Wolfenstein 3D

released on May 05, 1992

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter presented with rudimentary 3D graphics and a follow-up to the top-down infiltration game Castle Wolfenstein. The game is broken up into levels, each of which is a flat plane divided into areas and rooms by a grid-based pattern of walls and doors, all of equal height. Each level is themed after Nazi bunkers and buildings. To finish a level, the player must traverse through the area to reach an elevator. Levels are grouped together into named episodes, with the final level focusing on a boss fight with a particularly difficult enemy. While traversing the levels, the player must fight Nazi guards and soldiers, dogs, and other enemies while managing supplies of ammunition and health. While the name was kept the same as the original release, this and future releases of the game came with the base campaign and the Nocturnal Missions expansion campaign together.


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It's insane to me that this game released, singlehandedly defined the FPS genre, and then a year later the same dev team released Doom which is an upgrade to this game in literally every way. Then 3 years after Doom they released Quake. Innovation after innovation after innovation. This game is nigh unplayable now, but it's probably fire on the computers at the library though.

A grandaddy of FPS, really set the template for so much that came after it. Remains super fun to play and shoot up Nazis. The "classic" dream levels in The New Order referencing it were a neat easter egg.

This is the first game I've ever played in my life (along with The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing). I was not more than 2 years old when my father taught me how to play on a PC, back there it had Windows 95 and 4MB RAM. Since then I became a gamer, the graphics back there fascinated me and I started to get hooked on computer games.

When I bought this game on Steam and returned to play it, Wolfenstein 3D brought me immediately a huge nostalgia. I like Old School games and this is one of my favorites for personal reasons.

Its whatever in my opinion. I understand its significane, and think its well designed and fun; just not "perfect." As well compared to other games of the time this does not age as well. Overall, not great, not bad, worth a playthrough just for the experience.

Important game for history, not that fun to revisit. my opinion on old fps games such as this don't have a lot of variance.