Recycled Gaming

First Person Shooters. You gotta love them, but have you ever wondered where it all started? Wolfenstein 3D.

This great PC game was the biggest thing to hit the video game market in the early 1990s.

Most older, retro and classic gamers will remember back to the days when Wolfenstein 3D was king.

The only question that remains is whether an old computer game makes a good Gameboy Advanced game?

I’m hear to tell you that Wolfenstein 3D for the GBA is awesome and totally rad. How’s that for a classic reaction?

Listening to the sounds of Wolfenstein 3D you might think you were back playing on your old 486 computer with your shareware version.

The sound is an exact recreation from the original. From the bark of the German Shepards to the “Halt Stop!” of the guards every detail of sound is recreated perfectly.

As for how the game plays, it’s exactly like the original. You’ll go around killing various types of Nazis while collecting ammo, treasure, and keys to make it to the next floor and do it again.

No matter how great the port is of the game, no matter how well they stick to the original, there is one question that will have to be answered for this to work.

That question of course is “How are the game controls?” (more…)