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One of the greatest FPS games ever returns with a huge new VR port

It has been twenty-three years since Return to Castle Wolfenstein arrived on the scene and left its mark on multiplayer FPS game design forever. Prestigious as its online component is, its oft-underappreciated single player campaign remains a fantastic time and appears all the more so played with this transformative VR port.


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The Xbox Bethesda showcase is sure to bring some Starfield news please, but many fans (including us) are hoping to finally get a Wolfenstein 3 reveal. Even if it does, it'll likely still be a long way off, but what might ease the wait is a Return to Castle Wolfenstein ray tracing mod.


The newer Wolfenstein games by Machine Games are fantastic but there's something really special about 2001's Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It's had plenty of mods in its time - including a recent effort to recreate the lost Enemy Territory single-player expansion - but it's still looking a bit long in the tooth at this point, despite the overhaul mod released a few years ago.


Well, if Doom can get ray tracing, so can the best Wolfenstein game - and this isn't coming from a regular fan, either. Dihara Wijetunga is a senior graphics research and development engineer at AMD and they're creating a Wolf PT mod - no, not that PT, this is a "real-time path tracer" mod with "a custom DX12 backend."


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Fans have recreated Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's cut single-player campaign

Return to Castle Wolfenstein gets an overhaul mod next month

Fans have recreated Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's cut single-player campaign

A modder has taken aim at recreating the long-lost Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory single-player campaign as part of the game's 20th-anniversary celebration. The campaign expansion, which was supposed to come out in 2003, has been fully reimagined - and is now available on Steam.


Enemy Territory was originally meant to be a full paid expansion to 2001's Return To Castle Wolfenstein reboot, but the single-player side reportedly ran into development problems and was removed. The multiplayer - by Gears Tactics developer Splash Damage - was released in 2003 for free, where it proved incredibly popular.


While nothing official of the single-player side has been released, modder William Faure has recreated the campaign based on Return To Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory's multiplayer maps - complete with voice acting - which can be installed along with the RealRTCW overhaul mod that released on Steam in October. Simply download Return To Castle Wolfenstein and the RealRTCW mod on Steam, then subscribe to the single-player add-on on Steam Workshop. You can now head into RealRTCW and launch the new campaign via the Add-Ons menu.


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Return to Castle Wolfenstein gets an overhaul mod next month

Return to Castle Wolfenstein gets an overhaul mod next month

Fans have been hard at work overhauling just about everything in Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The overhaul mod is called RealRTCW, and it comes with a new renderer, expanded arsenal, rebalanced guns, and host of improvements to models, textures, and sounds. It's nearly done, too, and will be available to download on Steam October 15.


The modders explain that the project comes with widescreen support, high-quality sounds, and x64 support thanks to the ioRTCW engine it's based on. There's also a new difficulty system and reworked AI, so expect enemies to act a bit differently. The mod also introduces new holdable items such as Adrenaline and Bandages.


As the modders explain on the mod's Stream profile, there are oodles of new weapons for you to pick from, too. If you download the mod you can expect to stumble across an MP34, M1 Garand, BAR, MP44, MG42, G43, M97 Trench Gun, Revolver, MG34, PPSH41, Mosin Nagant, and TT33. All the guns have been given some TLC, too, and now come with new and improved weapon models and sounds. The weapons may feel different this time around, though, as there is a new recoil system and "rebalanced weapon characteristics".


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