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Raven working on Wolfenstein sequel
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 15th May 2007
With Raven planning to release a new Wolfenstein game in 2008, seven years since the last title in the series.
The Wolfenstein series is often regarded as the grandfather of modern video games, pre-dating even the mighty Doom and made by the same team at id Software. Contrary to popular belief though, Wolfenstein did not start as a first person shooter but as a 2D adventure game developed by Muse Software for the Atari. id Software drew inspiration from this game and released Wolfenstein 3D, in one move changing the face of computer games forever.
The effects of Wolfenstein on popular culture can still be felt today and fans of the game can enjoy some retro fun here.
Raven, who previously created games like Heretic, Jedi Knight II and Quake 4, are now in charge of the new, un-suffixed Wolfenstein title, which will sequel Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Details have emerged that one of the games main characters will be Carrie Coon, billed as a "Sensual, strong, arrogant woman" who wears stilettos. Stereotypes are cast aside in this game about evil, voodoo using Nazi's then.
The theatre graduate who did the motion capture scenes for Carrie revealed how bizarre it was to work with Raven;
"They had me kind of bust through doors with big guns and pretend I was an assassin being that didn't have a spine and club a body of something on the ground and sniff it. You know, it was one of the most bizarre audition experiences I've ever had in my life."
If the game is half as scary as the developers sound then it'll turn out a treat then.
Want to get all melancholy about the golden age of computer gaming and how it may arise again, or are you the pessimistic type who thinks Raven are bound to ruin an excellent series? Share your thoughts in the forums.
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i'm sure this'll be decent, quake 4 wasnt too bad :)
on a positive note, YES its back! i remember geforce 4 days, the last one looked great at 1280x1024 with everything turned on, but that did cause an upgrade to my old 6800GT, lol!
Which part of Quake 4 wasn't bad? The failry decent multiplayer, or the ****, bland and paint-by-numbers singleplayer?
Ha.
*bitch slaps Joe*
You enjoyed it! Even if it was rather paint by numbers.
RTCW on the other hand was a SWEET game, great graphics, well put together story line, brilliantly moving between real-life war scenes and sci-fi/horror levels without any kinds of seam. Plus, despite it's age, it still has the prettiest flame thrower EVER by a very long mile. Had everything really, tanks, planes, good sniper levels, lots of Nazis with good AI, stealth kills, lyrca clad vixens, zombies, mechanical super soilders and a Tesla coil you could carry around with you, sweet! I remember the map developers being all chuffed with themselves because they made a map that was nearly too big for the Q3 map editor (it was the cable car level if anyone's interested). It even had Rob Zombie as the game boss, could this game do no wrong?
I've faith in Raven as a developer as well, despite Q4's rather none innovative gameplay, JK2 was an excellent game, thorougly enjoyed that one.
Oh and who can forget RTCW's multiplayer! It was AMAZING! Gave birth to Enemey Territory and everything! Plus you could set people on fire and watch them piss themselves! Or was that Postal 2? Either way, all round brilliant game, and one that really stands the test of time as well, I played it again last year and it's still an awful lot of fun, the graphics don't even really look dated, only the lighting is a little static. And the flame thrower is still so, so beautiful.
But this is great news.
I was just about to say. I play TC:E, a mod for ET pretty much every day. Enemy Territory is 4 years old.
They did indeed do that in postal 2 :D but only they would wet themselfs, if you used the taser/stun gun toomuch ;)
although in postal you could stun gun the person to the ground untill they unconscious then set the person on fire, piss on them to put them out, they would wake and start walking around like a chargrilled zombie :D
Damn, I don't know which I want more now, this or Alan Wake..
I've been anticipating this since its announcement back in 2005. More stereotypes, less PCness, more Nazis and more occult zombies!
...however, the old post that was link from this post had a short comment at the end that made me think...
how long does it take before theres a movie came out about it too?
personally, i didnt see how Doom can be a full length movie, but had good hopes, coz, albeit the simplicity, there IS a storyline.... then the movie turned out suck.
but with Wolfenstein... hmmm there is definitely a brilliant storyline.... but how Hollywood can squeeze that to a 2hr movie is beyond me, really....
The storyline, the multiplayer maps... one of the best
I still remember the nocturnal missions in the original Wolfenstein.
this is gonna rock.
RTCW has to be the best single player FPS i have ever played. theres just something about going back to WW2 and focusing on all the crazy experimental stuffs the nazi's got up to, its way more interesting to speculate about possibly how technologically advanced they really were.
so much better than the usal normandy landings, or d-day or the bridge.
i think im gonna dig it out and play it again, i think its the only FPS that genuinely had me a bit scared towards the end with those wierd monsters that run around on their hands