Wolfenstein is an Action, Adventure, and Shooter game for PC published by Bethesda Softworks in 1981. investigating rumors of occult activity of the Third Reich!
Wolfenstein PC Game 1981 review:
The majority of games feature the character William “BJ” Blazkowicz fighting against the Nazis. Play as Sergeant in the U.S. Army Rangers.
Castle Wolfenstein was developed by American programmer Silas Warner, along with Dale Gray and George Varndell, and published in 1981 by his company M.U.S.E. Inc. (later known as Muse Software).
Castle Wolfenstein was initially conceptualized by Warner after he saw the 1961 British-American war film The Guns of Navarone, which follows the efforts of an Allied commando unit as they attempt to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress. That same day Warner, played the multi-directional shooter arcade game, Berzerk, in which the player navigates through a maze with laser-shooting robots.
After playing the game, Warner thought about taking the design of Berzerk and replacing the robots with Nazis. He eventually settled on the idea of a game based on the arcade shoot ’em up genre, where players dodge enemies with the intent of killing them, but instead changing the objective to escape the enemy guards and their castle, not necessarily to kill and destroy them; this made shooting guards simply a means to an end and not an end in itself.
Pros of Wolfenstein:
- Castle Wolfenstein is often credited as one of the first video games in the stealth genre, as it focuses more on avoiding or disarming enemies, and killing them is considered a last resort.
- Warner is cited as a pioneer in the early eras of video gaming, especially in the stealth genre.
- Castle Wolfenstein was also the first computer game to feature digitized speech and influenced the development of other similar game franchises such as Metal Gear and Thief.
- Muse Software released the follow-up, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein in 1984 before the company legally disestablished on October 7, 1987.
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Basic System Requirements:
- CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3400+ processor
- CPU SPEED: 3.2 GHz
- RAM: 1 GB
- OS: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP or Windows Vista(R) (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
- VIDEO CARD: 256MB NVIDIA(R) Geforce(R) 6800 GT or ATI Radeon(TM) X800
- TOTAL VIDEO RAM: 256 MB
