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WolfenDooM: Arctic Wolf


NOTE! In the review I mention some bugs of this WolfenDoom episode... Patches to fix the problems are released on the WolfenDooM homepage (link in the bottom of text).

You can see the regular screenshots in the right, but for some jokes that I found in the game, you can go here!

First I have to say that this game is absolutely the BEST WolfenDoom episode ever released (of those that I have played :) ). The file you have to download is huge, but IMO it really is worth the downloading... To help your decision I have taken more screenshots than I have taken from any add-on ever! 24 normal screenshots, and 5 screenies from the jokes that are hidden in the game!

When I started to play first level, the first thing I thought was that, yeah this looks quite good indeed... The second thing that I noticed was that it's not so easy either... After finishing the first level I knew that this was going to be a hard mission! After few levels it felt like getting a bit easyer, but soon it changed back to difficlt stuff again... And this time it was even harder than first! In this episode you get hurt easy and health is hard to find, so try to keep yourself from getting shot... Coz when you have only 1% of health left and next health pack is 1 kilometer from you, it's not going to be easy to get it! Trust me, I have experienced it now!

Graphics in this add-on are excellent! Some are clearly stolen from other games, but that doesn't matter... What matters is that excellent set of textures is used in most excellent ways to give really good looking levels to play! Lot's of metal and stone is used through all levels...

Underwater areas add a nice twist to the game... Arctic Wolf is designed for normal DooM, so even when playing with BooM there isn't new colormaps for underwater areas, but they have dealth with it very nicely by giving scuba gears for player... Scuba gears keep you from dying underwater and change the colors that you see to fit better to underwater areas...

Enemies... There's a nice variety of them... There are several different regular soldier types... Some die easyer than others, and some use heavyer weapons than others... Then there is a bunch of really bad guys... They are always big & ugly, and they seem to look a bit same... They can shoot you with machine gun fire, rockets or even with fire! Watch out, because in some cases they can be _very_ nasty!
Oh, and then there is a lot of really weak dogs... Sometimes you can kill 3 of them with one shot of "weapon 3"... If you don't like killing animals, then try not to shoot them :) That could add some challenge to the game :)

There's also machine guns that automatically start to shoot you... Smallers ones are easy to destroy, but the bigger ones (usually attached on submarines) are really bad... They are harder to destroy and they really can kill you fast!

Your weapons are quite usual... From rifles to machine guns, rocket launchers and possibly to flamethrowers that I didn't find for some reason...

Last I have to note that this top-quality project has a bug... Never use all of your ammo and never change to knife (replaces the fists), because there is a bug in it... Later this bug got fixed, and you can download new patches to get it working properly from WolfenDooM homepage.

Final comments
Even if I would try to find all possible negative things from this episode, I'm sure that I couldn't drop this to 4-star review! It's just so damn well done, and so good add-on that I have to give it full 5-stars! Just watch out you that are not ready for a big challenge! Don't you start on Ultra Violence if your not a good player, because it's not going to be easy!

Here's a quick summary:
The look: Partly classic Wolfenstein style and partly something new & great
Sounds: Very good, but sometimes you can get bored for the yellings of nazis
The feel: Mostly excellent... Sometimes can be a bit frustrating, but only rarely
Hardness: Phew... This one was hardy! Watch out your health, coz there's not much medipacks around
Mindwork: Not much needed, but look carefully around some places...

Points: *****

Download: ARCTIC.ZIP (5 435Kb)
Homepage: www.doomworld.com/wolfendoom/index.shtml


Those dogs are quite easy to kill...

Very good looking levels indeed...

Rooms are filled with nazi posters.

Underwater areas with mean sharks in them!

Just another simple, and yet good looking place.

Those fans are cool...


Die, nazi pig!

Sharks are not the only danger under the water!

Through the air tunnels we go...

Just another room.

Nazi war ships.

Although this mission happens in Norway, Finland also shows quite well on that map :)

Looks like a real nuthead!

I'm not sure who that man on the wall is, but I believe that he wasn't very nice...

Jefferson Airplane? No! Nazi airplane!

There's a pic of one of their subs...

There's some pictures of sharks... Before I didn't know that shark is "Hai" in germany too...
In the shark pool we go...

This place is filled with subs...

So, here's one that isn't quite ready yet :)

That's THE submarine...

There it goes now :)

One more crazy nazi bastard to kill...