18:48 if you don't kill the 2 officers in the wine cellar they will talk about having to seal the crypt to prevent the zombies from coming out, that's why the ladder is destroyed in the zombie level

Quick frame of reference: This game came out around the same time as Grand Theft Auto III, Max Payne, Baldur's Gate II, and Black and White. (Clive Barker's Undying, as well.) It was released approximately three years before Half-Life II and DOOM 3. There were a lot of things this game did right, especially for the era.

Fun fact: Crouching while firing your weapon pretty much gets rid of all the spread it would have and makes it laser accurate, except the venom gun

"After a thousand years, I have returned! The world will tremble bef- Wait, what the hell is that? OH JESUS CHRIST, IT'S SIX BARRELED AND RAPID-FIRE!"

31:19 "This tank actually provides good cover." That's a HALFTRACK, Civvie. #FreeCivvie

32:42 You know it costs 400,000 Reichsmarks to fire that weapon for 12 seconds.

As for the STEN being used by the elite guard women: SS had to supply their own gear. hence why Waffen-SS had an eclectic mix of stuff. its believable that a witch’s coven of occultists would use captured STENs as the proper fighting divisions of the SS got the first pick after the army.

The castle, the cable car, and the village barroom are all very reminiscent of the sets/scenes from the Clint Eastwood-Richard Burton film Where Eagles Dare. The whole concept of commandos assaulting (or breaking out of) a castle in Wolfenstein gets a lot of its aesthetics from this movie (as well as history)

One, I guess funny, thing worth mentioning is, that in one of the first mission briefings Blaskovitz is advised to take his own life if captured by using the cyanide capsule hidden in his tooth since he is a secret super spy. Well what do you know, there is a hotkey in the game for taking cyanide. It does what it does. Also it will bug me if I dont say it. The entrance to the crypt can be destroyed with anything ( kick, knife doesnt matter), it just has a ton of hp. Same goes for the radar station. But yeah, I also consider the dynamite to be the proper way of doing it.

I really like Tony Jay's voice he played a lot of great characters including the Elder God from the legacy of Kain. Rest in peace you magnificent man!

Who would have thought a 1000 years old evil warlock could succumb to 20th century firepower?

The overheat mechanic with the sten is actually pretty cool considering it’s the suppressed variant (Mk 2S). Irl one of the issues the British had with it was when firing full auto they would heat up VERY rapidly, which is why they often had a canvas sleeve laced up for the user to hold

Fun fact: the Night Vision sniper is a M3 Carbine, an experimental version of the M1, just with a massive scope that has night vision. It also needed a car battery to power in real life.

You know, it broke my heart when I researched it and found out that The Reich had little to no interest in supernatural occult stuff in real life. Adolf waved it all off as overblown superstition. I felt so lied to.

RTCW is still one of the best games of all time. The sound is incredible. The first time you hear someone shooting at you with a Mauser rifle is crazy because it actually has that cracking sound of a gun fired at a long distance. Everything about the sound is perfect in this game.

This was one of the favorite games of my dad. I miss him :(

In case anyone didn't know, in the rocket base. if you wait long enough in the garage (1st room). you can ride the tanks down and skip half the level.

There is such a high level of authenticity and genuine effort that goes into each of these videos. I'm so glad I discovered this channel back in 2018 it's only continued to get better and better and better.

Calling the sten a government power fallout pipe gun is really accurate

One of my favorite little details in this game is a safety notice in the V2 rocket mission by a "Major B. Vorsichtig," with 'vorsichtig' meaning careful or cautious. It's fun imagining that either some very fittingly-named Nazi got assigned to workplace safety, or there's some mascot character whose name is literally "Major Be Careful" invented for the purpose. Anyway, great video on probably my favorite game of the series. There are minor issues here and there, but the core of it - the weapons, enemy reactivity, level design, music - it's all just rock-solid. The game itself is the incentive to keep playing.

Seeing RTCW helps me realize how cool DN2001 could've been in another timeline.

21:44 the Germans captured Suppressed Stens from British commandos. They then used them as their commando weapon, designated MP 751(e).

That Hunter S. Tompson quote just hits different when Civvie says it. Hits me deep down in my soul.

Tony Jay's iconic voice. How I wish he had another 20 years..

As someone with way, way too many plastic Orks, hearing Civvie say 'dakka' made my heart jump.

I had a fantastic thing happen during the end boss fight. I was taking a moment in the tunnel just before his arena and he stomped his way over into the entrance. Surprised I ran out and the rocks fell, blocking the entrance and one shotting Heinrich. Enjoyable game overall, can recommend.

The MG42 of the time had a fire rate between 1,000 and 1,500 rounds, depending on the weight of the bolt used. As they'd wear down, the rate of fire would slowly increase as a result. Ultimately the Venom Gun is a needlessly complicated MG42, accomplishing the same thing but now with a rotary barrel and ammunition chute/backpack. However, it is also entirely badass and thus understandable. I'm sure the MG42 felt like a sci-fi gun when it's shooting at you.

Turns out all it takes to kill a Germanic Death Knight is a LOT of bullets! Score one for modern day firepower.

Man... watching the footage of this game, namely the early levels, was a real treat. Haven't played RTCW since I was in 8th grade... The multiplayer of RTCW was so much fun, the endless airstrikes of Beach, the panzer spam of Depot, the spraying and praying of Town... ahhh, good times. my favorite map though was the download "Tank MP" map. That bridge in the middle, the two side paths, the multi-stage interior leading down to the tank on 60v60... man, the memories of that. Defend The Objective! I'm an Engineer Disarm The Dynamite! Nein

Hell yeah everytime I think civvie has covered most of my gaming youth he pulls out a gem I had almost forgotten about

Never expected Civvie to remind me of SS Doomtrooper, a film I saw years and years ago that had slipped from my memory - until a scene of it here dredged it up. Weird nostalgia wave there. Thanks Civvie.

When I was a kid, the catacombs level scared the absolute hell out of me that I was utterly terrified of even moving to a new room. The music was so creepy and the sound was just magnificently done to add that eerie effect to everything. 10/10, one of the best childhood memories to laugh at now as an adult.

Thought he would never make a video on this, thanks CV

"Holy shit he found some Tommy Gun ammo!" Spent like 8 minutes laughing. Once again, just gold from Civvie.

I like that Civvie is completely aware that the hallucinations telling him to blow up the planet are, in fact, hallucinations. But he's still trying to blow up the world anyway because he just wants to.

Dude that opening was amazing. The amount of nostalgia for all the old movies I watched as a kid I felt was unexpected but welcome.

So, the Germans didn't exactly use the Sten, but the Sten was a simplification of the Lanchester, and the Lanchester was essentially a British MP28, and the MP28 was the updated version of the MP18, because the MP18 was the first submachine gun, and as a result it's magazine had problems. Fun fact: at the very VERY end of the war, the Germans actually did kinda copy the Sten with minor modifications, dubbing it the MP3008 (Gerät Neumünster). It's just a Sten with a vertical magazine. They also created what was dubbed the Gerät Potsdam, which was a carbon copy of the Sten, right down to the manufacturing marks. This weapon was specifically for clandestine operations, making it actually semi-plausible for the elite SS in this game. Or... at least it would be, if it wasn't for the fact that the Gerät Potsdam was developed in September of 1944, while this game starts in March of 1943. This has been your resident gun pedant reporting for duty. I'll see you on the next video.

21:53 "Gun pedant" summoned No, Stens weren't officially used en masse by the germans even though they did capture some Stens and had a habit of using whatever they could get their hands on because they never had enough equipment. This is down to the very simple fact that Stens (the Mk II and III, which were the most common) weren't very pleasant guns to use, the most common variants being as you said basically pipe guns. However, the MP 40 took more time and material to make than most guns (really most SMGs at the time did) so the germans were always looking for something more mass-producible through the war, and actually towards the end had some SMG designs that were very reminiscent (see, rip offs) of the Sten, specifically the MP 3008. This is ironic because the Sten's design lineage was basically ripping off an earlier german SMG, the MP 28. Additional unasked for fun facts; Your Sten is "overheating" because it's a special version with a silencer, probably smuggled in for resistance fighters. The Tommy Gun does slightly more damage to reflect the fact that it's in .45 ACP (insert the eternal argument here) The FG 42 was designed as a requirement for the Fallschirmjager to have a weapon that could be carried with them and serve as both a regular rifle and an LMG. Previously Fallschirmjager jumped only with pistols, with their weapons being dropped separately, and they'd have to go find their weapons on landing. The Rocket plane you fly on is a mash up of 2 last ditch planes; the overall form is that of the Fi 103R (manned V1, so technically a jet) and the front of The Natter, a rocket interceptor with a bunch of air-to-air rockets in the very front (which is why the front looks like in has a bunch of holes- those are rocket tubes). The Germans wanted to replace the luger, but couldn't because they couldn't retool enough factories to make the new Walther P38.*

A Civvie video being in 4K is one of the signs of the apocalypse. The definition is too crisp, my eyes are melting out of my skull

I remember the PS2 version there is a level where you fight in Egypt and shows more backstory to your British partner before he got electrocuted to death in the opening level. Interesting to see the other version level plays out.

I love that many gamers share the same story of being young, playing this game and being hella scared by the crypt level and getting someone else to play it for them

A neat detail is how as you're cutting through the last of the Black Guards and Elite Guards towards the end of the game, they're all cut up and bloodied from their fight with the zombies. This game excelled at environmental storytelling

Still one of the most fun FPS experiences ever. An absolute timeless classic of great video game design.

God I miss Tony Jay's voice acting. He was so good. Rest in peace T-T

24:56 Theres a parachute nearby in the tree. I always assumed the box was supposed to be dropped near you but failed to do so, landing over there and thankfully not alerting the guards. Funnily dropping gear separately is what sunk the Fallshimjager on Crete. Leading to the development of the FG-42

So my take away from this is that in between Heretic and Heretic 2. Corvus while trying to dimension hop home landed in ours, saved it from a big bad then found a fair maiden that had a thing for pointy ears before dipping. That maiden then have a half elf child that would be the first of the legendary bloodline that would become known as Blaskowitz.

10:55 if you hit the alt fire key you can attach suppressor to the Luger (making it quite useful for if/when you have no sten), and if you have the M1911 then BJ dual wields two of them making it damn near as powerful as the Thompson.

I remember watching SS Doomtrooper premier on SciFi channel while crushing a 30 pack of Miller Genuine Draft with my friends. It was probably one of the lowest points in my life 😂

The briefing for the stealth mission explicitly tells you about dropping a sniper rifle for you on a parachute. So it's only a curveball if you aren't paying attention.

This is what I love about this civvie, aside from being the only channel that caters almost exclusively to my 30 year old gamer brain with these succulent old shooters, he frequently awakens ancient memories in my smooth chicken breast of a brain. I got halfway through this video thinking I had never seen this game before, only for some random sound and the HUD to explode it back into my thoughts. Thanks for plucking at my subconscious!

To this day this game's Supersoldat reveal is still one of the most understated and simultaneously sickest FUCKING entrances of a special enemy in gaming history.

Something so nice about those starting cutscenes, those rooms look so nostalgic to me for whatever reason

23:55: Ok, no joke, I was _just_ thinking about Hunter Thompson right before Civvie quoted the Great Wave monologue. As always, he is a man of culture.

32:55 Actually 1200 rpm is the real life fire rate of the MG42, hence its nickname "Hitlers Buzzsaw"

S tier shooter game. Absolute masterpiece.

Funny, I'd just finished talking to someone about RtCw! The Uber-Soldats are probably one of my all time favourite enemies in terms of appearance/theme - They're just cemented in my consciousness. That capstone joke was excellent too!

24:55 they are dropped for you with a parachute, same as the pistols and tommy gun ammo at the start of the level over the river, the one that the 2 guards are having a conversation about, also, if you don't kill the officer at 24:41 going to the right, he will notice said ammo and weapon supply and alert the guards

This was my first FPS from when I was a kid. I've cleared it countless times with many, many mods. All the sound effects and music tracks are hardwired into my mind. Lopers still freak me out to this day. Fucking masterpiece.

I can see why Kingpin has a cult following. It was a very early "open world" type of FPS, which also contained areas and characters that weren't necessarily for shooting or who tried to attack you (you COULD start shooting, but it wasn't required). It's part of the reason why I found it to be so cool, since my only frame if reference before that had been doom, quake and quake 2 where the rule was always: "If it moves: shoot it"

You want to know what my favorite part of a forced stealth section? The moment when the music picks up, and you break the stealth. Those parts are so satisfying, and almost, almost make up for the torture of the previous section.

This was the first game i've ever played in my life. 22 years later i still play it once a year,what a fantastic video game!

6:40 that opening cutscene was so mind blowing when the game came out. The graphics were so stunning i had to show any random person visiting my family 🤤

I always thought the Elite Guards with Stens were inspired by the Female Assassins from Half-Life considering both are wearing black leather outfits, are very agile, and have silenced weaponry.

I'm glad you didn't feel obligated to trash this one. It was really great, and memorable.

Fun fact: right before you get to those elite guards fighting that one single zombie in the penultimate level, if you try to jump down thinking you will get past some enemies, the wall behind that statue gets smashed by 3 zombies acompanied by a badass soundtrack. Game punishes you for thinking that you are smart. Love it!

24:54 getting sniper rifle is the mission objective and it's explained why its there in the briefing I personally loved this level, it was pretty well done imo

That M3 sniper variant of the M1 carbine was a surprise! Not many games have them, through not many of the kits (3000ish) were made

I can’t state enough how much I love Tony jay’s voice. That’s all I wanted to comment.

Let's all appreciate the fact that creators of redneck rampage technically made Enemy Territory happen. That was the best multiplayer FPS ever and you can't change my mind about it.

Man, remember when we had object based positional audio in PC games back in the day until Microsoft killed it only for Dolby to sell it to us decades later as Atmos? What a time to be alive.

A couple of days ago I went through the mission at the Chateau in stealth mode. Seriously. The first rumble was a scripted Panzerfaust grenade into my face at the very end of the level.

Man your content is just so good dude…every single video…pure gold…thanks civvie ❤

19:33 Remember kids: 9mm kills the body, but .45 kills the soul

I'm glad you got to mention Enemy Territory. For a broke kid with a barely-competent family PC, a free FPS was just amazing. It was my first time playing with clans and groups of people I haven't talked to in over a decade, but there's still very good memories there. 24/7 Fuel Dump for life. Also it's weird seeing Tony Jay in a *non-sinister* role.

For a good while I have been enjoying your channel and content and as someone who loved Wolfenstein, this was a real treat.

Civvie S Thompson's wave speech at 23:48 never disappoints.

The first thing I thought of the moment you hit that rocket base was "This feels a lot like Goldeneye" and not a minute later, you say that exact thing. Neat that my brain was trained this much on that game.

I don't even know how to quantify how much I would love a doom-engine version of the Lighthouse🙃

I played the multiplayer of this game “Enemy Territory” EVERYDAY without fail. It was insanely good. WW2 themed, objective mode quake with a class system and super high skill ceiling. SO GOOD. Edit; kudos for that Fear & Loathing quote

Been playing this game forever, doing a pistol only run at this point for fun. So glad Civvie covered one of my favorite games of all time.

Literally my favorite game of all time, I remember playing this online with my Uncle in 2004, love your content Civvie.

Oh hey, that rocket plane you steal was an actual late-war prototype built by the Germans, the Ba 349 Natter, or Grasshopper. It was one of those last-minute kind of things that was almost entirely made out of wood, and was meant to be basically half-disposable. The nose of it held a ton of rockets that were meant to be fired into Allied bomber formations above Germany, and then jettisoned, where a new one could be fitted if the thing managed to make it back to the ground. That's super neat that the devs included an actual prototype, rather than making something up like the later Wolf games did.

I’ve been diving into Civvie videos only in the last few months since watching the FEAR one (which is still hilarious) but this video is amazingly good. Well done.

I've never heard of you before, but this video earned an instant subscription from me! Excellent job!

I remember fighting that super soldier boss, I got him stuck on a corner of that control room somehow and just killed him with a Mauser, only reason why I was able to kill him was cause he couldn't hit me, but I could hit his shoulder. I was so happy that I finally killed him. I can't recall how many times I've died to him. Then once I reached the final boss, I was shocked how easy he was compared to super soldier.

Due to special conditions of security pertaining to the upcoming ceremony, absolutely no traffic is to go in or out of the vicinity of the village of Paderborn, by order of General Von Stauff.... 6:22 - yeah, that hooded guy with the yellow staff reminded me, too, of the Heretic protag back in the day! 9:10 - Tony Jay, RIP. From Rugrats to Mihhty Max to Red Sky Turtles's Lord Dregg... lots of voices.

Everyone of your videos is an absolute gem. ❤️

Nice review of one of my favorite games. Can't wait to play it once more. Keep up the good work!👍

Funnily enough this is the game I go to for showing how far graphics came. (Wondering if that will get mentioned) In under a decade we went from Wolfenstein 3D to this game

My grandfather bought me this game when it first came out… really got me into FPS games

Much love for this epic game. Great video as always Mr 11.

Man, I love when Civvie digs up a game he likes (or finds a new one - the Dusk and Cultic videos are practically glowing with praise).

A day off and a new civvie, that's how you start a day.

Probably the best one in the series. The intro cinematic and soundtrack are core memories.

the kick animation and it's odd visual scaling when done near walls was what made me coin the term "Danny DeVito Kick"

29:12 it took several years but thank you for addressing this, Civvie. I deeply appreciate the thought and length you went to include it.

When I was 8 basically my whole family played this. Yes, including me, despite the fact that you can gib enemies or burn them to death. Our parents would play late at night, when all the chores were done. The catacomb stages were absolutely horrifying to all of us back then. It's probably still my favourite Wolfenstein game, though The New Order isn't far behind.

RTCW was a goddam masterpiece of gameplay, art direction and eerie atmosphere that still hasn't been outdone by the sequels. Truly this was the golden age... Now where the hell is Kingpin Civvie!?

I'm glad I turned on the captions, otherwise I wouldn't have caught that you were playing Bishop's Countdown for that last battle.

The flamethrower are return to castle Wolfenstein is the most beautiful weapon effect ever. Even in multiplayer watching that gout of flame come into a room, bounce off walls like a real jet stream would, and burninate everyone inside from all angles as a result