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If YOU want to play as FPS, don't waste your money...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 23
Date: March 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I really liked Return To Castle Wolfenstein, but didn't realize that the entire game is for online multiplayer crap... If you're looking for single player action, this sure as hell isn't it! Save your money...

Another overrated WWII Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: April 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just finished playing the single player demo and I was not impressed. This game is basically Medal of Honor with zombies. Medal of Honor was not a very good game, considering all the praise heaped upon it, and neither is this. At least Medal of Honor had some originality...

The two levels included in the demo were "escape from the castle" and "survive the catacombs." The castle level is okay, I guess. It's VERY dull and unimaginative, but you get to shoot Nazis - who doesn't like to do that? Next came the catacombs level. That level looked good at first; it's very creepy. I was thinking, "okay, this game is starting to get good." Then I saw the zombies. There are two kinds of zombies. One holds a shield in front of it as it walks. If you shoot it, the bullets bouce STRAIGHT BACK AT YOU! Even if you shoot around the shield, say, at the zombie's feet, the bullets still bounce back and hit you! How retarded were the people who designed this? But wait, it gets worse. The other kind of zombie has no shield. Wanna know what this zombie does? It shoots little skulls out at you. That's right, folks - tiny little ghost skulls that can fly around corners and kill you. Don't laugh. I'm not making this up.

I didn't just feel disapointed by this game, I felt insulted. I felt like the people who made it were mocking my intelligence. I was also rather shocked. I remember this being the big game that everyone was talking about back in '03. Now I play it and find it's quality to be that of one of those really bad value-priced games. I was actually thinking about buying it, but I certainly won't now. Thank god for demos.

Okay, here's a basic breakdown of the game:

GRAPHICS: Nothing special in this department. The graphics are definitely underwhelming, but they're not terrible. There are a few things that really stick out as poor worksmanship, though. One example is when the zombies die. They simply disappear, while a couple of little bones drop down. Yes, it looks VERY bad.

GAMEPLAY: Not fun. This game is way too linear. You have absolutly no choice about how you approach the missions. Killing the bad guys is a chore. The AI is crummy, and your guns are annoyingly innacurate.

STORY: Cool plot. Too bad it doesn't have a better game to go with it.

SINGLE PLAYER: yawn.

MULTIPLAYER: Don't know, I only played the single player. Everyone says it's good, but I like to enjoy games without having to deal with a bunch of @$$holes online. If you're the kind of gamer who just does muliplayer and never touches the single player missions, you might want to play this. But do so at your own risk.

If you know what's good for you, you'll stick to the original Wolfenstein. That's a great game. It represented the cutting edge when it came out. Of course games had come a long way since then by 2003, but you'd never know it by playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Its an OK game, I never really got into it though.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow, I thought this game would NEVER end. And that is not a good thing. Some levels were pretty fun, but for the most part it was very repititive, and downright frustrating at times.

The graphics in this game were pretty good. Definetely not up to the level of Quake 4 or Doom 3, but being though this is a pretty old game, that is acceptable. It ran fine on my A64 3400 /w ATI 800XL 256 MB card. I also have one Gig of PC3200 Ram. There were no slowdowns whatsoever, however I did notice that the game it self was kind of buggy. Sometimes if you load a game your enemies would seem to be stuck in an invisible box and they would not shoot or move towards you even though you were right in front of them. However you still could hurt them. (More on this in a moment)

The sound was OK. The background music often times became very annoying however. The sounds that were done best in this game were the sounds of the guns and the enemy chatter. The "sniper" rifle sounded like a sniper rifle and even though your German enemies spoke in English it was very clear that they had heavy German accents which was a pretty nice touch. It would be very LAME for a game to have Germans speaking as though they are from Alabama or New York.

The gameplay is what warranted my sub par review. The first few levels were kind of fun and the enemies were not cheap and/or not "impossible" to kill. However after getting to the zombie level, all of that changed. Having zombies in a video game is already played out, but add to the fact that these things were virtually impossible to kill without having to empty over 50 bullets in those things made this game very frustrating. THEY JUST DON'T DIE!!! This is when the game started to turn into a chore rather than just a fun game to play.

After I got by the Zombie level things started getting a little better again until I encountered more enemies that just wouldn't die even though I would empty an entire clip into them. These two enemies are the female whatever you call them and the Paratroopers. The female enemies are hard to kill because all they do is flip around all over the place while being able to get accurate shots on you. The Paratroopers just won't die unless you continuously shoot them with the Paratrooper rifle about 10 shots will do the trick. Four shots to their heads with the "sniper" rifle does nothing and they will continue shooting you even though 4 bullets just went through their head. Very unrealistic and frustrating.

Another frustrating thing about the gameplay is the ever annoying trigger points. You observe an area below you and make sure that no enemies are hiding in the corners or behind pillars, but as soon as you jump down, enemies magically appear out of nowhere. Resulting in you having to constantly Save and reload your game to try again.

In regards to the save/load feature for some reason in the final levels, the Load feature no longer worked unless I loaded a game I saved 2 months ago first. If I didn't do this, then reloading a recent save game would result in the game locking, and kicking me back out to Windows. I tried the "repair" feature and even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but it didn't help. This really made the last few levels very frustrating beacuse after I got killed I would have to load an older save game before I could load the one I wanted to in the first place.

I thought this game would never end and the game just dragged on and on and on and on and on and on. Ammo was very scarce in the last few levels and yet the game makes you fight more yep, you guessed it, ZOMBIES. Whoopie. "Hey look at me I'm a zombie, and you can't kill me because you have to save your ammo for the final boss" LAME!!! Luckily I had some dynamite and was able to blow many of them to bits without wasting my ammo, and I needed every last bit of ammo I had left for the final boss.

The final boss fight was rather dissapointing as well. It was more cheesy than difficult. I finished the game last night and will not be playing it again. And since the load game feature does no seem to want to work anymore, I may end up uninstalling the whole game off my PC.

The original wolfenstein at the time was a very fun game to play. This game was a nice upgrade to that series graphically and sound wise, but to me it wasn't really that fun overall. May be partly due to the fact that I HATE hate seeing zombies in video games that just don't die and cheesy AI.

Excellinent first person shotter!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good first person shooter with a good but not to thought out but good storyline. Every level fits in with it very good and your fighting because of the story line in a way. For the person who installed it and said its only multiplayer, not true. Its multiplayer AND singal player one of the disks is multiplayer and the other is singal player. The graphics are good but really not the best kinda wierd at parts (like one time a zombie walked threw a soldier and then the zombie blew up. Whats that?) The controls are hard to get used to be when you do its o.k. The games is really difficult at parts especially if you just kick down a door throw a gernade in and starts shootin (sometimes thats the funniest though ;)) Theres a huge selection of weapons includeding potato bashers (a type of gernade), dynamite (which is really neat i threw it on the floor below me and the floor i was on blew up!) a luger (pistol), tommy gun, flamthrower, and lots lots more. The enemys are neat included german soldiers zombies (kinda freak me out since they eat people...) and x mutants (they are creepy too). The zombies come in place when you come in the catacombes. They will surprise you by just bursting out of walls and floors which catchs you off guard especially when they come from behind. You can sometimes know theyre comeing when you hear a german soldier shoot, scream, then here flesh being eaten (its kinda gross if your up close and see it) The x mutants are german mutations by the ss division (which IS a real division of the (...) army and DID do odd eqperiments on people but never made mutants) Which are locked in deep catacombs and come out and well are nearly impossible to beat. All in all i give it a 8/10. Its pretty good but perhaps to difficult at parts and not the best graphics.

one of the best on-line game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought it for online playing.
even thought it is a pretty old game, it is still so much fun!!
I love this

simply amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: February 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has some points that makes it superior to other PC first-person shooters.
The most amazing thing about the game is perhaps music surrounding. It is superb! The themes greatly
contribute to the atmosphere of the game.
The second point is a good storyline. Sometimes you get missions which could exist in reality. That's amazing, because
it makes you feel as if strange personages you read about in Nazi's memoirs came to life, and you may participate in real events!
The third amazing feature is graphics. The game is aesthetically beautiful, full of colourful landscapes and ancient castles.

Remarkable. Absolutely remarkable.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've never had much use for WWII games. Call of Duty, Medal of Honor...they all looked the same to me. So when the word got out that Return to Castle Wolfenstein was making its big FPS return -- and that you'd be facing enemies other than Nazis only 20% of the time -- I wasn't impressed.

Well, who knew shooting down Nazi scum would be so much fun?

That's right, I finally figured out what all you WWII-ers have known all along; that until we get Imperial Stormtroopers to mow down, the Nazis will just have to do. And it's such a visceral rush, cutting down these goose-stepping murderous fanatics, that you won't really mind that other twenty percent of the time when you're not facing them. Oh sure, fighting the undead or '40s-era cyborgs each have their own challenges, but it's those Nazis most in the need of killin'.

The game's graphics are amazingly lifelike. Grey Matter -- the development studio -- reportedly took hundreds of research photographs while in Eastern Europe, and it shows. The textures are incredibly real, and the Nazi soldiers even have different types of uniforms and decorations; some of them are even wounded, with bloody bandages.

The sounds are so realistic, so layered, you'd think they were first recorded during WWII itself. Machine-gun fire, grenade explosions, the whoosh of flamethrowers...even the sound of eating food isn't just genuine, it evokes a reaction in you. Just listen to the sound of BJ eating a hot meal and tell me your own throat doesn't work on reflex.

But the story behind the game? Well, it's just outstanding.

In 1943, over a year before the Allies made the landing at Normandy Beach, there was a secret, joint-intelligence venture between the U.S. and Britain known as the OSA, or the Office of Secret Actions. Your character, U.S. Army Ranger Pvt. BJ Blazkowicz, is one of the OSA's operatives, who stumbles on a horrific plot being carried out by the SS Paranormal Division. They intend to use Nazi knowledge of the occult, robotics, and chemical warfare to spell ultimate doom for the Allies, and total victory for the Third Reich. I won't give away the whole plot, but let's just say that finding out how all these puzzle pieces fit together is just part of the fun.

Your objectives can vary wildly from one mission to another. For instance: In one, you must sneak into a secret Nazi installation without setting off any alarms. Once inside, you must scuttle a chemical warhead aimed at London and fight your way back out again. After that, you sabotage a Nazi radar installation, before finally reaching an airstrip and stealing an experimental rocket-plane. And that's all just in one mission out of the seven you'll be playing. Good times, folks. Other missions take place in such different locales as another occupied village in the dead of winter, dusty tombs infested with both Nazis and the undead alike, a half-demolished city that's just undergone 48 straight hours of Allied bombing, and a secret lab in the frozen wastelands of Norway.

While most of the weapons are, I'm sure, completely faithful recreations of what was being used by both sides at the time -- the MP40 and the Sten are two such examples -- the others are extrapolations of how such weapons could've been developed, like the Venom or the Tesla. Hell; this is also the first time I've ever played a game that gave me a CHOICE of sniper rifles. The Mauser, Snooper, and FG42 each have their own unique pros and cons that make them ideally suited to their roles.

One of the most compelling things about this game, though, is that it makes you wonder just HOW MUCH of all this was real? Was there really an OSA? Was there a real Kreisau Circle (the anti-Nazi German resistance in the game)? Did Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler -- both madmen, to be sure -- really look into such concepts as the occult or human experimentation as part of the war effort? Did the Reich really have an SS Paranormal Division? And did they really train women to be used as commandos?

Nevertheless, this game is worth it. It's fun, it's challenging, it makes you think, and it makes you feel so much better about yourself by putting hot lead into the most evil bunch of knuckle-dragging mass murderers this planet's come up with yet.

Now go give Jerry what-for!!

DONT listen to the review right below mine

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: July 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a briliant game, and its not just online multiplayer. the online part is an add on. There is a very big single player game called.....return to castle wolfenstein. lol. the online game is enemy territory. oh yeah, and i got this game at target for 5 bucks! you cant beat that. you just cant.

Enemy Territory is the Game to Play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The real fun in this game is Enemy Territory--the add-on to this edition. Each map contains a series of objectives that the offense (Axis or Allies) must achieve. The defense (Allies or Axis) must defend those objectives within a certain amount of time. It is much like Counter-Strike, in which the T's (offense) must plant the C4 bomb in more than one place, and the Counter-Terrorists (defense) must prevent the plant and/or diffuse the C4.

Independently, the add-ons of the enhanced engineer and the covert ops make this game very interesting.

so realistic its scary

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is the most realistic ive played in a long time, well all time. The story line is amazing. you can pick chairs up and throw them at people. in each level there are secret places containing medic kits, ammo, etc. the AI is smart too. i went through a door and was being shot and i couldnt find the guy. he was hiding on the wall next to the door and shooting me from behind. multi player.... well ya. it sucks. the guns are unrealistic and i still cant figure out the plot of building towers and stuff. and an added dum part in multi is that people just stand around and shoot mortars everywhere. o yeah i accidentally killed one of my guys with a nade and got banned from the server. what is that??? the single player makes up for it though. overall 4.7/5

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