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45s, but not with the incredibly profuse Lugers?), it's safe to say that it ranks among the best FPS arsenals around. The selection of weapons is well-implemented enough that, despite minor quibbles (why is there a shotgun, but almost no ammo for it? Why can the player perform woo-style two-fisted gunplay with the rare Colt.

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The report of the larger guns made a crack so loud it seems like the world is ending-exactly as they should. Wolfenstein doesn't suffer from this particular malady. One of the most overlooked facets of gun design in FPS games is the tendency to make them sound too muted. There is a wide selection of weapons on display, most of them fairly historically accurate, and all of them fun to use. Which makes it lucky that the fundamentals of FPSs are so well-respected here, ensuring that even if the villains aren't that interesting, they're always a blast to shoot at. The bio-mechanoid monsters that appear towards the end of the game are even worse-there's nothing here that any experienced first-person shooter (FPS) player hasn't seen a thousand times before. All of the zombies are painted with a muted brown and gray color scheme that makes them as dull to look at as they are to fight. While the human villains are designed with some creativity and style, their uniforms distinctive, and, in the case of the Paratrooper, frighteningly memorable, the game's monsters are drab and lifeless. Perhaps they were only included because zombies are the only more popular video game enemies than Nazis, and the developers were trying to hedge their bets. The game contains some of the most ill-conceived and uninteresting undead villains ever to be programmed into a game. The second the game moves into more far-fetched horror and science fiction elements, though, the game begins to fall apart. When the game sticks to putting the player in ruined cities battling soldiers room-to-room, everything works. It's almost as if the game's designers understood what they were 'supposed' to be doing at a subconscious level. This is both the game's greatest strength, because it gives players exactly what they want and expect, and its greatest flaw. Wolfenstein follows this formula with slavish, almost cynical fervor. Put the player in a location with some semblance of historical accuracy, point them in the general direction of the Germans are, and let them run straight at the opposition, guns blazing. Games like Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Tides Of War follow a very strict formula. Putting a swastika on something in a videogame is arguably more effective than a bull's eye if one is trying to get players to shoot it. Most fictional villains since the Second World War have been, in one way or another, just rehashes of Hitler's armies. The assumption is made that the gamer won't require any exposition at all. Just including Nazis in a game provides the ultimate storytelling shortcut for a game's designers. The combination of imperialism with an eye on world domination, their stylized, often black outfits and the pure incomprehensible nightmare of the Holocaust have left the Germans as the world's default villains. More than sixty years later they remain the perfect villains, simply because they were so amazingly, unfathomably evil. So where do the developers go for inspiration? All the wars since Vietnam have been short and fairly dull. There's a general consensus that the Vietnam War was a huge mistake, and far too depressing to make a game about-although that taboo is starting to crumble. But which war? The Great War and the Korean War are fairly inaccessible, as evidenced by the fact that no one in the general public seems to know exactly why they happened, or who 'we' (by which, of course, I mean the American public for whom most of these games are made) were fighting. The most obvious explanation for the genre's continuing popularity is that gamers seem to love action, and the most obvious place to look for action is during a war. It seems that as long as there are videogames, there will be military-themed videogames.