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470 Words - 29 August 2009, 23:08
Wolfenstein
I was massively excited when I heard that a Wolfenstein game was being made for the Xbox 360 – I absolutely loved Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory the free PC multiplayer game, as well as being a fan of the original Return to Castle Wolfenstein and of course, Wolf 3D!
The single-player campaign in Wolfenstein is a familiar one yet I found it massively enjoyable. You play as B.J. Blazkowicz fighting off not only the feared German SS but a vast array of supernatural villains that at times will have you backing up in fear. Upgradeable weaponry through collectable gold allows you to modify your standard WW2 weapons such as the MP40, Kar 98k, MP43, Panzer and Flame-thrower to be more accurate, more powerful and ultimately more deadly. The addition of some supernatural weapons is a nice touch, electrifying and vaporising the Wehrmacht has never been so satisfying.
Isenstadt the fictional town the game is based in has a semi-open world environment, you can walk the streets, find side-quests and collectibles through-out but it is by no means a true open-world game. The missions are however very good and played out in some brilliant scenarios, I played through the SP campaign on Hard but never at any point found it particularly difficult. Sound effects, environmental features and not to mention the Veil and it’s four powers you posses makes for a truly enjoyable single player game that’ll keep you entertained for around about 10 hours.
The multiplayer portion of Wolfentsein was not created by Raven Software but by Endrant Studios and you can tell, it’s of inferior quality, rather limiting, laggy and has some poignant bugs that don’t save your stats after each game, making for a frustrating and short lived MP experience.
That said, the story mode isn’t without its major issues either. I was near 80% completed and decided that before I headed off to defeat the final boss I would make my way back around Isenstadt and the various missions where I hadn’t collected everything necessary… only to find out their is a serious freeze bug that now stops me from loading the finale just because I replayed some past missions. Fucking ridiculous, Raven need to get their finger out and patch that before Wolfenstein joins an ever expanding collection of games on my dusty shelf.
Sadly because of this and the poor multiplayer Wolfenstein only gets 3 stars out of 5 from me, it pains me to write that as I love this franchise, and was thoroughly enjoying the single player campaign until I and many others stumbled across these annoying bugs. I hope in the future that Raven Software realise the public are not their beta testers!
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Alan
2. September 2009, 01:58
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