You pick up treasure, health supplies, ammunition, find secret levels and battle the forces of Nazi Germany along the way. Using DOSBox, I just played the game again (for perhaps the 10,000th time). You can run the game in an emulator (a good Open Source one is DOSBox), directly from Windows XP, or straight from a USB flash drive. For a 3D action game that only weighs 2+ megabytes, and takes up only minuscule memory on today’s PCs, this is still a highly enjoyable game. Today, everyone regards Wolfenstein as the granddaddy of all 3D games, because that was the game that launched it all. If you want a very light, playable, 3D game, Wolfenstein 3D still rocks. So recently, when I looked it up, I was pleasantly surprised to see the game still alive and kicking on its 17th birthday, and it has even been ported onto so many platforms like Gameboy, Atari, Apple Mac, and the iPhone. Check out over twenty free, standalone games made using that piece of open-source gold here.I am a fan of DOS games, and I used to play this game a lot, many years ago – Wolfenstein 3D. Although the most active is, of course, Doom. It's great to see some folks still holding a torch for the DOS games that defined so much of what we know now. Alternatively, you could play the glitchy HHH, a tribute to the fragility of old DOS games. Sadly it requires some assembly, including a commercial copy of Wolfenstein 3D, but that's easily bought these days. Not quite a remake, and it's not quite a sequel, but it is a bizarre tribute to a game that arguably never should have existed. Short and janky adventure games, they somehow spawned two sequels, and then a truly bizarre first-person shooter spinoff called Nitemare 3D. I grew up on a diet of weird shareware, and not much could out-weird the old Hugo's House Of Horrors series. Total Conversion on Mod DB, requires ECWolf and Wolfenstein 3D. Also, flintlock rifles take a while to reload, and it has to be done so manually, so it's less of a run-and-gun experience, at least at first. Starting out with just a hook-hand, you'll earn money as you fight, and can trade it in for permanent character upgrades when you bump into merchants. Because there are stats now, and other light RPG bits. Each of the four age-of-sail superpowers available gives you a buff to one of your stats. A sprawling pirate adventure that instead of asking you for a difficulty setting at start, asks you for a nationality. It's more Wolfenstein, but cyber-gothic, and that's okay. The snappy pistol that fires almost as fast as you can click helps, too. It feels a little more modern than Wolf 3D, thanks to borrowing its sprites and audio from an assortment of Doom-era games and beyond. It's a full six-episode game, with a surprising amount of written story, and even diary notes to read in the levels for hints to secrets. A sequel to an old mod called Project X, it swaps out Nazis for the next best thing to shoot: Vampires and their minions. The most technically polished of the three. Project X: Insurrection by RichterBelmont12 It's proof that if you give fans the right tools, they'll keep hammering away until the cows come home, leave and then come home again. We've got pirates in The Golden Parrot, we've got vampires in Project X: Insurrection and we've got a bizarre tribute to an even more bizarre DOS game in Nitemare: Hugo's Revenge. In the past six days, there's been three impressive total conversions released for the great grandaddy of the modern FPS, two of which are entirely standalone. It has been a bizarrely busy week for Wolfenstein 3D mods.
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