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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.

The Pleasures of Nostalgia
I remember I was 8 years old, when I first played Wolfenstein 3D. It was an absolutely revolutionary game, and I didn't even realized it. I just saw it as an addictive and very fun game. Nobody had seen anything like Wolf before. The idea of a 1st-person shooter caused the gaming world to change forever. Id Software and Apogee released Wolf in 1992 and it was the most talked-about game and dare-I-say interactive entertainment event of that year. After Wolf came Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and the rest is history. This game spawned a whole genre of games! There, now that I have explained the history of Wolf as a revolution, people who haven't even heard of this game (and there are a lot of them) will realize the importance of this game not just as a game, but as an event in the history of entertainment media that changed it...forever.

Wolfenstein tells the story of B. J. Bloczovics. I am not sure if I spelled his name right. B. J. is an allied spy inside a castle called Wolfenstein. He has various missions which are divided into episodes of which there is a total of 6. In these episodes, B.J. fights his way through Nazi installations trying to destroy their plans of chemical war and victory in WW2 through cloned soldiers. The game follows a simple kill baddies, find keys, find exit, and get the hell out formula. The enemies B. J. faces are various Nazi and SS soldiers. At the end of each episode B. J. has to fight a boss. The boss at the end of the third episode by the way, is Hitler himself. The AI isn't very good, but hey, the game is extremely exciting anyway. This game was the first to give people adrenaline rushes. There are only 3 guns in the game, all of them use the same type of ammo. You can't jump, look up or down, or any of the things one can do in modern shooters. With all of its shortcomings, it is nevertheless, a very fun game.

The game graphics are quite simplistic. The graphics are very simple and with today's standard's: terrible. The roofs and floors in the setting are always grey. The walls of installations are repetitiously colored. Here and there, one finds portraits of Hitler, Swastica flags, skeletons in cages, blood, etc. on the walls. The animation is okay, but again, one cannot even compare Wolf's graphics with those of todays games.

The sounds are okay too. The Nazis say the same things like: Achtung!, Halt!, etc. over and over again. The sound of doors opening and guns firing are still pretty cool.

If you haven't played Wolfenstein 3D yet, buy this and enjoy. If you played it as a youth and don't have it anymore, you may want to buy this and experience some nostalgic pleasure.

the black sabbath of first person shooters
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.