Ranking EVERY Wolfenstein Game From Worst To Best
2. Return To Castle Wolfenstein
The turn of a new millennium brought us many things in gaming, the Playstation 2 was just around the corner, online play was actually starting to become a thing for most gamers and Wolfenstein took on a new lease in life.
One moment B.J. is escaping Castle Wolfenstein, the next he finds himself in a crypt full of undead soldiers coming back to life, then moments later in a secret underground facility called the X-Labs, this is basically Deathhead’s playground to create Super Soldiers.
Think X-Files crossed with World War 2 and you’re about halfway there.
This game is somehow incredibly atmospheric too, with not only the locations switching up, but the tone. It can go from power fantasy to creepy and downright scary. In the crypt, you never know what will be around the corner as the halls are filled with the screams of dying Nazis, and same too for the X-Labs - the X-Creatures being some of the more disorientating monsters in gaming.
Sure, Blazkowicz is nothing more than a 3D rendition of the face in Wolfenstein 3D, but that is all he needed to be in this arcade-style Quake shooter that wasn’t ashamed to be all about killing Nazis and doing it right.