALO-as its one of if not THE 1st First Person Shooter.The graphics are quite lame-but hey the 3D age had only just begun when this game came out!The music is what you would get in any game.
My brother used to have the original PC game that i played only once,But i later played the GBA port for like 10 minutes.But now i am getting "Return to Castle WOLFENSTEIN" on my XBox,though i do have a PS2 and GameCube-as the PS2 port is said to be horsekrap,and it ain`t out on GC-Plus the XBox version(which is also a port,it comes from the PC) is a great game PLUS has the original "Wolfenstein 3D" game inside after you beat it so i will manage to retain the classic game once and 4 all.
I am not as huge as FPS fan since GoldenEye as "Stealth" is my new faverite but i still play FPS games as 2nd faverite and am waiting for an XBox to arrive so i will be able to get a bathful of FPS games like HALO,Far Cry,Half Life,DOOM III and so on!
PS2 does not have any interesting FPS games,it has a couple but not many,i hate BLACK its just a Far Cry-wanna be-but falls flat on its face.
But anyways byebyebyebye now.

oldie but goodie

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the first computer game played by my son and myself. He was in Jurior high at the time. Just when they started coming out with how these games was harming our kids. They see more gore and death on TV. But the dogs part(shooting dogs), we've never have liked. But even at the jurior high level(duh) he knew that this was a game not really life . Big deal if the graphic isn't like todays standard. It is a fun old school game so you'll have to get the newer games for whats in the newer games.

The Black Sabbath of first person shooters

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Barring a few less popular (and less good) 3D action games before Wolf3D like the Catacombs series, this is the first FPS ever to grace the PC, which was release in like December 1991 or something like that. Its graphics suck for today's standards, and the gameplay is repetitive, but in 1992 it was pretty much the equivalent of what Half-Life was to gamers in 1998 and Far Cry is now, groundbreaking. You can get the shareware version free on Apogee1.com and probably the full version on abandonware or something. Also its really easy, I've heard people say that it's harder than Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (a very unknown and underrated 1993 FPS with the Wolf3D engine), but that's a bunch of bull. The SS (and the rest of the enemies) can't fire their machine guns if you continually pelt them with the pistol but machine gun toters in Blake Stone will continually shoot even if they're getting hit, making for some ultratense shootouts that rarely existed in Wolf3D. Also, let it be known that once you get the chaingun, you are virtually unstoppable (and you can get it on Floor 2...."if ya know where ta go!")

Having said all that, this game is good fun and also good for those who want to see where the seeds of such games as Half-Life were planted, but let it be known, that shooters in years following like Blake Stone and DOOM are much more challenging.....and funner.

****Also, this game shouldn't be rated Mature. The blood is very minimal and unrealistic, the rating is probably for all the Nazi swastikas and Hitler portraits on the castle walls.

It sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 43
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is stupid. It makes my stomach hurt to play it. It reminds me of some random Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer when the sun is setting sitting in some old dusty single-wide in Central Georgia right next to a cotton field with no one else there except some big fat nasty woman named Louise, and she's wearing some cloth black shorts and some nursing home looking t-shirt and flip-flops.

Take a trip in the time Machine

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, since this game is old, the graphics are Mud. But don't be turned away from this masterpiece just because of the graphics. It is a classic first person shooter (I think the very first one), and very fun. I really like it on GBA but now that I have my laptop its even better.

I have a problem with the rating of this game though, it's not even bad at all. An M-rated game would be Half-Life, not this. The blood is pixelated and unrealistic, and the game isn't even as bad as Doom. This game should be Teen, unless you are offended by Nazis or Pictures of Hitler/Nazi Parapheneilia on the wall.

You must play this if you like FPS's at all or would like to know their origin.

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