I remember playing this game. FPS were great back then, Half Life, Quake 3 Arena, Kingpin , Unreal Tournament, Soldier of Fortune, Hexen 2, Goldeneye, UT 2k3...
Good effort Mike, make sure to crouch so enemies don't hear your footsteps, and try to fire the automatic weapons in bursts rather than holding down the trigger, the circle around your crosshair will grow indicating the bullet spread of the weapon. You can customize your crosshair in the options menu and there's plenty to choose from. Hope to see a part 2!
I don't know if you're going to see this, but thanks for bringing back some old memories, Mike. I learned about RTCW and the franchise in general from my father. When I was still little, I used to watch him play Doom 2, Quake 2, and eventually Return to Castle Wolfenstein on his Macintosh. I loved the game so much that I had when I heard that it was coming out for the PS2 I had to have it. My parents bought it for me when I was so little that I thought the "Can I play, daddy?" difficulty was unironically meant for me lol. I was so scared by the catacomb (in the console only prequel mission) and the crypt levels that it took what felt forever for me to venture in and beat them. (Naturally I didn't replay them but I do remember bits here and there.) So you were right when you said that they don't make them like they used to anymore. It was an era where gamers didn't rush through beat a game in under a week and never play it again, and the industry by no means encouraged it or all the other bs that we have today. I can hardly wait to get around to part two and so on. And do pay more attention to the story and cutscenes, it's great! Thanks again!
this was back when you didn't need accounts to play online. Literally just copy/pasted this game on a USB for all my roommates and we played online matches for hours... Good times.
I'd just go and find random PvP matches going on and hop in. It was a surprisingly in depth and good PvP thing. And I liked how they would swap the factions of the players (and sometimes switch players around between the teams) so it didn't end up just being a Nazi Murder Simulator. Also they had you play as nazis in multiplayer. That was pretty gutsy.
I noticed @2:33:37, that you're running the game on default graphics settings (disabled dynamic lights, plus stuff that's on normal). From under system -> graphics menu you can up the texture quality. Basically you could crank everything to max. With default settings it looks kind of washed out with its muddy textures. Otherwise love your let's plays. Keep up the good work, and thanks! Btw, 2009 Wolfenstein is also pretty decent game with a semi-open world and some rpg elements. I find it much more enjoyable than New Order and New Colossus, which are dragged down by bland level design, tedious fetch missions and large quantity of long cutscenes.
@@zebunker It was the same game. You might be referring to the spin-off, Enemy Territory, which was fun but was based off the RCTW multiplayer. And it was indeed EPIC.
This was one of the games I played very often when I was a teen. It was this, half life, quake, and gta sa/half life 2 were the games that I was personally connected to.
Love RTCW, one of my favourite games ever. Thanks for covering this. Have you or James considered covering the games in the Duke Nukem series? Particularly Duke Nukem 3D and Duke Nukem Forever?
YES more old school FPS games. Alien Resurrection for PS1 would be a pretty good choice too. I haven't really seen a lot of people talk about it, for whatever reason. I think it's one of the best alien games and has some of the best graphics on PS1.
Dude this is awesome! Just played through this for the first time myself not to long ago! Great stuff, would love to see you play Duke3D, Blood,Shadow Warrior, or newer stuff like Dusk, Amid Evil or Ion Fury
This game has an interesting development story. They had built several mechanics like stealth and other types of varied missions and then it was all scrapped so that's why some of the levels are weird.
This is a great game. Its difficulty just spikes hard though, multiple times. Its entirely unforgiving. Its also interesting because it eventually shifts away from traditional FPS elements. It makes you realize you have no idea what kind of game you're really playing.
Bought this new in 2001. When I got home and tried to install it, I found out somebody at the store had scratched off the registration key, so I had to download one of those illegal key generators from Kazaa to make a new one.
Would you ever consider doing a Sekiro play-through? I know you are a fan of Castlevania and Dark Souls, and I recently watched your Ninja Gaiden videos. Just curious if you had any interest in that FromSoftware game.
YES YES YES FUCK YES FUCK YES I had this on Xbox 1 (as opposed to the Xbox 2 or 3), and it's even better on PC. Get it, it's great, and it doesn't have that woke shitlib nonsense in the newer games.
One of the reasons that Duke Nukem 3D is called “Duke Nukem 3D”, aside from being the first Duke Nukem game to be “3D”, has to do with being the third game in the Duke Nukem series. If you are planning on doing some of the Duke Nukem games, please do Duke Nukem 1 and 2 on the pc.
![[Former WR] Return to Castle Wolfenstein any% speedrun 39:56 w/o loads](/img/n.gif)
I remember playing this game. FPS were great back then, Half Life, Quake 3 Arena, Kingpin , Unreal Tournament, Soldier of Fortune, Hexen 2, Goldeneye, UT 2k3...
You are my people.
My favorite Wolfenstein, I would love a remake of this.
It's my favorite as well.
Don't know how many times I have played through it.
If they remade it BJ would be a trans African sheepkin with an anxiety disorder who eats only celery. Bad idea.
@@BoozyBeggar Hahahahahahaha 😂
True. Thanks for a good laugh.
I needed it right now.
No
@@zebunker Si
Absolutely underrated game. One of the best FPS ever, period.
I have to agree with that. Really enjoy it
No. Look at reviews from the time period.
I donno. They kind of pussied out on the gore didn't they?
@@mikematei You would LOVE soldier of fortune 2 man! (I suggest it to you every few months, one day you'll see it!) :)
Good effort Mike, make sure to crouch so enemies don't hear your footsteps, and try to fire the automatic weapons in bursts rather than holding down the trigger, the circle around your crosshair will grow indicating the bullet spread of the weapon. You can customize your crosshair in the options menu and there's plenty to choose from. Hope to see a part 2!
I don't know if you're going to see this, but thanks for bringing back some old memories, Mike. I learned about RTCW and the franchise in general from my father. When I was still little, I used to watch him play Doom 2, Quake 2, and eventually Return to Castle Wolfenstein on his Macintosh. I loved the game so much that I had when I heard that it was coming out for the PS2 I had to have it. My parents bought it for me when I was so little that I thought the "Can I play, daddy?" difficulty was unironically meant for me lol. I was so scared by the catacomb (in the console only prequel mission) and the crypt levels that it took what felt forever for me to venture in and beat them. (Naturally I didn't replay them but I do remember bits here and there.) So you were right when you said that they don't make them like they used to anymore. It was an era where gamers didn't rush through beat a game in under a week and never play it again, and the industry by no means encouraged it or all the other bs that we have today. I can hardly wait to get around to part two and so on. And do pay more attention to the story and cutscenes, it's great! Thanks again!
this was the greatest era of pc fps gaming and by extension fps gaming in general, so many great titles on win 98
I love all Wolfenstein games i remeber when i was a kid playing old Wolfenstein in old PC great memorys
Wolfenstein 2009 is my favorite one but this is a close second
this was back when you didn't need accounts to play online. Literally just copy/pasted this game on a USB for all my roommates and we played online matches for hours... Good times.
I'd just go and find random PvP matches going on and hop in. It was a surprisingly in depth and good PvP thing. And I liked how they would swap the factions of the players (and sometimes switch players around between the teams) so it didn't end up just being a Nazi Murder Simulator. Also they had you play as nazis in multiplayer. That was pretty gutsy.
I noticed @2:33:37, that you're running the game on default graphics settings (disabled dynamic lights, plus stuff that's on normal). From under system -> graphics menu you can up the texture quality. Basically you could crank everything to max. With default settings it looks kind of washed out with its muddy textures.
Otherwise love your let's plays. Keep up the good work, and thanks!
Btw, 2009 Wolfenstein is also pretty decent game with a semi-open world and some rpg elements. I find it much more enjoyable than New Order and New Colossus, which are dragged down by bland level design, tedious fetch missions and large quantity of long cutscenes.
Love these old run-and-gun FPS games from back in the day. :)
This is such a great game. I spent a lot of time on this on my og xbox
Ah yes, the Xbox 1. Someday maybe MicroSoft will learn how to count as well as I can.
@@BoozyBeggar 🤣🤣
want to play co op thru system link 'online' on Xlink Kai with me?
@@nickm5419 wait what? Im not up to speed on stuff, you can still get online on OG xbox?
*shoots one bullet, instantly reloads* Right there proves mike is a real gamer.
You should play Soldier of Fortune, Mike it's very similar to Return to CW. Early 2000s graphics and fps gameplay plus you can enemy limbs off
1:20:00 and now the game starts for real. I'm happy that no one spoiled it in chat XD and yeah we totally knew what was coming
this game was the shit, the multiplayer I played FOR YEARS. It was excellent.
@@stinkfinga4918 enemy territory baby
@@Illumirage if you have the Xbox original version you can still play online using system link paired with Xlink kai
@@nickm5419 dang, always been a PS guy....
But I played it on computer way back when. Only way to play. Modded servers were insane.
Please play the Commander Keen series sometime.
beat it on the original Xbox. Great game.
49:50 I wonder what chat's reaction during all this was.
This is one of my all-time top list games!
This game was EPIC for multiplayer.
No. That was a different seperate game.
Yes! We used to storm the beach and drink beer 🍺 for hours! Objective taken!
@@zebunker It was the same game. You might be referring to the spin-off, Enemy Territory, which was fun but was based off the RCTW multiplayer. And it was indeed EPIC.
This was one of the games I played very often when I was a teen. It was this, half life, quake, and gta sa/half life 2 were the games that I was personally connected to.
Me and a friend were talking about this game Saturday until then I hadn't heard it brought up in like 10 years
4:49 I thought that the statue had an erection, I didn't realize that it was the stem for a sword, lol
50:25 I think he's dead guy! LOL!
This game is still better than Wolfenstein Youngblood
Yep, that's true.
Still behind the times Mike with not porting the audio so we can hear the lovely sounds and music.
I'm not behind the times. It's do to my preferences. Please read. www.mikematei.com/blog/mike-matei-live-faq/
I still have this for PS3. One of the first and very best PS3 titles.
Mike, you just so innocently asked the long running joke between a friend and I...."Didn't you download the map yet?" To every Wolf game ever.
Love RTCW, one of my favourite games ever. Thanks for covering this. Have you or James considered covering the games in the Duke Nukem series? Particularly Duke Nukem 3D and Duke Nukem Forever?
This is an excellent game, but hard as fuck at later levels, especially those stealth and lab missions
a fav childhood pc game here, love this one
Instead of reloading switch to a different gun that's already full. It's faster, than reloading the same gun.
its hard to do quickly
That's what she said....
YES more old school FPS games. Alien Resurrection for PS1 would be a pretty good choice too. I haven't really seen a lot of people talk about it, for whatever reason. I think it's one of the best alien games and has some of the best graphics on PS1.
It's not old school. Just dated. Has all features of modern shooters, just old.
Two words: Paratrooper Rifle
308 43:13 Duke 3d rabbit hole.
I loved the multiplayer on this game.
I remember this one. This was a great game back in the day. Stick with it, shit gets serious at the end.....
Dude this is awesome! Just played through this for the first time myself not to long ago! Great stuff, would love to see you play Duke3D, Blood,Shadow Warrior, or newer stuff like Dusk, Amid Evil or Ion Fury
When you get to the tombs and fight those corpses that come back to life if you don't shoot them enough, those levels are the hardest
I'd like to see ya try Soldier Of Fortune on PC Mike :D
KatanaGaming I concur, that game was rad
This game has an interesting development story. They had built several mechanics like stealth and other types of varied missions and then it was all scrapped so that's why some of the levels are weird.
having to look at keyboard every time you reload, ah the nostalgia, not looked at my keyboard in years unless im typing
Mike you should try out the PC Version of Soldier of Fortune 2, great Game, great gore
You mean soldier of fortune 1 right? thought two wasnt as good maybe Im wrong.
@@115spt2 it was 3 that was terrible
@@stevedave8283 Yeah I heard it sucked but I want to see how bad it is, thankfully all the Soldier of Fortune games are on GOG.
@@115spt2 i like both games, 3 was bs
Thanks for playing this game . I needed this in "meiny laiben"
This is a great game. Its difficulty just spikes hard though, multiple times. Its entirely unforgiving. Its also interesting because it eventually shifts away from traditional FPS elements. It makes you realize you have no idea what kind of game you're really playing.
Damn I don't think you can handle a game of this calabre,this excellence Mike.
You mean the secrets? Or chat or what?
The enemy animations remind me of (albeit a slightly improved) Goldeneye from the N64
... or Quake 2 :)
2:05:22 you killed that babe. Kinda romantic how they're laying though lol
Bought this new in 2001. When I got home and tried to install it, I found out somebody at the store had scratched off the registration key, so I had to download one of those illegal key generators from Kazaa to make a new one.
back then that was a total dick move and a pain in the ass
MEIN LIEBEN
Much better than the last one.
Amazing game
Always preferred Wolfenstein to Doom.
I love both series and they're about even for me.
This looks remarkably good for a 2001 game!
I want a mike matei plushie.
This game is 16 years old. How do you not know about the paranormal division of the SS ???
well if you ever learned history it was in the 1930s. so its 85 year old news. yes it was a real thing.
Ya. That's a big if. And the paranormal division of the SS was 1940s.
@@mrmurphy172 while there was no exact 'division' Himmler was looking into the paranormal starting in 1930s
Mike, they also have Duke nukem advance. I still own Duke nukem land of the babes. I seriously enjoy all Duke nukem games.
1:51:40 lmao
This was the first/best FPS on Xbox Live. Played it til they shut the servers down.
Theirs a way to make em work trough modding.
309 1:51:36. B17. Baaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh lol
Use you brain when play :-D
Great fps and the multiplayer is good too
Haha Just got this myself on GOG looks pretty cool, right on Mike! you should play Moon Crystal NES / Famicom try to beat that one Live!
I love that game and the other parts yo!!!!
Have you played New Colossus and New Order?
I believe he said he played The New Order, I'm not sure about The New Colossus.
It's always C! jeez Louise Mike!
Please play tides of war!
I hope you treat your girlfriend the same as that f5 button. Dear lord.
as of this post i'm playing with you mike lol phone on the side watching this pc in front playing, my old a$$ pentium 4 windows 7 lol emachines
Hey man Looney toons video game marathon dresses as buggs come on man i know you are reading these comments hahaha
Conquest of the crystal Palace(nes)
Would you ever consider doing a Sekiro play-through?
I know you are a fan of Castlevania and Dark Souls, and I recently watched your Ninja Gaiden videos.
Just curious if you had any interest in that FromSoftware game.
He played Sekiro and may or may not go back to that game.
Hell yea !!!! You da man mike !!!
Speaking of duke nukem try out the PS1 version Total Meltdown
Fuck I am old.
Duke Nukem Forever 3D mod
since this is pc game
now mike must play some dead space
Why don't you try the actual castle wolfenstein for the commodore 64, this is way too modern looking.
YES YES YES FUCK YES FUCK YES
I had this on Xbox 1 (as opposed to the Xbox 2 or 3), and it's even better on PC. Get it, it's great, and it doesn't have that woke shitlib nonsense in the newer games.
Play the 2006 wolfenstein on xbox 360
He may or may not play it since people told him it's not so good.
BTW you meant the 2009 one, there was no new Wolfenstein game in 2006.
Mike matei should play half life
Zombie time
Awesome
Hi MiKE MATEL CAN I PLAY A ViDEO GAMES WiTH YOU
Oh bad, bad, bad choice. Come on man.
ASSHOLE!
@@sergeantbatman so commenting about him using the wrong weapon makes me an asshole? Alrighty
One of the reasons that Duke Nukem 3D is called “Duke Nukem 3D”, aside from being the first Duke Nukem game to be “3D”, has to do with being the third game in the Duke Nukem series. If you are planning on doing some of the Duke Nukem games, please do Duke Nukem 1 and 2 on the pc.