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2003 · Splash Damage · First-person shooter · Shooter

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a multiplayer spin-off to Return to Castle Wolfenstein. In this game, two teams battle each other through a series of three missions that make up a single campaign. There are two campaigns: North Africa and Northern Europe. Within a mission there are objectives that must be completed by each team.

Released: 29 May 2003
Platforms: Linux Windows macOS
Genres: First-person shooter Shooter World War II
Developers: Splash Damage
Publishers: —
Series: Wolfenstein
Modes: Multiplayer
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Historical Warfare
Engine: id Tech 3
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB M ACB MA 15+PEGI 16 GRAC 15+
Languages: English
Time to beat: 10hmain story11hcompletionist
Composers: Bill Brown

About

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free and open-source multiplayer first-person shooter video game within the Wolfenstein series. It was originally planned to be released as a commercial expansion pack to Return to Castle Wolfenstein and later as a standalone game. However, due to problems with the single-player aspect, the multiplayer portion was released on 29 May 2003 as a freeware standalone game. In January 2004, the source code for the game logic (not the game engine) was released to the benefit of its modding community.

The game uses a modified Return to Castle Wolfenstein engine, itself being a heavily modified id Tech 3 engine, which has been open source since 2005. As of the first day of the August 2010 QuakeCon, the entire source code was released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. The media assets remain proprietary.

›Story

There is no real story in this game. However, there are some background information to the various missions and campaigns, and locations. The setting is World War II and both sides (Allies and Axis) are in the middle of the conflict. In game, they are fighting for various territories using different unit types.

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Gameplay

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is an online multiplayer game, wherein the players interact with each other over a network, in two teams (Allies and Axis) to defend or destroy mission objectives. The game is playable over the Internet or a local area network. In public games, PunkBuster used to protect the game, however its developer, EvenBalance, discontinued support for the game in October 2011.

There are six officially released maps that are partially based on real locations or events (North African Campaign: Gold Rush, Siwa Oasis, and Atlantic Seawall Battery; Europe Campaign: Rail Gun, Würzburg Radar, and Fuel Dump), as well as hundreds of custom maps made by the gaming community. On most maps, the offense needs to complete a certain set of objectives within a limited amount of time. The defense needs to keep the offense from completing objectives until time runs out. Some objectives may be optional, and some objectives can be carried out by either team.