20-Year-Old Free-to-Play Wolfenstein Game Releases on Steam
The Wolfenstein franchise is one of the longest running series in gaming, with the first game being released in 1981. But it wasn’t until 1992 with Wolfenstein 3D that the series found its true foundation as a first-person shooter, which is a genre that Wolfenstein is often credited with pioneering. The series has been rebooted multiple times since then, both successfully and unsuccessfully. The most recent reboot came in 2014 withWolfenstein: The New Order.
The current canon of games moves the story forward from its World War 2 shooter roots and into a dystopian future where the Nazis are in power. But before that, there were many games made by many developers, which took full advantage Wolfenstein's original WW2 setting.
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Now one such game is finally getting a release on Steam. First launched in 2003 and developed by Splash Damage, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a class-based multiplayer shooter in the same vein as Overwatch or Team Fortress. What made the game stand out, though, was its relatively massive matches for 2003, which allowed for 32 players at once. The free-to-play game was originally meant to be a multiplayer DLC for the previous game, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which was developed by Gray Matter Interactive. The game was instead released as a standalone and was very well received. It even got a pseudo-sequel game outside the Wolfenstein brand a few years later named Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
The game has still been available to play on other platforms, and the original developer’s website has detailed instructions on how the game can be played on modern PCs. But now that the game has released on Steam, it's likely that the existingWolfenstein:
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