The Doomed Dog Wolfenstein

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00:00:00Hey everyone, it's the Doom Dog. So, Nazis. Do you remember a more innocent time when that word

00:00:12meant something before the word was so overused to describe everyone right of Joseph Stalin

00:00:19to the point where it's completely lost its original meaning and weight?

00:00:25Developers used to be able to put Nazis in their games without having to side-eye it and wonder

00:00:32if it was some poorly thought out political commentary based on a terrible and warped

00:00:38understanding of modern politics. Nazis could just be the bad guys that were up to some weird

00:00:45fucked up shit and nothing more. As it was for the Allied propaganda movies at the time of World War

00:00:53II itself right up to in or around the late 2000s it seems. Today we are going back to that

00:01:03time

00:01:03specifically taking a look at the 2009 Wolfenstein game from Raven Software. Developed for the PlayStation

00:01:113, Xbox 360, and PC, and was one of the last games Raven did before they were banished forever

00:01:19to the Codmines. Having them do nothing but be a support dev for that series is a sad waste of

00:01:28the

00:01:29talents that gave us such excellent games as Star Wars Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, and Jedi Academy,

00:01:36as well as Hexen, Hexen 2, Heretic, Heretic 2, and Soldier of Fortune. Does Wolfenstein live up to that

00:01:45legacy? Let's find out. Released on August 18, 2009, this would be the last id Software related game to be

00:01:55published by Activision before id Software was purchased by ZeniMax, the Wolfenstein IP being part of that

00:02:04purchase as well. This would also end the longest standing and most fruitful of relationships between

00:02:13id Software and Raven, where Raven would develop many games using id Software engines as well as sequels

00:02:22to id Software games. Raven was a top-tier FPS developer in their own right at the time. Wolfenstein

00:02:292009 was also one of the games to be developed for id Tech 4, the Doom 3 engine, the same

00:02:35engine used for

00:02:36Quake 4, Prey 2006, and enemy territory, Quake Wars. Raven would make a number of improvements to the

00:02:44engine's capabilities such as soft shadows, post-processing effects, depth of field, and adding

00:02:51the Havoc physics engine to it that was so popular at the time. Not much outside of this is broadly

00:02:59known

00:02:59about the development of the game, however, usually discussion of its development boils down to it

00:03:07was marketed poorly and it flopped financially selling 100k copies in the first month after release.

00:03:15There's a number of factors as to why. During the 6th generation and early 7th generation of consoles,

00:03:22we had an onslaught of World War 2 themed games and people were seemingly burnt out on the setting

00:03:28at the time. The game could have used a subtitle to help differentiate it from Wolfenstein 3D and

00:03:34Return to Castle Wolfenstein before it. Just calling it Wolfenstein makes it sound a little uninspired.

00:03:41It also released in a year that was crampacked full of excellent games such as Modern Warfare 2,

00:03:50Uncharted 2, Infamous, Resident Evil 5, and Batman Arkham Asylum. You had to do something special to

00:03:58stand out with competition that stiff. All of these ultimately led to poor sales. Beyond these reasons,

00:04:06you cannot buy the game anymore. After Bethesda acquired the license to the IP and set about

00:04:14making the machine games entries in the series, it was delisted from Steam and other digital platforms.

00:04:21The Xbox 360 port is not backwards compatible with modern hardware. If you want to play it, you have to

00:04:29seek out a used copy of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, or PC, the PC version seemingly having no problem

00:04:38running on modern rigs, thankfully. The game starts off on the Nazi warship, the Tirpitz, off the coast

00:04:46of England. The Nazis in this game speak English with German accent. For the player's sake, one of them

00:04:52is warning another about a spy on board the ship. The man he's speaking to turns out to be BJ

00:04:59Blazkowicz.

00:05:00Wait, why is his hair black? It's never been black before or since. The Nazis wind up attacking him. BJ

00:05:11hides himself

00:05:12behind a metal door while the Nazis hop on a mounted turret to shoot at him. I have to call

00:05:18bullshit on

00:05:19this. It seems to me that the probability of the mounted gun not ripping through the door and killing

00:05:28BJ is rather slim. Anyway, BJ does get caught shortly after that. One of the Nazis asks about what is

00:05:38in his

00:05:38pocket. BJ pulls the object out. They think it's a bomb. They open fire and it lets out a blast

00:05:46of energy

00:05:47of some kind that stops all the bullets and reduces all of them to skeletons. BJ escapes on the plane

00:05:56as things on the boat start to blow up. After this, we see BJ in the OSA office and oh

00:06:03hey,

00:06:04these two guys are from the previous game return to Castle Wolfenstein. That's some nice continuity.

00:06:09They speak to BJ and congratulate him on good work on board the Tirpitz. It is now at the bottom

00:06:18of the

00:06:18ocean. As for the medallion, they have specialists studying the thing. It is an ancient device from a

00:06:27clan of mystics called the Black Sun. The Black Sun is a symbol that is commonly used by the Nazis

00:06:34during

00:06:35World War II, but its origins date back to the Iron Age of Europe. The Nazis were heavily into the

00:06:42occult.

00:06:43They were not Christians, as is often believed. Anyway, this agent group was killed off by some

00:06:49cataclysmic event long ago. The Black Sun symbol in the game was adopted by the Thule Society, which high

00:06:58ranking Nazis in the SS Paranormal Division, featured so prominently in Return to Castle Wolfenstein,

00:07:04are a part of. In real life, the Thule Society were an occult group that operated in Germany in the

00:07:11late

00:07:121800s and early 1900s. They dissolved in 1925, but high ranking members were in contact with high

00:07:21ranking members of the Nazi party. They served as occult advisors, essentially. Enough with the history

00:07:27lessons, let's get back to the game. The medallion contains crystals that can only be mined in one

00:07:33place in the world, a town called Eisenstadt in Germany. There is a resistance group operating in

00:07:39the town called the Kreishaus Circle, who takes its name from a similar group that operated in Germany from

00:07:451940 to 1944. They were in contact with BJ in return to Castle Wolfenstein. Once again, I do appreciate

00:07:55the continuity. If you know this series, you know they carry on into the machine game entries as well,

00:08:02where they started operating in the United States. The Nazi forces occupying Eisenstadt

00:08:09are led by a man named General Zeta. They do not know what is going on there, and that is

00:08:18one thing BJ

00:08:19is going to have to figure out. BJ is to go there, find out what Zeta is doing, and learn

00:08:26more about the

00:08:26medallion. He is to meet up with the Kreishaus Circle, and he is to head there immediately. He is to

00:08:34meet up

00:08:35with a contact from the Kreishaus Circle as soon as he arrives in town. Next, we see BJ arriving in

00:08:42Eisenstadt by train, and his contact from the resistance group is here to meet him. Man tells BJ to

00:08:50follow him, and he leads him to the sewers where BJ drops down. The Nazis are already here waiting for

00:09:00you, so that is certainly odd. If you listen closely, you can hear your contact's ultimate fate. Suffice to

00:09:08say, he did not survive the Nazis encountering him. Make your way through the sewers, and you will find

00:09:14yourself in the back of a bar on the other side. This is the general setup for the story. I

00:09:20would usually

00:09:20go through the plot beat by beat in a summary with me critiquing things here and there, but Shadowloaf,

00:09:28who did some editing on this script for me, suggested that I hit important details and

00:09:34highlights instead. I decided to give that a try. You guys let me know what you think of this approach.

00:09:41If you like it better, I will see about doing more like it in the future. If you think it

00:09:49worse than

00:09:51what I usually do, let me know as well. Here you meet Eric Engel, one of the important characters of

00:09:56this game. He wants your help blowing up a Nazi musician's train that is supposed to arrive here

00:10:04today. Also, the Nazis seem to know that you were here from the start. There might be a mole,

00:10:13and you should probably investigate that. Blowing up the train is this game's first big set piece. It

00:10:22you and all the people around you, as well as a lot of objects that are not bolted down,

00:10:29start to float in the air. This happens periodically as you make your escape from the train station,

00:10:35and it is really cool adding whole other dynamics to the fights on your way out. After exiting the

00:10:44train station, you are led to the Crystyle Circle hideout, and you travel through the hub area for the first

00:10:50time. This is where the semi-open world structure of the game comes into play. You will fight Nazi

00:10:59patrols here, as well as hunt for gold and documents. There are NPCs to talk to, and quests to pick

00:11:07up

00:11:07and travel to, and multiple ways to travel through it, such as the sewers or the rooftops, both of which

00:11:15can help you avoid fights with enemies. There are three groups of NPCs and quest givers that you want to

00:11:22keep in mind. This is the black market is the first of the three that you will visit. This is

00:11:28where you

00:11:29will spend all that Nazi gold that you collect over the course of the game. The Wolfenstein game

00:11:33finally gives you something to do with it all. In exchange for it, they will sell you upgrades for your

00:11:39weapons and powers. Keep it in mind because you will want to return here often with more gold.

00:11:46Here is the second of two groups. This is the Crystyle Circle, the group you were told to link up

00:11:52with in

00:11:53your search for General Zeta in this town. Their leader is a woman named Caroline Becker. If you play

00:12:00the Machine Games entries, you should recognize that name. She is an important character in those games,

00:12:05where she is the leader of the Crystyle Circle as well. Here is what she looks like in the two

00:12:12games.

00:12:13But that's a different girl. Yeah, she looks like a completely different character. And it is really strange.

00:12:21Anyway, Caroline was a school teacher. When the war started, General Zeta declared martial law for Eisenstad,

00:12:29and her father was gunned down in the streets. This is what inspired her to fight back and led her

00:12:35to

00:12:35become the leader of the Crystyle Circle. She is determined to free the town from Nazi rule.

00:12:41When Erik introduces you to her, she thanks you for the good work at the train station. But you

00:12:47need to do more than just that to gain her trust. She tells you about an archaeological dig outside of

00:12:56town

00:12:56where Zeta was spotted. She suggests you look for him there. She says that it's a suicide mission,

00:13:05though, and that there is a mole in the group that needs to be rooted out. When you arrive at

00:13:12the dig

00:13:12site, you find a prisoner here. A Russian named Sergei Kovlov. He is a member of a group of scholars

00:13:19that studies the occult named the Golden Dawn. We will get into them, but the Nazis captured and tortured

00:13:26him for information. He told them about an ancient artifact that he was sent here to retrieve.

00:13:33You need to get that artifact before the Nazis do venture further into the dig site. The artifact

00:13:39turns out to be a medallion. Sergei shows up and explains it to you. It allows BJ to enter the

00:13:45veil,

00:13:45a buffer between our dimension and the Black Sun dimension. In the veil, you move faster and you can see

00:13:52secret passages that are not there in our dimension. It is extremely useful and it only becomes more useful

00:14:01as you get new abilities. The veil drains as you use it, but there are places to power it back

00:14:10up spread

00:14:11out throughout the world. Be on the lookout for them. There are also creatures in the veil called Geist.

00:14:17They are harmless normally, but they can attack when they feel threatened. Finally, enemies are highlighted

00:14:25in green. It makes them easier to spot. Deeper into the ruins, you will find an old portal of some

00:14:32kind.

00:14:32It kind of resembles a Stargate. Keep this in mind for the future, but BJ decides to destroy it.

00:14:40How ethical do you think it is to destroy an ancient artifact like this?

00:14:45Now how ethical is it to keep it from falling into the hands of Nazis?

00:14:49You had to think about that one for a bit, didn't you? After you leave the ruins,

00:14:53you can spend a little time exploring and you are likely to come across your first side quest.

00:14:58This Chrysal Circle member was sent here to retrieve a code book from a nearby warehouse,

00:15:04but he was injured in his attempt to do so. He asks you to do it for him. This quest

00:15:10is pretty

00:15:10simple and straightforward without much story except for the Nazi officer that has the code book.

00:15:18Knowing that you are here and retreating to his house, keep an eye out for other such side quests

00:15:23after this one. The Golden Dawn sends you off to a church where you see the Nazis are making some

00:15:30kind

00:15:30of sky beam well before that became a meme. Inside the church you find a device that takes away your

00:15:37ability to use Veil powers. There are a bunch of these spread throughout the game, so be on the

00:15:44lookout for them and destroy them when you see them. BJ also finds a machine powered by energy from the

00:15:52Black Sun dimension here. Oh hey look, it's the guy from the cover of the game. Destroy the machine and

00:15:59head

00:16:00back to town. Head to the Golden Dawn hideout in town. This is a group of scholars that are here

00:16:05to

00:16:05investigate what the Nazis are doing with regards to the Veil and the Black Sun dimension. They are led

00:16:12by a man named Leonid Alexandrov played by the late great Tom Kane. May he rest in peace. They have

00:16:22a

00:16:22mission for you. Two of their agents went to a farmhouse to investigate what the Nazis were doing

00:16:29there and they have not come back. You are charged with finding them and saving them if you can. They

00:16:36first send you to a local pub called the Raven's Nest and I have to be honest this entire sequence

00:16:42feels like it could have been cut from the game entirely. The only important thing that happens

00:16:48here is that the game introduces Hans Gross who was the final boss of the first act of Wolfenstein 3D.

00:16:56He was the man carrying the dual mini guns. I cannot help but feel that there had to be a

00:17:02way to

00:17:03introduce him into the game in a way that does not feel so pointless. The farmhouse itself is one of

00:17:10the

00:17:10best sections of the game. It starts with a simple fight through farm fields, barns and a house that

00:17:17ultimately leads to underground tunnels that give way to underground labs. Here you will find the Golden

00:17:25Dawn members you are looking for being held prisoner by the Nazis. The Nazis are experimenting on crystals

00:17:33called not some crystals. They can only be mined in Eisenstadt and they are used to power the black

00:17:41sun artifacts the Nazis are trying to create artificial crystals and they have creatures called sniffers

00:17:50that the scientists are afraid of that are used to sniff out the most powerful of these crystals. This

00:17:57lets the Nazis refine the process of making artificial crystals allowing more and more powerful fake

00:18:03ones as they work. This area is packed with great environmental storytelling and it culminates in

00:18:09one of the best set pieces in the game as you blow up the labs and have to escape while

00:18:16using a mounted

00:18:17turret to gun down the sniffers that also broke free from their cages and can and will attack you

00:18:25while they escape as well. It's fucking great and an absolute highlight for this game. Next up is the

00:18:33hospital. The receptionist is killed by an invisible assassin right in front of BJ. The opening of this level

00:18:40is great as BJ is stalked by the invisible assassin. He is fast and hard to hit. He is hard

00:18:48to spot as well

00:18:49until he is right in your face ready to attack. Until you are finally able to fight back and kill

00:18:57the first

00:18:57one. This plays out like a horror game and it's effective and memorable. The Nazis have a portal

00:19:03beneath it. A doctor and a soldier are talking besides it. The doctor says that everyone that has entered the

00:19:09portal has come back out a monster or has died. Two of them spot BJ and the soldier

00:19:16pushes the doctor into the portal. He comes back out as a monster and kills the doctor.

00:19:23See, as you can see, the more you fuck around, the more you're going to find out.

00:19:29Killing this monster is the game's first boss fight. After the fight, the portal sucks BJ up into

00:19:35the Black Sun dimension. This is your first real glimpse at it. And you should count your lucky stars.

00:19:41Unlike everyone else that has injured it, you do not come back as a monster. BJ wakes up in the

00:19:47hospital

00:19:47floor sometime later and he has to fight his way back out of the hospital. Make your way back to

00:19:54the

00:19:54streets of Eisenstadt. You learn that the broken parts of the portal you destroyed at the dig site

00:20:00have been shipped to a cannery to be rebuilt. Zeta issued a shoot on site order. It is safe to

00:20:08say

00:20:08that he is pissed. In one of the levels you may come across a guise that appears to have been

00:20:14captured by the Nazis. It seems to be dead and it was doubtless experimented on. You never really

00:20:20see these things outside of the veil so you have to wonder how this thing got here from the veil

00:20:27and

00:20:28what cruel experiments it was subjected to. The game doesn't really give you an answer, but it is a neat

00:20:34piece of environmental storytelling. The plot is good at that. BJ finally comes face to face with

00:20:41General Zeta. It is about time he showed up. We keep hearing about him, but this is the first time

00:20:45we see him. BJ tries to shoot him, but the bullets go right through him. Zeta says you cannot see

00:20:53what

00:20:53is right in front of you and the next boss fight begins. Zeta is not a human. He is some

00:21:00sort of Black

00:21:00Sun creature. Perhaps he is how the Nazis found out about the Black Sun in the first place. Either way,

00:21:08take him down and make your escape as the building around you explodes. When you escape the building,

00:21:15you find that fighting in the streets has increased dramatically. The Nazis are retaliating for the

00:21:23death of Zeta. Caroline gives you instructions on how to get to a new hideout and tells you to meet

00:21:29her there. Here, the game shifts to a different part of the town for the remainder of it. At this

00:21:36new location, you discover that Caroline has been kidnapped and Leonid says that the Golden Dawn no

00:21:41longer require BJ's services. I guess you'll only be doing missions for the Chrysal Circle from here on out.

00:21:48The Chrysal Circle is planning a raid on a castle where Becker is being held to rescue her, so join

00:21:56them. It is worth noting that this is not Castle Wolfenstein. It is just a castle in Eisenstadt.

00:22:04That specific castle does not appear in this game. BJ comes face to face with his old nemesis,

00:22:11Death's Head. He was the villain in Return to Castle Wolfenstein and he is back in this game. He is

00:22:18also in the next game, The New Order as well. Here's what he looks like in this game compared to

00:22:24that

00:22:25one. But that's a different guy. Yeah, he pretty much looks like an entirely different character in

00:22:30this game than he does in the next one. It's weird. Anyway, Death's Head heard BJ was here and he

00:22:37came to

00:22:37get revenge for the events of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Again, I must commend the continuity

00:22:42between the games. I appreciate it. Hans Gross is here holding Caroline captive. BJ drops his gun. The

00:22:51Nazis are harvesting power for the Black Sun dimension to power their army to make them unstoppable and take

00:22:59over the world. Something goes wrong with the machine. Caroline breaks free from Hans and punches him

00:23:06in the face. She gets shot and killed. A giant monster comes through the portal. Hans and Death's Head

00:23:14escape. The creature is your next boss fight. After the fight, the game takes note that Caroline is

00:23:22definitely dead. I gotta go take my brain medicine so I can understand the Wolfenstein franchise. At the

00:23:30black market, you learn that one of the brothers, Anton, is dead. He apparently told the Nazis of BJ's arrival

00:23:42which begs the question, how did he know? Keep this in mind, I will come back to it. He also

00:23:50set up

00:23:51Caroline's capture that led to her death. So his brother shot him for this. I guess at least one of

00:23:57them has some sense of right and wrong after previously insisting that they are happy to sell

00:24:03weapons to both sides of the war. Death's Head has moved to the Zeppelin floating above the town

00:24:10throughout the game. He is planning on firing some sort of Black Sun weapon from above the town. BJ needs

00:24:18to fight his way through the Nazi airfield to reach the Zeppelin in order to confront him and stop

00:24:24the Nazis once and for all. His plan to get to the airship leads to a pretty humorous exchange that

00:24:31I quite like. Listen. This is insane. If you didn't think this would work, you should have said something earlier.

00:24:41I did.

00:24:48BJ sees Death's Head and Hans talking to Alexandrov. Alexandrov says he told the Nazis where to find

00:24:56Caroline leading to her capture and that you would be arriving at the train station both. He has been

00:25:03working with them the whole time. Wait, one of the Black Market brothers said much the same about his

00:25:08brother. So which is it game? Maybe they both informed the Nazis about Caroline and your arrival?

00:25:15I do not know. It seems to be an oversight in the story. Anyway, Alexandrov has been using the Golden

00:25:23Dawn to translate ancient little manuscripts and use them to feed their findings back to the Nazis.

00:25:30And he says they do not suspect anything because they have been so focused on what BJ is doing to

00:25:36ask questions. He wants to pass into the Black Sun dimension and he says that he has been ridiculed his

00:25:44whole life about his research. I suppose that is why he is working with the Nazis? Because they were taking

00:25:51him more seriously? This also explains why he never liked BJ. None of it works out for him as Hans

00:25:58shoots him and him and Death's Head move away saying the weapon will be firing soon. Enter the portal to

00:26:06the Black Sun dimension. BJ arrives at some sort of machine. Is this the weapon? Apparently it destroyed

00:26:13the Thule Society but Death's Head is certain that he will be able to control it. He wants to use

00:26:19it to

00:26:19destroy Eisenstadt and then conquer the rest of the world. He does not say what it actually does though.

00:26:28He orders Hans to kill you and Hans is the final boss fight. After the fight, the Zeppelin crashes.

00:26:34BJ takes a parachute and jumps off. He floats down to safety as the Zeppelin crashes behind him. The

00:26:43medallion starts to dissolve and he throws it away. I guess no one can get to the Black Sun dimension

00:26:48now?

00:26:49I do not know. But there is a post credit scene where Death's Head climbs from the rubble. He is

00:26:56still

00:26:56alive and he is pissed. The story is one of the wilder stories in the franchise diving deep into the

00:27:02occult just like the previous game did. So it's about what you expect from a sequel. This might be the

00:27:09wildest and most out there game in the series in that regard. I suppose it is par for the course

00:27:18but

00:27:18no one really played Return to Castle Wolfenstein for its story necessarily. Though 2009 did have a

00:27:27bigger emphasis on it than both Wolfenstein 3D and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It was the next

00:27:33entry in the series that became well known for its storytelling though. There is certainly a lot

00:27:38that I like here. There are some really badass cutscenes spread throughout the game and I like how

00:27:44it puts a bigger emphasis on storytelling. The German accent is certainly still over the top in this

00:27:51game but is an improvement over Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I do think the Nazi soldier voices are

00:27:57better than the resistance though. Still it showed that Raven took the story of this game more seriously

00:28:06which I appreciate. The game also does a lot more to immerse you in its world. While it has plenty

00:28:14of

00:28:14cutscenes it also does a lot in game and provides a lot of information this way. It is reminiscent of

00:28:21the

00:28:21Half-Life method. Having you in first person interacting with NPCs who are talking to you in real time.

00:28:30It goes a long way to making the world feel more real. I personally find the alternate dimension stuff

00:28:37and the Veil and the Thule society in particular interesting. Maybe it will not be that way to others

00:28:43but the ancient society type stuff really grabs my attention and makes me want to know more. It certainly

00:28:50kept my attention throughout. One of the things that this game does that really stands out is the

00:28:56environmental storytelling. Take your time to look around you while you play to see how cool some of

00:29:05the levels and set pieces and art design really is. You will see where the Nazis are growing crystals

00:29:13with all kinds of high-tech sci-fi machinery that leaves you wondering what it all does. This game

00:29:21does a lot of show don't tell within its environments. And it's all so fucking cool. I particularly love

00:29:30both the farm and hospital levels in this regard but there's plenty of cool stuff in the other levels as

00:29:36well. Finally, you collect intel. Some of it is just Nazis writing about things they do in their day-to

00:29:44-day

00:29:44lives like letters between lovers while others are orders from command that really help flesh out the

00:29:51story and give you details that you might have missed. Those are worth searching for and collecting.

00:29:59This game does it right. You do not need them to have a general idea of what is going on,

00:30:06but they deepen your understanding of the world and learn more aspects of the stories you find them.

00:30:12It is not all sunshine and roses though this game's biggest flaw is its characters. Very unmemorable.

00:30:20Zeta shows up one single time, you kill him and that's it. All of his build up is just for

00:30:28one boss fight.

00:30:29He does a decent job chewing the scenery but that does not endure himself

00:30:34to the player at all. Forgettable. Same can be said about characters like Eric,

00:30:41Angle, and Stefan. If I didn't write their names down for this review, I would have forgotten about

00:30:46them as soon as I turned the game off. If Caroline didn't play a part in the new order,

00:30:52I would have completely forgot about her as well. While the story itself is interesting,

00:30:57the characters and character writing does let it down somewhat. The plot and world building are the

00:31:05main draws here. The dialogue is also subpar. Where are the memorable lines?

00:31:11The only ones that stand out are the ones that are references, like here where Hans Gross says

00:31:19Guten Tag, or when the Nazis say Mein Leben, like they scream in the original Wolfenstein 3D.

00:31:25Outside of that, the dialogue is meh. None of it sticks with you after you have beaten it.

00:31:34While I wouldn't say this game story is bad necessarily, aspects of it are rather interesting,

00:31:40as mentioned previously, but I wouldn't call it particularly good either. There are plenty of

00:31:47awesome set pieces and lots of wonderful story rich environments that are plenty memorable,

00:31:54but ultimately serviceable with nothing special. However, it was about what I expected from Wolfenstein

00:32:02at the time. I cannot say I was necessarily disappointed. While the story wasn't really the

00:32:09main draw of Wolfenstein back then, the increased focus on it is appreciated regardless,

00:32:15but the rest of the game is where it really shines. How does it look? As previously mentioned,

00:32:25this game runs on id tech 4, heavily enhanced by Raven. The Havoc physics engine was added to get

00:32:33those sweet ragdolls and other cool physics on objects in the environment. They added depth of field,

00:32:41soft shadows and post-processing effects, creating something quite a bit more advanced than Doom 3

00:32:48on a technical front. Tell me again why Bethesda allegedly said this engine wasn't good enough

00:32:54for the sequel to Prey? If you played Doom 3 and Quake 4 beforehand, you probably noticed right off the

00:33:02bat that this game puts far less emphasis on the lighting. The lighting and shadows here are nice and the

00:33:11soft shadows

00:33:13added do result in more realistic shadows than the artistic designs presented in the games where those were

00:33:22focused on showing those off. This game focuses more on realistic environments. The lighting is quite good,

00:33:30but of course, it is still id tech 4. That was the engine's biggest innovation. It just uses them

00:33:37very differently than the other games utilizing the same engine. The game seems to have rounder edges,

00:33:46and a general higher level of detail in pretty much everything in its environment than Doom 3 and

00:33:51Quake 4 as well. Raven's previous experience with the game engine and developing Quake 4 really shows.

00:33:59The environments are downright gorgeous at times, and pretty good looking the rest of the time.

00:34:06For a game that is now 17 years old, as well as the time of writing this, this game is

00:34:15still a looker,

00:34:16especially on PC, where you can run it at higher resolutions with higher graphical settings in

00:34:21the console version. Beyond that, the art design of this game is downright inspired and amazing.

00:34:29Raven has done a great job making the spaces you visit look believable. Large garage workspaces look

00:34:37like you would imagine. You can see them being real places, and the town itself is pretty well laid out.

00:34:46It is not particularly large, certainly smaller than a real life town would be, but that's fine. It's more

00:34:53convenient for the player that way. It is still big enough and open enough to sell you on it.

00:34:59The other environment type that stands out the most to me are the ruins of the Ghoul Society. You will

00:35:06see

00:35:06a lot of cool crumbled structures that were ancient temples and whatnot in places like the Dick site

00:35:12and the Black Sun dimension itself. It tells you that there is a whole history to it hidden away by

00:35:19time.

00:35:20It's a really nice touch that does a very good job leaving you wanting more. Good work, Raven. The world

00:35:29you

00:35:30created for this game is one of its biggest highlights. The game uses a lot of special effects as well.

00:35:38Entering and exiting the veil looks really cool and the enemies glow in it as well as the liquid that

00:35:47restores your veil powers are really cool as well. The bullets impacting shields is a wonderful little touch.

00:35:56The Tesla cannon is awesome looking when you fire it and the gravity warping effects when the Black Sun

00:36:04energy explosions occur is downright awesome. I sure wish it played nicer with my recording software

00:36:10because it really is quite impressive. There are some drawbacks to the game's graphics. However,

00:36:17first off, there is no in-game FOV slider. You can edit an INI to increase the FOV,

00:36:24but the standard is about 80 degrees at best. You can increase this by opening the config file and

00:36:31entering a new FOV in that. But that does come with some major drawbacks. It is designed for a set

00:36:39FOV

00:36:40and full screen effects like condensation or smoke covering the screen will be in a box in the middle

00:36:48of the screen instead of taking up the whole screen. It is up to you if you want to deal

00:36:54with that or

00:36:54not. I do not know of any way to increase the FOV that avoids this. Beyond this, the character models

00:37:02do not hold up as well as the environments. Objects and other models do. This is pretty typical of older

00:37:09games to be honest. It is not that surprising. The models do not look bad necessarily, but rendering

00:37:16characters has come a long way since this game. When you are going for a realistic look for the

00:37:21characters, they cannot be held up by wonderful things like art design nearly as well. To be fair,

00:37:29they fit into the environments pretty well. Such a minor complaint really, but they definitely are

00:37:34not as nice as they used to be. This applies to their movement and animations as well. It is not

00:37:42bad at

00:37:42all. It is just decidedly 7th gen. All in all, this is a great looking game. By 2009 standards,

00:37:49this game looked quite good and it holds up pretty well to this day. Wonderful art design really helps

00:37:55this game stand the test of time for certain. And this game still looks pretty good even by modern

00:38:02standards. If this was to get a good quality remaster with touch-ups of the models and texture work,

00:38:10it would look practically modern. Should that ever happen, I just ask that the FOV issue gets fixed.

00:38:19This game is gorgeous and there is very little to complain about graphically. How does it sound then?

00:38:25This game sounds fucking incredible. I am shocked that this does not get more discussion on how good it

00:38:33sounds sounds because it damn well should. It is no slouch in any aspect. Raven Software did an

00:38:41absolutely incredible job with this game's sound design and I would be hard pressed to come up with

00:38:47any complaints about any aspect of this game's audio design. This is a prime example of why I want a

00:38:54good

00:38:54audio setup for my games, movies, and music. Let's start with the weapons. When you fire these,

00:39:01they sound powerful as hell. Every real-life World War II-era weapon in this game has a strong punch

00:39:10to

00:39:10the audio and it uses bass for an even stronger emphasis on it. If you have a subwoofer, you are

00:39:18going to feel that when you fire the weapons. It gives those a good workout and it helps you feel

00:39:27every shot you take. This is some of the best weapon audio outside of fear. It is genuinely that good.

00:39:35The game also has a number of science fiction weapons that you can play with and the sound is wonderful

00:39:44as well. The Tesla Cannon zaps enemies with electricity and it really sounds like it hurts a hell of a

00:39:53lot.

00:39:53The particle cannon fires a beam of Veil energy that vaporizes enemies and it sounds like an

00:40:02absolutely terrible way to die when you point and shoot at enemies. It is glorious. Then there is the

00:40:09Lycan Faust 44. I probably butchered that pronunciation but it fires explosive blasts of Black Sun energy

00:40:19gravity that come with gravity warping effect. It sounds incredible as well. You will hear a lot of

00:40:24explosions throughout this game as well as you would expect. The game does take place during wartime in

00:40:30a town where the Nazi party and a resistance group are wrestling for control. You can make your own

00:40:38explosions too with rocket launchers or grenades. They sound great as well with big basic booms that rock your

00:40:46living room headphones or whatever you happen to be playing it. There is real power to them as there

00:40:53should be. It's awesome. Another thing that I love about the audio specifically is the Veil powers. The

00:41:00sound of bullets colliding with shields is a real standout. The thunk sound they make is really damn cool.

00:41:09By this point there was a precedent set for how slow motion sound and this game nails it as well.

00:41:19Raven did

00:41:21not reinvent the wheel with that but they did not need to the classic distorted slowed audio. The added effect

00:41:30for when you use empower that makes your bullets stronger is quite nice as well. And the general ambience

00:41:38of being in the Veil is quite nice as well. As you are traveling through the different areas of the

00:41:44game you

00:41:44will hear appropriate noises to those areas. There will be fighting in the streets. You will hear allies

00:41:51and enemies talking to each other. The gentle flow of the liquid anytime you are near a source of Veil

00:41:59energy

00:41:59or flowing water and little noises like the Geists make it all sound believable and appropriate. Raven did a great

00:42:07job with the environmental audio in this game as well. How was the voice cast? Let's start with Tom

00:42:14Kane. May he rest in peace. He plays the leader of the Golden Dawn Dr. Leonid Alexandrov and he is

00:42:21quite

00:42:21good here. He's quite an accomplished voice actor by this point and it is hard to imagine him being bad

00:42:31in any

00:42:31role. Likewise the late great Jim Ward known for bringing Captain Quark from Ratchet and Clank to life plays a

00:42:40variety of

00:42:41SS officers in this game and he does a great job putting on a German accent than anything in Return

00:42:49to

00:42:49Castle Wolfenstein and any of the resistance members in my opinion. Another standout performance is Robin Atkins Downs as

00:42:58Death's Head. Among many roles he played the Prophet of Regret in Halo 2 and Halo Wars which I have

00:43:06done

00:43:06a video on previously as well as Master Miller in the Metal Gear Solid games. He'd choose the scenery big

00:43:14time here as Death's Head and the villain is better for it. He is probably my favorite performance in this

00:43:20entire game because of how over the top he plays Death's Head. It works great for the outright evil bastard

00:43:27that he is. BJ is voiced in this game though he certainly talks less than he does in New Order.

00:43:35Here he is played by Peter Jessup. If you are familiar with BJ in that game but have not played

00:43:42this one

00:43:43you will find the performance here is much more straightforward and a more typical hero archetype.

00:43:49Don't see that as a bad thing though. Jessup does well with the material that he is given.

00:43:54It is just a different take on the character. The more doubt and trodden and regretful take on BJ in

00:44:01the

00:44:01New Order would not work for BJ in this game. BJ is much more of an all-American hero here

00:44:09and it works

00:44:11great for the story that it is telling. All in all there are some great voice actors in this game

00:44:19and

00:44:19they all turn in great performances. The only real complaint I could lodge against it is the German

00:44:24accents here can be a little over the top at times. Then again the story is as well. It's weird

00:44:31though

00:44:31that there seems to be a sharp divide between how the resistance sounds in this regard and how the

00:44:38Nazi soldiers sound. The German accents to my ears at least are better on the Nazis than the resistance

00:44:46group. Maybe that was on purpose. I do not know that still the performances are good and they did the

00:44:54best with the material that they were given. Finally we arrive at the score. This is not one of the

00:45:01top

00:45:02scores for first person shooters that I have ever heard. It does not sit up there with Bobby Prince's

00:45:08classic work on Doom or Marty O'Donnell's work on Halo. But it is not bad either. The music never gets

00:45:16in the way of the action. It only enhances it. It ramps up when things are getting heated and balls

00:45:23are

00:45:23flying. It definitely has a memorable tune or two here or there. It's not something I would necessarily go out

00:45:31and collect on vinyl. One thing this game does well with its music is combine with the level design,

00:45:39art direction, and lighting to set a mood and atmosphere. When you are being stalked and taunted

00:45:46by an invisible assassin in the hospital it gets a little spooky. When you find ancient ruins it gets

00:45:54a little mysterious and when you are traveling through the high-tech Nazi labs it gets a little sci-fi.

00:46:01This is really what the music does best. It sets an appropriate mood for whatever the situation

00:46:08you find yourself in. Even if you do not come away humming the tunes you will go oh yeah I

00:46:15remember that

00:46:16when you hear them in the game. It's good work. All in all there are no weak spots to this

00:46:21game's

00:46:21audio design at all. It has high watermarks across the board and sound department. Wolfenstein 2009 is an

00:46:29amazing sounding game and I am kind of shocked that I have heard so little about it in regards to

00:46:34that in the 17 years since its release. This game sounds great and it has not lost anything in that

00:46:41regard since its release. Get yourself a good pair of headphones or set yourself up a great receiver

00:46:48for audio preferably with a subwoofer and enjoy. The game will reward you for it. How does it play then?

00:46:56When you first boot up this game and start to play it, it would be easy to dismiss this as

00:47:01nothing more

00:47:02than Wolfenstein imitating Call of Duty. I know at least a few people were guilty of this back in

00:47:08the day. It has a slower movement speed and regenerating health that COD is known for. I have

00:47:30to push past that. The opening level to this game isn't even bad at all. Honestly, it is a pretty

00:47:36good

00:47:37opening that sees you getting your first two weapons, an MP40 and a car 98, fighting your way through a

00:47:44train station and blowing up a train. It ends up in a really cool set piece where the gravity is

00:47:50going

00:47:50nuts, causing Nazis and everything else to float up in the air, BJ included. It's great and it does give

00:47:59you a small taste of what's to come. When you accept that there is a bit of Call of Duty

00:48:03influence in

00:48:04this game, it gets off to a strong start. The levels just get better from there as you acquire weapons

00:48:12and powers and it culminates in the farm and hospital levels, at least in my opinion. Those are my two

00:48:19favorite areas of this game. The farm does a great job diverting your expectations. You go there expecting

00:48:26maybe the Nazis are holding the Golden Dawn members hostage there, but you find so much more as you

00:48:34deeper venture into it. There are multi-layered shootouts. It introduces the sniffer enemies. You

00:48:40see them beneath you before you fight them and it shows you that the Nazi operations are much deeper

00:48:50than you have initially thought. It's great. Then there is the hospital level. The opening of this

00:48:57has you seeing a nurse at the front desk get slaughtered by an invisible assassin that you

00:49:04just get a glimpse of and it has BJ exploring the hospital interior while the thing taunts you the entire

00:49:12time. Raven knew just how long to let it stalk you in the halls before it comes down and attacks

00:49:18you

00:49:18for the first time and you have to try to fend it off. Beneath the hospital you find a new

00:49:25weapon to

00:49:26deal with the assassin and the rebuilt portal from the dig site and the game's first boss fight. It is

00:49:35so

00:49:35well done and so atmospheric. When I say that these two are the best highlights, I do not mean that

00:49:42the

00:49:42rest of the game is bad because it definitely isn't. This game has a tendency to throw new areas and

00:49:50environments at you right up to the final moments. It always has you seeing something new as you travel

00:49:57through the different locations. Despite the vast majority of enemies being human beings, it does a

00:50:04good job mixing them up as well. Some are melee, some use machine guns, there are enemies that have

00:50:12flamethrowers and there are enemies with sci-fi weaponry as well and they are all a blast to fight.

00:50:19The enemy AI is nothing special like it is in fear but they are competent. They will generally shout out

00:50:28warnings when you throw grenades and at least try to avoid them. They will duck and try to remain out

00:50:35of

00:50:36sight while firing back at you. They will try to dodge your attacks and they will toss grenades your

00:50:44way. Enemies do a decent job fighting back and it keeps fights engaging from beginning to end. The gun

00:50:52fights in this game are up to Raven's highest standard of quality. There is one specific enemy type in this

00:50:58game that gets on my nerves though and it is the rocket trooper. These guys fly in on jet packs

00:51:04and

00:51:05they fire rockets down at you from above. They probably kill me more than any other enemy type in

00:51:09this game despite being introduced late in the game. They have a tendency to dodge out of the way

00:51:16of your fire the moment you aim at them and it makes them a pain in the ass to hit

00:51:22at times. Even with slow-mo

00:51:24activated they can be hard to hit and they hit you hard as you would expect. They are easily the

00:51:32least

00:51:33enjoyable enemy to fight in this game. The boss fights are pretty cool in this game. This does not

00:51:39just go the route of shoot it until it dies type of fights. They are a bit more complex than

00:51:45that and

00:51:46they take a little bit more brain power for you to figure out how to take them down. This makes

00:51:51them

00:51:52more fun to fight. The bosses stand out more as a result. The only one that I struggled a hell

00:52:00of a

00:52:01lot with was the chick that you fight on the way to the Zeppelin. With that one it was not

00:52:07figuring

00:52:07out how to win. It was just the game throws so much shit at you that it's a little overwhelming.

00:52:14There

00:52:14are a few sections of this game where you take control of a mounted turrets and either fight off waves

00:52:21of enemies or in one case fend off a boss. These do not control all that great especially during the

00:52:29boss

00:52:29fight trying to destroy the antenna tower. The thing turns so sluggish and slow that you will die because

00:52:39you could not turn to aim at incoming enemies fast enough and there is nothing that you can do about

00:52:46it. It's not fun. It is frustrating and it feels like these are cheap deaths that are entirely the game's

00:52:54fault

00:52:55because they just do not give you proper tools to deal with what you are shooting at. Having said that

00:53:04there

00:53:04is one turret section where you are escaping the farm that is absolutely excellent. This is one of the game's

00:53:11really cool set pieces. It has you take hold of a turret as the

00:53:16train you are on speeds away from the underground complex beneath the farm. Everything is blowing up around

00:53:24you and tons of sniffers are crawling out all over the walls and ground trying to escape as well. You

00:53:32will be shooting them and the explosive barrels as you speed away. It's exhilarating. It is the best mounted

00:53:42turret section in the game by far. A first person shooter lives and dies by its guns and Wolfenstein

00:53:492009 has an excellent selection of weapons for you to choose from. The first gun that you will be given

00:53:55is classic MP40. It will become your old reliable as ammo for it is plentiful and it does a great

00:54:03job

00:54:04taking down Nazis. It feels great to fire and it is a blast using it. You will be pulling it

00:54:10out a lot

00:54:11throughout the game and it is always a good choice. You will not make it out of the train station

00:54:16before

00:54:16you get your second weapon. This is the car 98. It is a bolt action rifle and you will want

00:54:21to use it

00:54:22for more precise aiming than the MP40. It has a smaller clip and a much slower rate of fire but

00:54:29it is great

00:54:30for popping off headshots at a longer range. It will eventually wind up effectively being your sniper rifle

00:54:38and it proves to be great and quite effective at it. You will pick up an MP43 as well and

00:54:46it basically

00:54:47serves as the same purpose as the MP40. It's another submachine gun. It fires fast, it packs a punch,

00:54:55it is great for short and medium range just like the MP40 which one you switch to will largely depend

00:55:03upon your current ammo pool. Honestly I don't know why Raven would not give you a pistol or revolver

00:55:09instead of the two weapons that fill the same role. BJ uses a pistol in the opening scene and Hans

00:55:17holds Caroline hostage with one as well but you never get to use one in game. Continuing with the real

00:55:26world

00:55:27weapons you will find a flamethrower as well. Flamethrowers seem to be hard to get right in video games if

00:55:36how

00:55:36often they are done wrong is any indication but this one seems to get it very right. If you want

00:55:46to send

00:55:46those Nazis to a horrible agonizing death pull this thing out. Ammo for it is a bit limited but it

00:55:58is so

00:55:58much fun to use. Enemies will scream in pain before they die and it is great. Good job Raven. You

00:56:06get the

00:56:07Panzer check for your rocket launcher. If you have played pretty much any World War 2 game you have

00:56:14probably taken out tanks with this thing. Well there are no tanks for you to take out with it but

00:56:20it

00:56:20does pack quite a wallop as any great rocket launcher should. I did not use this one much but it

00:56:29is great

00:56:30for taking out groups of enemies in one single shot. It feels appropriately powerful to use. It is a lot

00:56:39of

00:56:39fun to fire. Finally you get to toss grenades at enemies as well. These work exactly as you would

00:56:45expect. You toss it, it explodes, it damages or kills any poor son of a bitch caught up in the

00:56:52explosion.

00:56:53Enemies will try to dodge out of the way when you throw it and they have grenades too. They will

00:57:01toss them

00:57:02your way so look out for the indicator letting you know when one is nearby. You can use these to

00:57:09disperse

00:57:10crowds or kill crowds depending upon how things go and they are fun. Beyond these real world weapons

00:57:18this game has some really fun science fiction guns. One of the first ones that you will get is the

00:57:25particle cannon and this thing is fucking awesome. It fires a stream of black sun energy that does high

00:57:34damage and will turn enemies into nothing very quickly. When you get one of these things and use it on

00:57:42enemies for the first time you are bound to fall in love with it. It's flat out fucking awesome. The

00:57:50next up

00:57:50is the tesla cannon. This thing fires bolts of electricity at enemies. It does not work the same

00:57:58as the lightning gun in quake where it fires a straight stream of electricity. It is a little

00:58:04more unpredictable than that as it can fire in multiple directions depending upon where the enemy

00:58:09is in relation to you. It can hit multiple targets at a time as well. Use this to zap the

00:58:15ever loving

00:58:15shit out of any Nazi scum that dares to get in your way. It is so much fucking fun. The

00:58:22last weapon is

00:58:23the Leichen Faust 44. It is effectively a rocket launcher that fires bursts of energy from the black

00:58:31sun dimension. It explodes on contact. It does splash damage and it causes the gravity warping effect as

00:58:38well. It is very fucking powerful and it sends enemies ragdolling and floating back down. Save this

00:58:47one for tight spots but enjoy it when you have ammo for it. It is awesome and very fun to

00:58:53use. All in all

00:58:54every single weapon in this game is a hell of a lot of fun to use and it makes the

00:58:58gunplay all that much

00:59:00better. There are no duds here even if the MP40 and MP43 fill the same basic role in the arsenal.

00:59:08You

00:59:09expect good gunplay from classic Raven games and this game delivers it in spades. Shootouts with enemies

00:59:15are fun from start to finish partially because the roster of weapons is top tier. Man I miss Old Raven

00:59:23so

00:59:24much. If that was all there was to this game that would probably be enough to be a great shooter

00:59:31but

00:59:32that's not all. This game has a device called the Thule Medallion that is central to both the plot and

00:59:37the

00:59:37gameplay. When you use it you enter a buffer realm between our world and the black sun dimension called

00:59:45the Veil. Enemies are highlighted and they can still see you but your movement speed is increased.

00:59:53You can also use the Veil to travel through certain walls and passages. These two things alone make

01:00:00the Veil worth having but it does not stop there. The first power that you will add to your medallion

01:00:08is the ability to slow down time effectively entering the game's version of bullet time. It's awesome.

01:00:14You move significantly faster than the enemies. It allows you to kill them much quicker. It also lets you

01:00:21deal with groups of enemies easier and allows you a greater opportunity to run up to enemies and

01:00:28melee them before they have time to react if you really want to. This will be your most used power

01:00:35in this game but it is not your only one. The second power you get is a protective shield. This

01:00:43was the

01:00:43power up shown off in the intro cutscene to the game that allows you to block incoming fire to protect

01:00:52yourself for a short period of time. It also lets you bypass certain environmental hazards unharmed that

01:01:01would harm or kill you otherwise. If I am being honest, this is my least used Veil power. I did

01:01:10not

01:01:10feel the need to use it that much when slowing down time proves so much more useful. The last of

01:01:18the Veil

01:01:19powers is called Empower and it makes your bullets stronger. Not only do they do more damage to enemies,

01:01:27but they can rip right through the black sun shields enemies set up and hide behind as well.

01:01:35This becomes incredibly useful because there are enemies that use the power to throw up shields to

01:01:43protect allies. For a lot of the game you just have to target them first, but that all changes when

01:01:51you

01:01:51get Empower. It's a hell of a lot of fun. There is one more thing of note in the levels.

01:01:57There are objects

01:01:58like hammers and axes that you can pick up. These can be thrown but won't do much. You can however

01:02:08keep them equipped to melee enemies as well. This does mean that you have to get up close and personal,

01:02:17but you can combine that with your slow-mo power to do this far easier if you want to. You

01:02:23can hack

01:02:23enemies apart with axes. This may seem entirely unnecessary, but trust me.

01:02:54Up next because pedestrian mode should be!

01:02:55Up next time!

01:03:09Up next time!

01:03:26Outside of the main levels, you will find yourself in a hub area.

01:03:30In the hub area, you will find two quest giver factions.

01:03:35The Golden Dawn and the Cry South Circle.

01:03:37You will travel back and forth between the two and talk to allies in them to get your

01:03:44next quest and to go to your next level.

01:03:47On occasion, you will find someone that can give you side quests as well.

01:03:52Be on the lookout for them.

01:03:54There are passages through the sewers and on the rooftops that you can climb up to to help

01:04:01you get around and avoid Nazi patrols in the streets.

01:04:05Or you can fight them.

01:04:07I must say the patrols do get a little tiring by the time you reach the end of the game,

01:04:12but it's not that big of a deal.

01:04:14In the hub world and in the tunnels themselves, you can find a few different items.

01:04:20There is Nazi gold, just like in the previous games, but there is intel documents and tomes

01:04:29of power as well.

01:04:30The tomes power up your Veil abilities and the gold can be spent at the black market.

01:04:36The intel will give you extra bits of information here and there that flesh out the story and

01:04:43lore in the game.

01:04:44Collecting them is worth your time as it unlocks upgrades as you go.

01:04:49Speaking of upgrades, there is a third faction in Isenstad called the black market.

01:04:54This is where you will be able to purchase upgrades.

01:04:57It starts with just upgrades for your weapon.

01:04:59These include things like suppressors, large clips, and sculpts for your various weapons.

01:05:07But they will come across crystals at some point in the story as well.

01:05:11You can use them to upgrade your Veil powers, allowing you to do things like have a larger

01:05:18pool of Veil energy and slowing down time even slower.

01:05:22You will want to visit the black market repeatedly throughout the game so you can upgrade your

01:05:32arsenal and powers.

01:05:34Keep it in mind as you play.

01:05:37It baffles me that this game didn't get better review scores than it did.

01:05:40The critical consensus is mostly in the 70's, which is not bad, but this game is a hell of

01:05:47a lot better than the reviewers at the time would make it out to be.

01:05:52This game is fun as fuck.

01:05:54The weapons are a blast to use.

01:05:56Enemies do a decent job fighting back.

01:05:58The Veil powers give a supernatural twist that really helps this game stand out.

01:06:05Wolfenstein plays great.

01:06:07I enjoyed the hell out of replaying this one for this video, and the turret turning slow,

01:06:14rocket troopers, and the one boss fight are really my only negatives.

01:06:19What about replay value?

01:06:21Unfortunately, playing this game online is going to be a tough sell nowadays, but you do unlock

01:06:27cheats that you could use on a second playthrough.

01:06:31You also have to be quite thorough to find all of the intel and golden tomes of power.

01:06:38You are not likely to get all that stuff on your first playthrough.

01:06:42That does give it some replay value.

01:06:46That combined with just how fun this game is to play through, leaves me feeling like I

01:06:54will play through it again sometime in the future.

01:06:57All in all, Wolfenstein 2009 is a complete package with a few downsides.

01:07:03The characters are not all that memorable, but the set pieces and environmental storytelling

01:07:08more than make up for it.

01:07:10The gunplay is great.

01:07:12It looks good.

01:07:14It sounds incredible.

01:07:15I hope this game one day gets a remaster that it deserves.

01:07:20I hope that remaster fixes the FOV issue.

01:07:24Then this game would be damn near perfect.

01:07:27As it stands, it is one of the better shooters from its era and I cannot recommend it highly

01:07:33enough.

01:07:34What you have been looking at for this entire time is the PC version and it is the best

01:07:39version of the game.

01:07:40It looks better than the console ports and it plays at a higher frame rate.

01:07:47It did come to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as well.

01:07:52This is the PlayStation 3 port.

01:07:54The PlayStation 3 version runs at 720p and shoots for 30 FPS.

01:08:00It is a decent enough way to play the game and it is easy to set up with a good

01:08:05sound system

01:08:06in your living room.

01:08:07It is not your only console option though.

01:08:10The game released on the Xbox 360 as well.

01:08:14This version is 720p but the Xbox 360 will upscale it to 1080p.

01:08:20It shoots for 30 FPS as well.

01:08:23The two versions of the game look pretty damn close to each other and I would have a hard

01:08:30time telling you which one is definitively better than the other.

01:08:35At least at a glance.

01:08:36I do not have the proper tools to test frame rates however.

01:08:42They are both decent ways to play this game though.

01:08:46Here is where we run into trouble though.

01:08:48There is no easy way to acquire this game nowadays.

01:08:51If you want to own a legal copy of this game you have to get a used physical copy for

01:08:57the

01:08:57PC, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3.

01:09:01There is no other way around it.

01:09:02It is not backwards compatible for the Xbox One or Series either.

01:09:07You have to have the original consoles in order to play this.

01:09:12Night Dive.

01:09:13I am begging you to remaster this game and make it available again.

01:09:17It deserves better.

01:09:21This game was a lot of fun to revisit.

01:09:23Have you played it?

01:09:24If you did, let me know what you think of it.

01:09:27I quite like it.

01:09:28I hope you guys enjoyed this video.

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