Where did this past weekend go? That’s what I’m asking. I picked up a copy of Return To Castle Wolfenstein and started to play it on Friday. It’s the latest game from id Software and is the sequel to Wolfenstein 3D that was released way back in the early 1990’s. It uses id‘s own Quake3 Team Arena 3D engine so it looks nice. According to many reviews for this game, it’s single-player game is supposed to be decent and the multiplayer is supposed to be amazing (nothing can top Unreal Tournament‘s multiplayer, in my opinion). I played the single-player campaign and assumed it would be a game requiring an itchy trigger finger to make the piles of Nazi corpses grow. Damn, was I wrong. This game required both a steady stream of bullets as well as some tactical strategy. The setting so far has ranged from military camps to German castles. However, Mission 2 in this game will be a set of maps that I will never forget. The Nazi’s were attempting to create super soldiers but some of these experiments went wrong and resulted in zombies and mutants. The movement of these characters looks so creepy and the setting is disturbing. My suggestion for a spine-tingling experience; play Mission 2 in a dark room with a sound card capable of 3D positional audio and crank it. You’ll be paranoid for hours after you’ve stepped away from your computer. I’m back in the gaming spirit. Bring on Unreal Tournament 2 and Doom 3 🙂
