Arbitrary Gun Power: 9mm ammo does more damage when fired by the Sten than it does when fired by the MP40.Basically, they are Deathshead's "hunting dogs". Angry Guard Dog: The X-Shepherds, which appear only in Tides of War, are fresh dog corpses fused with spare parts from Proto-Soldiers.They are also reportedly bound together as part of a witch's coven. Amazon Brigade: The Elite Guard are an all-female group of bodyguards to a Nazi commander by the name of Helga von Bulow, who is as mean as her name suggests.is specifically noted to belong to the SS, instead of having regular Wehrmacht troops mixed in with them. Also, unlike most other World War II shooters, every German soldier encountered by B.J. In reality, he was one of the more effective and benevolent Holy Roman Emperors who ended the Magyar invasions of Europe and helped create the modern German nation.
On the other hand, this is balanced out by portraying Heinrich I as an evil conqueror, dark warlord, and Sealed Evil in a Can who presaged the dark machinations of the Third Reich.
On the one hand, there are numerous German civilians in the levels, German resistance fighters (the Kreisau Circle) are essential allies without which the game cannot be won, and some levels feature NPCs whose death gives a Non-Standard Game Over, especially if the player causes it. A Father to His Men: It's easy to miss, but one Nazi officer in the village can be overheard lamenting how their own men were sealed in the catacombs.Admiring the Abomination: Deathshead can't stop gushing about his Super-Soldier during the Boss Battle, saying things like "Thus we see the superiority of the machine over flesh and blood.".Castle Wolfenstein, or at least a part of it, becomes abandoned late in the game as it gets overrun by zombies.
It's the third Id entry (fifth in general) of the Wolfenstein franchise, and a Non-Linear Sequel to Wolfenstein 3-D. It uses id Software's IdTech3 engine, and it was released in 2001, twenty years after the release of the very first game in the series, Castle Wolfenstein. Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a First-Person Shooter game developed by Gray Matter Studios note who were previously Xatrix Entertainment, best known for Redneck Rampage, Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning and Kingpin: Life of Crime, and who would eventually merge with Treyarch, best known for the Call of Duty: Black Ops series and published by Activision.