| | |  | | Home » Wolfenstein | | | | | | | Description: | | Classic Wolfenstein multiplayer with an occult twist reminiscent of the heart-pounding and award winning class and objective based multiplayer of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Amazing enemies the Nazis throw at you next as they bring their dark fantasies to life. Epic combat moments that unfold in movie-like action sequences as you fight to prevent the Nazis from unleashing the power of the Black Sun, a war-ending weapon of supernatural mass destruction. Unique environments overlapping this world and the Veil, a world between our reality and the occult underworld that offers you combat advantages but also new supernatural threats. The ability to battle with a diverse collection supernatural 'Veil Powers,' as well as Allied and Axis conventional weapons, all up-gradable via an in-game black market. | | | Features: | |
• Classic Wolfenstein multiplayer with an occult twist reminiscent of the heart-pounding and award winning class and objective based multiplayer of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
• Amazing enemies the Nazis throw at you next as they bring their dark fantasies to life.
• Epic combat moments that unfold in movie-like action sequences as you fight to prevent the Nazis from unleashing the power of the Black Sun, a war-ending weapon of supernatural mass destruction.
• Unique environments overlapping this world and the Veil, a world between our reality and the occult underworld that offers you combat advantages but also new supernatural threats.
• The ability to battle with a diverse collection supernatural 'Veil Powers,' as well as Allied and Axis conventional weapons, all upgradable via an in-game black market.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.21 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Release Date:
| August 18, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 103 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows 7 | | Media:
| DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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29 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Great Single Player Experience!Oct 04, 2009
By GeeBee
My review is for the single player aspect of the game and in this regard this is the most fun I've had with a PC FPS in a while. I'm not a big fan of the military shooters i.e., Call of Duty, etc., just to give you an idea of my taste in games. So don't buy this game expecting a realistic military style shooter. However if the mixture of tackling evil Nazi's, the occult and using special powers combined with standard weapons sounds good to you then you will probably like this game.
Many fans of Return to Castle Wolfenstein have slammed this game and it's usually in regard to the multiplayer which I'm not writing about here. But if I were to compare the single player aspect of the two games this new installment wins hands down in my opinion. The hub style of design (which developer Raven excels in) makes the game feel less linear than just going from level 1 to level 2 and so on. Finding treasure and gold are still there (as it has been since the beginning of the franchise) but now it has a purpose in that it's used for buying weapon upgrades. The missions are varied and fun and the shooting mechanics of the game are spot on. The weapon sounds are very satisfying as well. The Veil (occult) Powers add a whole new aspect of gameplay to the franchise and I enjoyed playing with them in combination with the standard weapons, makes a nice one, two punch so to speak. I also enjoyed the occult style enemies that are mixed in with the standard Nazi fare. It kept things interesting. And the locales of the missions were nice and varied as well.
As for the graphics I'm using a 9800GT with everything turned up all the way and I think it looks fantastic contrary to what some have said. Who cares if this is an older engine, it's what you do with it and Raven has done a bang up job. I love the artwork and the textures are beautiful. This game has a very clean, vivid look to it as opposed to a lot of games that use tons of bloom effects and have a very saturated, blurry look to them. I've had zero technical issues with the game and I'm on my second play through.
Nothing is perfect and if I had to say anything derogatory about the game it would be that this game was clearly developed for consoles first and PC's second. Not being able to save whenever you want is standard issue for PC games and this game retains the checkpoint system of it's console counterpart. Also there aren't near enough ways to tweak the video settings as there should be. I really would have liked a contrast and gamma setting. In the gameplay department I always found it funny that NPC's would have conversations about you like you weren't there even though you're standing right next to them. But don't get me wrong, none of these issues spoil the game. They just bear mentioning.
Amazon is currently selling this game so cheap I think it's a no-brainer. For fans of single player FPS's I say buy it!
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 More fun the more you playSep 24, 2009
By Cheezr
I have to add this review as my original review was not as flattering and i have changed my mind (or lost it?)
But seriously the more i play Wolfy, the more i like it. The initial 10% of the game
is awkward until you are able to purchase some weapon upgrades which relieves
their clumsiness. The plot is fun and the gameplay is fun. there is no platforming or
puzzle solving but searching for gold and intel is pretty much as good.
Not having played any of the previous Wolfs I had no expecatations and found
the game a fun single player first person shooter, if you are looking for more than that
well YMMV!
I dinged one star off because 1) the save files can not be backed up or moved and
2) the game has crashed on me several times (but i never lost any progress or goodies).
64 of 82 found the following review helpful:
 Short, Lacks Polish, Multiplayer is BadAug 19, 2009
By J. V. Spirig
"JVS"
I have loved the Wolfenstein series since I first played the original back in 1992. The new game, Wolfenstein, is a standout amongst other great titles in that it lacks polish, has below-average graphics, and a multiplayer mode that feels more like Goldeneye than Enemy Territory.
Graphics:
The graphics seems like an enchancement to the 2001 Return to Castle Wolfenstein release as opposed to a generational improvement one might expect from the seven plus years since the last episode was released. Uniforms and clothing move awkwardly on the models and faces appear to have 2-3 expressions per model. Anti-aliasing seems to be unavailable from the options menu and the graphical presentation suffers for it. Finally, the cutscenes are presented in a surprisingly low quality mode. In RTCW cutscenes were rendered in the resolution setting of the game mode. Mysteriously, Wolfenstein seems to step down your quality settings by a large degree to present the cutscenes.
Having recently played through Doom 3 again, I would give that title the edge on graphical presentation. One positive note is the quality of the effect as you slip in and out of "the veil."
Overall: 4/10 - Below Average for bad cutscenes, lack of AA, lack of improvement
Audio:
The 5.1 and 7.1 modes are great. Sound effect quality is lacking. Guns have a "far away" and a "next to your head" sound, with not much in between. There are not many sound effects for ricochets, stuff hitting different surfaces, etc. While not wholly terrible, it lacks the polish of titles with great sound like Far Cry 2 or Fallout 3.
Overall: 7/10 - Slightly above average for quality of 5.1/7.1
Gameplay:
This is a major sticking point with me. In RTCW and Enemy Territory, the character seemed to move fluidly around the environment. Wolfenstein has the same FPS feel as the previous titles, but the character transitions between weapons, jumps, crouches, etc in a more awkward manner. If you wish to test this, try running and then shooting. It feels as if your character runs into a wall and a bullet suddently flies out.
Overall: 6/10 - Serviceable gameplay, but nothing exceptional
Multiplayer:
Wow, this was the worst disappointment. If you played Enemy Territory from RTCW you know what good multiplayer is. Multiplayer mode in Wolfenstein is BAD. If you played Goldeneye in 1995 then you have played Wolfenstein multiplayer. You pick a gun, pick a class (that barely seems to matter), then you go to a tiny map where people with life bars over their head are shooting you while permastrafing. There is very little strategy, the graphical presentation is laggy (even with 100fps and 40ms ping), and the maps are basically big squares with objectives in the middle. A big step backwards with absolutely no improvements since WolfET came out 7 years ago.
Overall: 1/10 - I gave it one point because it worked. Other than that I wont even load the multplayer mode again
Fun:
The single player mode is somewhat entertaining because they continue along the lines of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW). Story elements are presented much in the same manner to RTCW, cutscenes interspersed during and in between core missions. The voice acting is good, but the story is nearly identical to RTCW. After 4 hours of gameplay you are likely to have completed nearly half the game. (there is a convenient slider bar to notify you of this every time you check your inventory). The multiplayer mode is so awful that there is limited replayability. The entire thing feels like a bad console port.
Overall: 5/10 for good story, good voice acting, but the rest is humdrum.
FINAL SCORE: 4.6/10
I do not recommend this game and actually feel somewhat cheated given that I pre-paid $50 for this three months ago. Is a 8-10 hour single player campaign and 12 poorly designed multiplayer maps worth 50$?
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
What a wonderful gameOct 23, 2010
By Juan Pablo Forero
This is a review for the single player only: First of all i have played many First shooter games for many years, like the first Wolfenstein, Doom, Half life 1 and 2 (love them) and episode 1 and 2, Return to castle wolfenstein, Crysis, Medal of honor series, battlefield series, and many more, i just love FPS, i have to say that this game for me has been the most rewarding experience in many years. I have had no issues whatsoever in the single player, no crashes at all.
The game has so many things to do and so much variety you don't get bored at all. You have special powers and you can search for gold to improve your powers or your normal weapons, but choose wisely because there is not enough for all. The enemies are intelligent (a little slow sometimes, thats true), but they hide from you and attack from corners or hideouts. I have no problems finding ammo so thats good because you need a lot of it because they are many many enemies to attack. But whats makes this game so good is that you play a long part of the game in one city, but everytime you cross from one part of town to the other, new enemies appear, and if you have new powers, they also have new ways to stop you, for example so kind of armors, so you cannot never get bored, you always have something to do. If you are in a mission in the city, expect to find stronger resistence.
The guide is very simple and lets you know where you have to go everytime, and sometimes you can choose what mission to do first, so the compass tells you where to go. Thats very good because in other games i have played you can spend a lot of time just finding your way with no one to kill. If you don't go where the compass and go to other part of town, you will also find enemies doing patrols.
Other thing i like a lot is that you have to find not only gold hiding in all the missions, but also some special books that give you more powers (i am not going to talk about the powers, because is nice to see it for yourself) and some documents that tells you about the story that is going on, and also sometimes opens you new posibilities of improving your normal weapons.
As i tell you, new enemies appear and they become stronger and harder as you advance in the game. I have played this game twice (now im playing it again) in different leves and what its seems to be different is the amount of enemies. I hate when the harder part means you have less ammo, here thats not the case, i have plenty of ammo but lots and lots of resistence.
Yes, the game sometimes in the missions is linear but i didn't find it boring as i have said, in fact is better to know where to go but i repeat, that doesn't make the game boring at all, you have to go to different scenarios that are very entertaining.
Other good thing, the load times are fast as hell, you died and in seconds you start again. Some people will find annoying that you can't save whenever you want, but the saving system is extremely good, and it saves a lot, and always before a hard part. If you died and have to repeat a part, it won't be a very long sequence so don't worry. I fact, sometimes is better not to have to worry to save because the games takes good care of it.
I think thats all, but expect to see many good things i have not say because i don't want to spoil the game, they are many nices suprises, especially with the special powers you have, something a little similar to Crysis but different powers.
I haven't played the multiplayer version but i have no need, the single player is so complete and takes so long you just want to play it again when you finish. The first time i finish it i felt sad that it had ended, its a great game.
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
It was funAug 21, 2009
By Mark A. Murfin III
This is not a great game. It is a good game, and it is certainly fun, and has a few moments of awesomeness. It stays true to its Wolfenstein roots, so if you're a fan of the rest of the games, you'll enjoy this game. If you've never played a Wolfenstein game, you should definitely pick this up! Halo isn't out, and are you really going to play Madden (I didn't think so, sports games suck), so this is a perfect filler game.
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