Old School Gaming

It is all too easy to forget in this age of Xbox Ones and alike to disregard the old classic games of the past. Many of us will have old games sitting in boxes and gathering dust on some shelf forgotten and unplayed for many a year, or you will see them for sell in charity shops around the town.

 

Game of choice this weekend is "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" which was released back in back in Novemeber 2001 and later released on the original Xbox some two years later. I will playing the original PC version of the game that been laying around for the last 12 years. Although ancient the game playing is classic first person shooter and is based on the original "Wolfenstein 3D" from 1992 which itself was based on "Castle Wolfenstein" from 1981.

The story basic this: back 943 AD, a German Prince known as Heinrich dominated Europe an army of undead and Dark Knights created by black magic until a monk stopped Heinrich by sealing him in a deep underground tomb. A thousand years later the Second World War had started to go bad for Nazi Germany due to their defeats on the Eastern Front and in North Africa. So the Chief of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, founded an SS Paranormal Division in order to revive Heinrich so he could win the war for Nazi Germany. Your task in the game is to stop Heinrich Himmler and his plans before it is too late.

Although on considered average at the time of its release by a number of magazines, I can still remember thinking it was a very good at the time, something that is backed up my players review scores of the game over thee years. Personally I am really enjoying playing it again and it hasn't disappointed the memory of when I first played it.