Wolfenstein for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Short and sweet review...Great game 4 years ago . Story was great and exciting but like most of us the MP is where the fun is at. No distructible elements , laggy , poor selection of weapons, and no vehicles in multipayer. In my opinion i thought it was boring.

The original Wolfenstein 3D was the game that started it all for me back in the day - the first video game that I found truly addictive (I begged a friend to let me "housesit" for him while he was gone for the weekend, just so I could play it from start to finish on his 486 PC with a whopping 8MB of RAM!)

I've played every iteration of the game that has been released since, and can easily say that this is the most fun to date (although 2001's Return to Castle Wolfenstein was also a solid remake). Obviously, the game has come a long ways graphically in 9 years, but it's a variety of other improvements that make this game stand out from its predecessors.

Wolfenstein introduces more of a "sandbox" based environment, with the city of Isenstadt serving as the central hub of the game. it is an area of several city blocks which can be freely explored for intel items and, most importantly, treasure. However, unlike in the previous games where you collected treasure simply for the joy of it (and to get that perfect level completion), you can now actually use it to purchase weapons upgrades in several black market shops scattered about.

Combat is also quite brutal, with plenty of arterial spray, exploding heads, and flying limbs (mounted machine guns do especially gruesome damage, and flamethrowers leave charred corpses). The combat feels very similar to the Call of Duty games (not a bad thing), only gorier (also not a bad thing).

Missions given to you by characters in the game will lead you to the main levels of the game, which are more of the traditional linear kind. But the main sandbox area adds several hours of exploring and fighting nazis in random encounters. You also have access to high tech energy weapons, and "veil" powers which allow you to find hidden areas and dispatch enemies easier.

I can only speak for the single player campaign, since I did not try the multiplay, but I found Wolfenstein to be a polished and worthy addition to the franchise.