Hungry like the wolf

This weekend I’ve been playing Wolfenstein 3d. Yep, the original and still the best. True the shooter genre may have had major changes in the wake of Half Life and Deus Ex but honestly? There still exists and want to just switch one’s mind off, garb the biggest gun you can think of and mow down anything dumb enough to stand in your way. And that’s a need Wolf3d fulfills nicely. It may be twenty one years old but it’s appeal still stands strong.

Okay sure it’s odd to walk about the most incoherently designed stronghold(s) imaginable, sure there are enough soldiers to invade an entire country and there’s a stupidly large amount of gold stashed in the bases, but I don’t care. I’m willing to tolerate the dated graphics and the whole cheesy dialogue (“Spion!”,”Mein leben!”). If anything, there is a certain charm to the graphics as it’s hilarious to see the body count of an intense bout of shooting:

If anything, get past the realism and the hyper-serious nature of shooters and all is left is the desire just to shoot so many dudes with a chain gun. I could say they don’t make ’em like they used to but you know what? They don’t