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Summary: It sucks
Review: 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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Summary: Take a trip in the time Machine
Review: 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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Summary: The best game of it's time, and best today
Review: 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.
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Summary: What a piece of junk
Review: Why do they list "windows ME/XP" as a valid OS on the box? I called tech support after the sounds didn't work and the guy says it was NOT DESIGNED to work on ME/XP even though it says so on the box. Under Windows 95 the game freezes, and under MS-DOS mode in Win95 there is no sound whatsoever. If you have an old 486 with DOS it might work... oh wait you need to have Windows 95 to install it. To make a long story short they took an old DOS version and did NOTHING WHATSOEVER to change,re-program, or do anything. Why didn't they try to modify the game like on the Mac? we will never know.
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Summary: Wolfenstein 3D
Review: 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.
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Summary: WOW!!! AMAAZING!! UNBELIEVEABLE!! 3-D!!
Review: Wolfenstein 3-D truly raises the bar for the generation of 3-D first person shooters, it's the best game in the world! Graphically, it'lll blow you away. It features up to a mind boddling amount of 256 colors, can you believe it???!!!?!?!?!?!? 256 colors!!! NOW THAT IS A LOT!!! THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!!! YOU WILL SCREAM WHEN YOU SEE THIS GRAPHICS, AND POSSIBLY FAINT!!! Also, all rooms are joined together within' 90 degreees!!!! Can you believe it? 90! Not 10, not 5, not 50, not 30, not 60, 90!!! With each one having a different texture, at times! And also, it features certain 3-D objects! With realistic intense gorry and visual effects, professionaly composed music, sound blasting sound effects, and over 6 missions of blowing up nazis, evil scientists, mutated dogs, and more! This is by far the most impressive first person shooter to exist on the planet earth! And it requires a musucular 286 processor with 640 kilobytes of ram, with MS-DOS, version 5.0. WOW. On my 386 processor with 2 megabytes of ram, the game is amazing. My dad just upgraded to a 486 processor with 4 megabytes of ram, and recently upgraded to 8 MEGABYTES OF RAM!! And it loads the game within guess how many seconds? 8!!! Isn't that fast? And this game is only possibly powered elsewhere by a game boy system......I strongly suggest this game for the tech-geeks around....
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Summary: Revolution
Review: Wolfenstein 3-D: The first TRUE first person shooters. Designed by, the now well known, ID software back in "92. This once brilliant game reshaped the way we look at video games today. Had this game not been made, we may not of had todays shooters like Half-Life and Perfect Dark. What would we do then? Though this is a revolutionary game, it doesn't hold up well by today's standards. Cartoonish graphics and low-quality sound/music make this title not the best for those who play games because the look detailed. However, if you are a TRUE gamer, and know TRUE quality, you have found your game. The artificial inteligence is poor, the map size and detail is poor. The sprites, with the exception of guards, are one sided and don't animate, but they go well with the overall atmosphere. I, personally, own a copy of this title, and play it frequently. I dare say this game will never get 'old'.
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Summary: Revolution
Review: Wolfenstein 3-D: The first TRUE first person shooters. Designed by, the now well known, ID software back in "92. This once brilliant game reshaped the way we look at video games today. Had this game not been made, we may not of had todays shooters like Half-Life and Perfect Dark. What would we do then? Though this is a revolutionary game, it doesn't hold up well by today's standards. Cartoonish graphics and low-quality sound/music make this title not the best for those who play games because the look detailed. However, if you are a TRUE gamer, and know TRUE quality, you have found your game. The artificial inteligence is poor, the map size and detail is poor. The sprites, with the exception of guards, are one sided and don't animate, but they go well with the overall atmosphere. I, personally, own a copy of this title, and play it frequently. I dare say this game will never get 'old'.
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Summary: Noplex
Review: 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 =\
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Summary: You Gotta Love the Classics
Review: 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.
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