Return to Castle Wolfenstein Reviews

Quaint grafix with the promise of HOURS of edge-of-the-seat excitement!!!

best of the best, it's true classic!

Legendary legend and classical classic

A forgettable remake of a remake. The real hero of the day back then was Metal of Honor: Allied Assault, At least with that game the Germans spoke German! At first I was sold on the idea of a Wolfenstein update and it delivered....back in the day...However!...I did always find it cheesy and awkward that the so-called Nationalist Party Germans, SS, and all applicable Nazi agencies only spoke English with a German accent! Even the innocent German ladies in this remake of a remake could only cower and cry out once in English! WTF? Fast forward 24+ years and I can honestly say that this is a dated, guilty pleasure of a video game. A cheap Steam purchase that serves it's purpose at discount price! Talk about Bargain! When Return to Castle Wolfenstein was first released I liked the storyline and the Kinky girl assassins. Those gals are like Cat Woman Nazis with guns instead of whips! The introduction of the silenced machine gun was cool as well the grenades....back the day....but these days the grenade controls and overall interface in Return to Castle Wolfenstein are dated and rather disappointing. At least Metal of Honor: Allied Assault had real German enemies that spoke German! The supernatural elements of Wolfenstein are always welcome, but by all means at least have the Germans speak German in an American FPS action-infiltration (post Metal Gear:Solid mind you!) These days somehow the B.J. Blackowitz in Return to Castle Wolfenstein looks like a dusty Ben Affleck This was something I observed after 24+ years later, right there on the Main Menu! This is sorta' weird to me....so weird!!!!!....there's really not much here folks, pick up Spear of Destiny, or Wolfenstein 3-D and roll the dice on history. Are you tough enough to beat Hitler and the SS as an American Commando? You won't be able to answer that question very much here. Instead you will get a lesson in the awkward pre-steam FPS years just before Half Life 2. The mouse-keyboard AWSDA system was still developing. This game wastes controls on being able to look but NOT aim your weapon around the corner. Weird! Awkward! Totally forgettable! If you want a challenge that's worthy of experience, look elsewhere.

This is a really awesome game that went almost completely unnoticed when it came out because Halo 1 released six days before it and made all other shooters look like lame garbage by comparison. I'm not saying this game is better or even as good as Halo, but I am saying, if you've never played it, but you enjoyed other shooters of the era, you're missing out. This game is at the pinnacle of the shooter formula that existed before Halo completely changed the genre.

ok so uhm, the game starts rly good, fun to play, stealth and all, and then the uber enemies come in and its pure hell and they beam you down in under 1 second full hp, and then the final boss comes out and it doesnt deal a singular hit point of damage as you kill it in 1 minute. amazing.

Came back to this after years and it still holds up. The atmosphere, the pacing, the mix of WW2 grit and weird occult stuff just works. Some levels are a bit rough by today’s standards but the gunplay and level design are surprisingly tight. A real classic and honestly still more fun than a lot of modern shooters.

Esse jogo me dá uma bela de uma nostalgia. Lembro de ver meu pai zerando quando eu nem PC tinha. Peguei pra jogar agora depois de anos e me diverti da mesma forma que antigamente. É um clássico. Pontos negativos: Assim como a maioria dos jogos antigos disponíveis na Steam, precisei baixar arquivos por fora para fazer o jogo funcionar e devo ter crashado umas 30 vezes durante a campanha inteira. Tirando isso tive problemas com o Save do game (que NUNCA voltava no ponto exato que eu salvava e eu precisava dar load várias vezes pra voltar quando morria).

Brilliant story, great Gun play would highly recommend no complaints.

Still a lot of fun and pretty cool. I wish this would get a remaster/remake, tho ala the recent Doom+Doom II & Heretic+Hexen, because the keyboard and mouse setup is cumbersome to play. All in all, this is a worthy sequel to Wolfenstein 3D and a nice step forward that led to the greatest Wolfenstein game of all-time, the 2009 one, which is basically abandonware at this point.