Wolfenstein

 PlayStation 3
User Score
8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 155 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 108 out of 155
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 155
  3. Negative: 10 out of 155
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  1. WarTornRuston
    Jul 9, 2012
    6
    First of all this is a decent game but I feel like the FPS has evolved. Gone are the days of simple shooting mechanics in a decent enough story. Crysis, Bioshock, Snydicate, Deus Ex, The Darkness, and Halo have all shown that you need more than guns, grenades, and something to shoot to stand out.
    Even the Call of Duty and Battlefields of the world offer more variety and a large and deep    First of all this is a decent game but I feel like the FPS has evolved. Gone are the days of simple shooting mechanics in a decent enough story. Crysis, Bioshock, Snydicate, Deus Ex, The Darkness, and Halo have all shown that you need more than guns, grenades, and something to shoot to stand out.
    Even the Call of Duty and Battlefields of the world offer more variety and a large and deep multiplayer campaign. Wolfenstein feels ancient, almost like it belongs on the original XBOX. As for this version of Wolfenstein as a game?
    Well, It isn't the brilliant Return to Castle Wolfenstein on the original XBOX but it is a solid single player game. First of all shame on Activision. Raven Software is a great development team but Activision refuses to advertise their games. Quake 4, Soldier of Fortune, and Singularity had no advertisement and were set up to fail. Activision did the same thing to Bizarre Creations. It's a shame. As for Wolfenstein you again play B.J who is the last thing Nazi's wanna see. It is pretty obvious that Singularity was developed at the same time as Wolfenstein because both games involve going in and out of time. Even the green sheen from the veil looks just like Singularity. Basically you have to stop the Nazi's by going into the veil which is a parallel universe to stop the Nazi's from creating a weapon of mass destruction. And as always there is the Nazi backdrop where they are messing around with the super natural and doing more harm than good. But it gives Raven unlimited resources into creating a wide variety of enemies with several different powers. The game is set up in a small section of a town which is basically a hub. The problem is the hub is where you spend a third of the game and it is not really anything special. You are constantly going back and forth to find missions and fighting Nazi's. It all looks the same but at least the map is easy to navigate. Luckily once the mission starts there is a lot of variety and the game opens up a bit. The graphics which are based on the old ID engine hold up barely. There is nothing really special about the games look but it remains solid through out the game if a little bland. The environmental objects are surprisingly destructible and the lighting and textures are solid. It is a good looking game. One thing the game excels at in sound. The guns sound loud and powerful. Of course being a WWII setting all of the guns are familiar. Luckily the Nazi's have created a few gems to toy with later in the game. Most people know by now that shooters these days are around 5 to 8 hours long. However it took me about 10 hours on the normal settings. I guess it depends on the player. One thing you will not spend time with is the multiplayer. This was a disappointment. The great graphics from the single player are gone, the frame rate is suspect, the upgrade system takes way to long, and finding players on the PS3 is a choir. In fact the PS3 version suffers from glitches that have never been fixed. It is a waste of time. Here is the sad fact. Raven has made way to many games this gen with the Marvel and Wolverine games and three shooters. Singularity was in my opinion the game they really wanted to make. Even in Game Informer a while back a few of the guys even said Singularity was there most important title for them. Ironically Wolfenstein is the better single player campaign. Singularity ended up being delayed and I wonder if Activision cut them off and they had to go ahead and release it when they were not ready. So both Wolfenstein and Singularity suffered. Now Raven has basically vanished from the gaming scene and have been helping Infinity Ward with multiplayer maps. If they made one game at a time I positive both would of been better games. As it stands now Wolfenstein is a great bargain bin pick up because the single players story and missions are great. The multiplayer as disappointing as it is will not have anyone playing it anyways. Hopefully Raven will concentrate on one game at a time in the future. I good game that should of been great. Worth the $12 I spent for it but I am not sure I would spend any more    … Expand
  2. octobersky92
    Feb 7, 2012
    5
    This game was fun at first. I thought the weapons upgrades were awesome. I liked the idea I had to search for intel in order to unlock weapon upgrades and search for gold to buy them. Other then that the game became boring fast. The A.I really sucked and the missions were short and bland. Why is it that most fps are all looking like COD.
  3. MattJ
    Oct 5, 2009
    5
    It was fun at first then it got boring you started to do the same thing over and over and its short also the powers you get are not that great. I was looking forward to this game and it kinda sucked.
  4. PhilG
    Aug 19, 2009
    7
    Decent fun, but almost identical to Call of Duty (control wise and play style). Not necessarily a bad thing, but it lost some of the charm and uniqueness of the series. Also the single player is a lot lighter and more like an Indiana Jones movie, whereas the last entry (Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 2002) was very dark and had you on edge. The objective based online is a lot of fun though Decent fun, but almost identical to Call of Duty (control wise and play style). Not necessarily a bad thing, but it lost some of the charm and uniqueness of the series. Also the single player is a lot lighter and more like an Indiana Jones movie, whereas the last entry (Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 2002) was very dark and had you on edge. The objective based online is a lot of fun though and the class system gives players something to work towards. My only other gripe would be a lack of split screen play.… Expand
  5. FelipeL
    Dec 1, 2009
    7
    Good game, good graphics, reasonable AI, diferent trophies, not dispensable only for colectors or gamemanics
  6. DanL.
    Aug 24, 2009
    5
    I'm quite disapointed with Wolf, i was expecting somthing that would blow me away, but this game cant reach halfway to Call of duty - Campaign is too short, and the online part is just horrible, like really really horrible.. though i like the story behind, and i played RTCW back in the days.. Wolfensteine is past.
  7. Steelers412
    May 20, 2014
    6
    I really really WANTED to like this game! Deep down though regardless of overall good reviews I had a feelingthat it would suck which is why I checked the redbox online all day until one was in my area. So glad I went that route! This game would be great as a dl arcade game but as a full price game hell no! It's just kill a bunch of people, cut scene, kill more people. The mechanicsI really really WANTED to like this game! Deep down though regardless of overall good reviews I had a feelingthat it would suck which is why I checked the redbox online all day until one was in my area. So glad I went that route! This game would be great as a dl arcade game but as a full price game hell no! It's just kill a bunch of people, cut scene, kill more people. The mechanics themselves aren't bad but there is very little variety in terms of weaponry and paths to take. Also the graphics are almost as bad as any Nazi war crime ever committed! Absolutely unacceptably bad! I guess this game will survive if you are into mediocre mindless killing but these days most gamers are which is why the game industry puts out such trash anymore because the average consumer eats it up! All in all, pretty bad but not ENTIRELY horrible! If you have an average attention span and I.Q. expect to be entertained for about 2 hours tops!… Expand
  8. rcoberle54
    Mar 24, 2021
    6
    I played this just before xmen destiny. I forgot to post my review. After playing the new ones I knew this one wouldn't hold up to them. I liked that it had a different enough play style. The inclusion of the superpowers that you get from the ancient mystical stones is a fun direction. The semi open world aspect felt ahead of it's time. I liked that this one dove head first into theI played this just before xmen destiny. I forgot to post my review. After playing the new ones I knew this one wouldn't hold up to them. I liked that it had a different enough play style. The inclusion of the superpowers that you get from the ancient mystical stones is a fun direction. The semi open world aspect felt ahead of it's time. I liked that this one dove head first into the supernatural and mystical elements of the Wolfenstein world whereas the new ones focus more on the sci fi steam punk aspects. I liked the aesthetics of the world and it's design. It was creepy and atmospheric at times. This game felt more rooted in horror than it's successors. It's also very colorful for 2009. Most games around this era were the brown yellow nightmares like Haze. However this game's shooting is very janky. The story and the characters are the epitome of meh. Everything other than the world and some of the enemies is completely boring. This version of BJ Blazkowicz is an absolute slap in the face of the new one. This one is so generic and forgettable. I want to give a higher ranking than 6 simply because of the name recognition of Wolfenstein as I've been a fan of the series since the ps2 days, but I think a 6 is perfectly appropriate. It's no better than a timeshift. Another first person shooter that's generic and has one gimmick mechanic that works well enough.… Expand
  9. dimamachine
    Feb 17, 2021
    5
    A game with such a story could get more development in this part, playing a shooter with simple mechanics and banal missions in 2021, of course, is already very unpleasant, but for the year of its release, I think the game was quite tolerable. While playing on PS3 with such poor auto-aiming, I got terrible stress, so only fans can play this game to the end on PS3. For PCs, this problem isA game with such a story could get more development in this part, playing a shooter with simple mechanics and banal missions in 2021, of course, is already very unpleasant, but for the year of its release, I think the game was quite tolerable. While playing on PS3 with such poor auto-aiming, I got terrible stress, so only fans can play this game to the end on PS3. For PCs, this problem is not scaled down.… Expand

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71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 58 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 58
  3. Negative: 1 out of 58
  1. GameSpy
    80
    If you're into WWII shooters -- and judging by the sales of every single Call of Duty title ever, you are -- but you're looking for something with a little twist to it -- which, judging by the sales of twisty straws, you are -- and you don't mind the color green -- and judging by the number of Irish people in the world, you don't -- you should get yourself a copy of Wolfenstein.
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  2. GamesRadar+
    80
    Spot-on Wolfenstein atmosphere combines with gleefully vicious weaponry to serve up a tasty smoothie of good old-fashioned Nazi-frying. It lacks in the new idea department, but it has fun aplenty.
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  3. GamingTrend
    90
    With so much history behind the Wolfenstein series, it can be quite difficult to live up to the legacy of the games that came before you. The latest entry in the series does a fantastic job of this, from its gorgeous graphics to its solid story line; everything is well thought out and well executed. With the potential for additional multiplayer maps thrown in, this is a great value overall.
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