It has been a bizarrely busy week for Wolfenstein 3D mods. In the previous six days, there’s been three spectacular whole conversions launched for the nice grandaddy of the trendy FPS, two of that are fully standalone. We’ve acquired pirates in The Golden Parrot, we’ve acquired vampires in Project X: Insurrection and we’ve acquired a weird tribute to an much more weird DOS game in Nitemare: Hugo’s Revenge. It’s proof that in case you give followers the suitable instruments, they’ll maintain hammering away till the cows come residence, depart after which come residence once more. Take a peek on the three games under.
Project X: Insurrection by RichterBelmont12
Standalone, grab it here on Mod DB.
The most technically polished of the three. A sequel to an outdated mod referred to as Project X, it swaps out Nazis for the following smartest thing to shoot: Vampires and their minions. It’s a full six-episode game, with a stunning quantity of written story, and even diary notes to learn within the ranges for hints to secrets and techniques. It feels a bit of extra fashionable than Wolf 3D, because of borrowing its sprites and audio from an assortment of Doom-era games and past. The snappy pistol that fires virtually as quick as you may click on helps, too. It’s extra Wolfenstein, however cyber-gothic, and that’s okay.
The Golden Parrot by Fraggeur
Standalone, grab it here on Mod DB.
The weirdest right here, game-wise. A sprawling pirate journey that as an alternative of asking you for an issue setting at begin, asks you for a nationality. Each of the 4 age-of-sail superpowers accessible offers you a buff to considered one of your stats. Because there are stats now, and different gentle RPG bits. Starting out with only a hook-hand, you’ll earn cash as you battle, and might commerce it in for everlasting character upgrades while you stumble upon retailers. Also, flintlock rifles take some time to reload, and it must be performed so manually, so it’s much less of a run-and-gun expertise, no less than at first.
Nitemare: Hugo’s Revenge by AstroCreep
Total Conversion on Mod DB, requires ECWolf and Wolfenstein 3D.
I grew up on a weight-reduction plan of bizarre shareware, and never a lot might out-weird the outdated Hugo’s House Of Horrors collection. Short and janky journey games, they by some means spawned two sequels, after which a really weird first-person shooter spinoff referred to as Nitemare 3D. Not fairly a remake, and it’s not fairly a sequel, however it’s a weird tribute to a game that arguably by no means ought to have existed. Sadly it requires some meeting, together with a business copy of Wolfenstein 3D, however that’s simply purchased nowadays. Alternatively, you possibly can play the glitchy HHH, a tribute to the fragility of outdated DOS games.
That’s an actual journey by reminiscence lane. It’s nice to see some people nonetheless holding a torch for the DOS games that outlined a lot of what we all know now. Heck, there’s nonetheless a ZZT mod scene. Although probably the most lively is, in fact, Doom. Check out over twenty free, standalone games made using that piece of open-source gold here.
