Today we will have a closer look on the singleplayer of the game
The story:
Games they 'borrowed'' things from
Before listing the games I would like to add that these are the things I, personally, noticed. You may see things differently or even be able to add more to the list.
- Call Of Duty 4: for the obvious reasons such as ironsight and 'no-shooting-while-sprinting'.
- Half Life 2: the entering scene in Isenstadt shows great resemblance to the entering scene of Half Life 2.
- Thief: Deadly Shadows: The mapsystem looks like the one used in , where you explore a city between missions. Each mission can be accessed from some part of the city.
- F.E.A.R.: The kind of remind me of those invisible assassins from F.E.A.R. (you know, same name, same visual style)
- Prince Of Persia: for the type of bossfights. Like in Prince of Persia there is a special way to kill a boss in an arena-shaped room. Return to Castle Wolfenstein didn't have a 'special' way of killing bosses.
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver: the whole concept of the Veil seems copied from , even with the green colour. In Soul Reaver you can enter a different dimension to solve certain puzzles, sounds familiar.
- Resident Evil: the weapon upgrade system.
On a side note you could also add that the (monsters who live in the Veil) kind of seems inspired by the movie "The Mist". Creatures from other dimensions and sorts...
All of the games above are big hits in the gaming industry. It was a risky move to mix in certain elements of these totally different games but surprisingly enough it works!
The city of Isenstadt is a nice way to test your new weapon upgrades or veil powers. By having to move through the city to go to the next mission, in which you have a limited freedom of choice, the feeling of linearity is pushed back.
Now let's list the Pro's and Con's.
Pro's
- Good atmosphere: I just loved it when I heard the Nazi Assassin say "muhahaha" before attacking. Chilly feeling.
- Addictiveness of the game: you'll be playing for hours after bedtime.
- Fun weapons and ability to upgrade: vaporising enemies using the LeichenFaust 44, or decapitating them using the upgraded sniper.
- Epic bossfights, however, sometimes it's not logical what needs to be done. For example
Con's
- Artificial Intelligence: the AI of the regular Nazis is below standards. If you throw a nade right at their feet they shout "Watch out grenade!" but fail to move to cover. Luckily the bossfights make up for this. However, I must say they could have improved the epicness of the final battle by improving Hans' AI. It was a nice battle as it was, but it could have been better if both opponents were using the veilpowers to the maximum.
- Poor quality of the cutscenes.
- As said above, sometimes it's not clear why certain things happen or why you have to do certain things. Basic storytelling.
- Savepoint system: it randomly saves your game and if you try to load the latest you might not end up where you saved and quit the game.
Overall
For people who like an FPS where you can literally enter a room and just shoot everything that moves repeatedly, this game is a must-have.
If we have to add a score to the game:
Graphics: 8/10
Story: 6/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Sound: 9/10
Overall: 8/10
I'll make a Wolfenstein MP review as soon as they finish the game ;)
graphics: 7/10
story: 6/10
gameplay: 6/10
sound: 7/10
overall: 6.5/10
It's just another shitty fps console game and nothing more in my eyes, at least so far it is xD
sound: music is a big part of sounds and the feeling of a game, i liked it.
would you give this game a 15/10 graphics rating in comparison?
btw: grafiks are like Wolfenstein, but i think wolfenstein is a bit better... so thats a 7.5/10 and wolfenstein got a 8/10
i know u like it
Im finish the game and its a shity consol FPS, shooting change very fast to runnig for gold and other shit ;/
6/10
Make sure to center it :)
The Nazi's AI is one of the worst i have seen so far ...even Crysis or FarCry 2 was better at times... ~_~
Another contra for me is the weapon design...atleast of the most powerful weapons.
Looks a bit like copy&paste using the same textures...
But by far the biggest contra for me is: No option for antialiasing...
For a game that is released in the end of 2009 thats just ridiculous.
Keep up the good work.
There were also a lot of constructive comments by people here, which all got replied on with "+1" or something like that, they didnt listen to that either..
Sadly enough the head count indicated far more negative than positive comments which were directed to all involved. In any case whats done is done.
Story: TBA (haven't finished the game, but around 7/7+ for now)
Gameplay: 7/10
Sound: 7+/10
Overall: 7/10
borrowing = taking
I think you meant that they "borrowed" elements from other games.
then lets see what happens
Serious Sam, Painkiller like?
That's a pretty ignorant statement, if Prince of Persia is the first game you've played where there's a special way of killing a boss than you obviously haven't played many video games. PoP was just borrowing from the hundreds of games before it that use the same things.
not
try to write something instead of summarizing and giving out 9/10 scores everywhere makes you wonder where you objectivity lies. If 10/10 is pefection you'd think 9/10 is something epic and truely grand. I dont see any reason why the gameplay deserves a 9/10, it isnt inventive, creative, authentic, innovating or well implemented, its a cheap cod ripoff, nothing special about it. Same can be said about graphics, they are outdated and look as if the game was made in 2005, 8/10? I really want to see how much you would rate a real good looking pc game 11/10? Sound, 9/10 i dont know how you got to that conclusion but i gotten annoyed at the first map by the my allies who constantly repeat the same shit over and over and over again.
my personal score: 7/10
the key word here being 'have to'
The purpose of this column is to show my point of view. If I wanted to write a review that can be compared to other reviews as on big gaming sites I would have used the rule of intersubjectivity, meaning I would have asked a bunchload of people to give a rating and then use the scores that has the highest frequency.
who are you and what qualifies you to judge the game?
read my the title "My wolfenstein SP review"
keyword is "my"
oh and every1 can judge a game you dont rly have to qualify in anything to do that
roflmao
Think Mohaa was still better for its time, although I played it recently and oh how things have advanced :D
Big hello to Korsan, before i forget nice post Nakato.
edit: I like pressing the edit button.
Only thing is that a bug with the save games causes to crash my game at a certain point so i cant finish it. =( Which is really shit that they bring out a game that bugged. But anyway they are working on a patch which hopefully comes soon with all the lay-offs at raven...
respect man :)