If the prisoner is successful and escapes together with the plans, they are promoted to a higher rank and can play again at a new level of difficulty (there are eight ranks in total).Įach room in the castle is depicted using a top-down viewĪccording to the TV Tropes pop-culture wiki, the original version of the game featured the following (more or less) self-explanatory introductory text: The object of the game is for the prisoner to negotiate the various levels within the castle, find a set of secret Nazi war plans, and escape. The movements and actions of the prisoner are controlled by the player. The game is set in World War II, and the game's main character (who is never actually named) is a prisoner held in a Nazi fortress (the aforementioned Castle Wolfenstein). The Castle Wolfenstein program itself was primarily the work of Silas Warner, and is noteworthy not only because it is one of the first games of its kind ever written, but also because it broke new ground in terms of what was technically possible for computer games. The company initially set out to write computer games for the Apple II personal computer, but later expanded their ambitions to include other popular personal computer systems, including the Commodore 64, Atari's eight-bit personal computers, and the IBM PC. The game was developed by the Baltimore-based company Muse Software (the name was derived from the term Micro Users Software Exchange) founded in 1978 by Ed Zaron, Silas Warner and Jim Black, who had met whilst working for finance company Commercial Credit. The term action-adventure is a fairly wide ranging one, but it too is appropriate for this game. There are however occasions where our hero must resort to the use of weapons, hence the game is also a shooter. The term stealth is used to illustrate the fact that the game's main character spends a lot of their time trying to evade capture rather than seeking confrontation.
Stealth game / action adventure / shooterĬastle Wolfenstein is variously described as a stealth game, an action-adventure game, and a shooter, and frequently as all three.
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