The game was distributed via shareware by publisher Apogee Software, who would later become the legendary 3D Realms studio responsible for Duke Nukem 3-D. Nazi iconography would line the walls of Castle Wolfenstein, the chained skeletons of dead Allied soldiers, and you could drink the blood of corpses if your health was below 11 id was making sure you didn’t mistake this for your momma’s shooter. This wasn’t going to the 2D hide and seek gameplay of the original: Romero wanted this game to be a violent, adrenaline fueled WWII action movie. Romero suggested that they make a fast-action version of the 1981 stealth title Castle Wolfenstein and its 1984 sequel Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. They decided they needed to expand their horizons beyond the successful kid-friendly Commander Keen series, and work on something that truly appealed to their darker and more personal sensibilities.
Wolfenstein 3D’s development story begins with id software at a crossroads: they were still fulfilling their contract with their old employer Softdisk to release several games like Catacomb 3D, and id was looking to branch out into new creative territory. So let’s get stuck into why Wolfenstein 3D and its expansion the Spear of Destiny are still worth getting psyched about! It’s no Doom but Doom wouldn’t have existed if Wolfenstein hadn’t shown the world that first-person shooters were the way of the future. After my first full playthrough in 2021 all these years later, I have to say, the game has held up pretty well. We were just kids so we never got that far but it never ceased to entertain us. My brother and I would go over to our family friend’s house and play for hours on his PC. Wolfenstein 3D was the very first first-first person shooter I ever played, which is pretty appropriate, since it basically invented the genre as we know it today.
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