IGN have undertaken the mammoth task of compiling the Top 100 First Person Shooters of all time from all of the shooters released in the past 20 or so years. It’s great to see Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory make the list a full decade after its release, deploying in the #84 spot.
Back in the dark age of the FPS, multiplayer was nothing but a bunch of people running in every direction at once with their triggers held down like savages. Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory wasn't the first game to feature objective-focused, class-based competitive play, but its free, open-sourced nature exposed a massive amount of new players to the concept, opening the door for what eventually grow into a much larger trend in multiplayer design.
As a reboot of the franchise that started the genre, Return to Castle Wolfenstein had a lot to live up to. And though it didn't constitute the wheel re-inventing some had hoped it would be, it was still an excellent take on the space between fighting soldiers and fighting hellspawn. In many ways it was just a natural extension of Wolfenstein 3D's controversial final boss, taking historical myths about the Nazis dabbling in the occult and swinging for the fences with them. But it would be the multiplayer that would be remembered most fondly, keeping scads of frag-heads tethered to their gaming rigs until the wee hours for months and years to come.
The great-granddaddy of first-person shooters, Wolfenstein 3D launched the genre we take for granted today. It was inspired by Castle Wolfenstein and its sequel, a pair of relatively crude 2D stealth shooters that pit you against Nazi guards. The metamorphosis into 3D (well, pseudo 3D) was like sorcery in 1992. Gone were the stealth elements; the golden age of run-and-gun shooters erupted with the roar of a chaingun as you blasted through three glorious episodes filled with Nazis and even Adolf Hitler himself as a boss. Id's breakout achievement directly (and indirectly) gave birth to Doom, Rise of the Triad, and every other shooter that followed.
You can check out the rest of the list over at IGN.
Source: ign.com | etpro.de | splashdamage.com
one.more Cup #5 RtCW 3on3
On Sunday the 28th on July there will be another 3on3 cup for the RTCW scene hosted by Team one.soldier and casted by the main man himself, Warwitch over at WarwitchTV. We will keep to the same sort of format as the last RTCW Cup we organised as well which reduced the time time the cup went on for considerably.
Date: 28th July 2013
Start Time: 18:00CET (Earliest)
Minimum Teams: 4 (probably a maximum of 8, first come first serve.)
Tournament Structure: Based on sign ups
Maplist: adlernest, frost, sub, beach, ice and escape
Tournament is free for all to signup, you must have at least 3 players on your roster and a maximum of 4. Players can only be signed up for one team and all info on who has signed up to the cup so far can be found here: LINK
The cups later rounds will also be casted by Warwitch himself over at WarwitchTV as well as the mg42 crew. Please show your love and give a like to his facebook page HERE
#onesoldier
facebook.com/TeamONESOLDIER
Source: etpro.de
eZbash 6v6 CUP #1
RTCW eZbash 6v6 CUP #1 - Hi all, after a pretty good onedaycup in february, i'm back to present you yet another cup, but this time in 6v6 format.
RTCW eZbash 6v6 CUP #1 - Hallo an alle, nach einem ziemlich guten OneDayCup im Februar, bin ich zurück und präsentiere euch noch einen anderen Cup aber dieses Mal im 6on6 Format.
Some Info
• NO real CD-Key required! • osp with pb - relaxed cvar settings • cupservers where you can both connect from 1.0 or 1.4 client • 6v6 format • wtv will be provided (aswell for shoutcasting!) • 8 teams max • first 2 groups with each 4 teams • later on 2 first teams on each group play each other in brackets • mappool: adlernest, assault, base, beach, escape2, ice, village, frostbite • team captains will have to schedule their games • starts at early/mid april
Signup & Teams
SIGN UP HERE
NOTE: all teams will have to play a seeding match (to know for groups & to see if they would actually play in the cup)
signup won't be open for long so sign your team up!
Interested Teams So Far
eZbash, Fixed, No Pressure, Cave, Circle Of Haste, Chile ....
Why RTCW?
Because in my opinion, it's still the best game around :) Watch this1 & this2 video if you don't believe me. And also Sipperi's new video is incoming which will be pure awesomeness!
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ET Players!
You don't need a real CD-Key to play in the RtCWcup and this might be maybe your last chance to play this epic game in competition. Be quick and download rtcw (pack with everything in it) HERE!
Contact & Feedback
Feedback is always useful to me so i can see what the players actually want. Because i'm doing this for you all rtcwfans!
You can contact me at: crossfire (pm me or write here below), #rtcw.wars @ quakenet, www.ezbash.freeforums.org
let's make this a good cup or this will be my last effort for sure.
ps: visit our sponsor www.rtcwmap.de, because without them this cup wouldn't be possible!
Greetings, homie & the eZbash squad
The RtCW4ever team wish everyone involved HF & GL!
RtCW Legacy Cup
The brand new Return to Castle Wolfenstein cup has been announced and this time around bit more organized, more intense, more exciting and more games to be covered! Take a closer look at the announcement for RtCW Legacy Cup!
I am glad to announce this brand new tournament for Return to Castle Wolfenstein! Last cup was a huge success despite lack of my own motivation which actually went pretty well afterall. This time around I have made some changes in the admin department and it will be a huge upgrade for me in order to run the tournament smoothly as possible. I have chosen to switch the platform of the tournament from ClanBase to BinaryBeast ( www.binarybeast.com ) , huge thanks goes to CEO/Owner of BinaryBeast to help me out on some things and we will be featured on the main page. Thanks Brandon S!
So... let's get down to business, enough chitchat! I would like to have your attention here now. The cup will be in 6vs6 format as usually and in ABBA stopwatch mode. The ruleset has been changed a lot and has been made player-friendly as possible, I will try to update them on the run in order to be crystal clear before we enter into battlemode. I won't talk a lot about the rules here since as a player it's your job to be familiar with the rules so there wouldn't be any questions left unanswered! There are some things to think about as well, I have decided to cap the one team roster size to 9. As we saw some of the teams had more than that so this rule could maybe form more teams instead one huge one. The maplist will be finalized by this sunday (07.04.13).
Whats next? Well there a lot to tell. First of all I would like to let you guys know that this tournament will include prizes! So your job right now is to give out your opinions on this post as well what would you like to see for the prizes since we have dilemma. It can be mouses, headsets... you name it, we delivery it!
It's important for us so please take your time and give us the feedback!
Tournament schedule:
31.03.2013 - Signups opened!
28.04.2013 - Signups closed, groups formed!
29.04.2013 - 1st matchweek takes off!
Rest is unfortunately TBD since the signups may vary so as soon as I will know the exact amount of signups and teams playing I will give out the full schedule for the groupstage and playoffs! Please bear with me on this one. Sorry!
As we move closer to the closing of the signups I will make sure everyone will be notified!
About signing up!
This is the tournament website - http://binarybeast.com/xRtCW1303300
Please take your time and read the RULESET! This is important for the players and team captains!
Only the team captain has to signup on the website and rename nick to the team name they will use in the cup!!! After signup, PM me on IRC ( #rtcw.wars @ quakenet.org ) with your full roster and their PB_GUID's!!!
If there is a team signed up with no information given to me, I will remove them and won't consider them as competitors in the cup!
As in the previous cup we saw some legends return. This time it's not different.
Our casting team will be covering the cup AGAIN! All of the WarwitchTV crew wants to thank all the supporters and followers. It was amazing to cast again for all of those guys!
- Warwitch
- Sabo the saboteur
- Nail the geek squad commander
& many more through out the entire cup!
http://www.twitch.tv/warwitchtv/old
WarwitchTV will have giveaways, prizes, surprises and many guests on the show, YOU can be one maybe? Time will tell! You have to tune in every sunday 9PM CET/ 2PM EST
Right now it is unknown but Warwitch is working to get hes studio ready for the cup and with some awesome stuff that you might need to see. More to come in near future!
Information:
Cup website : http://binarybeast.com/xRtCW1303300
Official cup IRC :
Cup Admin : ZeD / co-supervisor MerlinatoR
Official stream : http://www.twitch.tv/warwitchtv/old
Previous cup
I would like to go back in time now. I am sorry for the spectators and the players that I didn't really made any final news about the previous cup winners etc. So ill take my time now.
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Huge round of applause to winner and all of the players who took part of the RtCW Fall Cup 2012. Aswell to all of those spectators and fans out there!!! Personal respect to all of the players and fans who keep this game alive!
I would personally like to thank :
voice, bully, MerlinatoR, homie, Ins0mnia, biggz, Warwitch, DtS, Nail, Sabo, DeeAy, Bridger & many more that I can't remember right now! All the WarwitchTV supporters aswell!
RTCW/ET Movies incl. Fall Cup 3/4
We have two new RtCW and two new ET movies our file repository added.All movies are of good quality and show frag highlights.
Wir haben zwei neue RtCW und zwei neue ET-Movies unserer Download-Datenbank hinzugefügt. Alle Filme haben eine gute Qualität und zeigen Frag-Highlights.
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| RtCW Moments - Week 3+4 | The Last RtCW Movie 2 |
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| ET: Ratte-The Mini Movie | ET: baq - forever low 2 |
Quelle: crossfire.nu
RtCW SP Addon - The Victors Trailer
RtCW Cup 4 erreicht Playoffs
Nach zweieinhalb Wochen RtCW Cup 4 sind bereits alle Spiele abgeschlossen worden. Die meisten Austragungen verliefen ohne Probleme. Durch den grossen Erfolg wurden die Organisatoren motiviert, auch in Zukunft weitere Cups durchzuführen!
Group 1 Rockit indomitus Nulli-Secundus BYE |
Group 2 cave super kawaii kids fixed Damage Inc |
Group 3 KiH Circle of Haste frozenfingers oldskewl |
Group 4 nopressure thundercats Super Fighters iAm |
Die erste Runde der Gewinner-Spiele wird noch diese Woche starten. So sehen sie aus:
Rockit vs. Circle of Haste
cave vs. thundercats
KiH vs. Indomitus
noPressure vs. super kawaii kids
Viel Spass weiterhin beim Verfolgen der Wettkämpfe!
Quelle: RtCW-Cup | GamingPalace
Arkot Castlekeep 1.1
RtCW Singleplayer Map Arkot Castlekeep 1.1 made by Arkot 24 and Vicpas.
Enjoy and thank you.
RtCW Singleplayer Map Arkot Castlekeep 1.1 erstellt von Arkot 24 und Vicpas.
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Fall Cup 2012 - Moments Of The Week #8
RtCW Fall Cup Moments of the week #8 by Crumbs - Featuring: MerlinatoR, Leonneke, voice, Night, sqzz, razz, crumbs and KiH vs raw highlights from the loser bracket semi-final.
Apologies to anyones demos I did not include only had a limited time to make the movie, so was hard to include everything.
RtCW Herbst Cup, Momente der Woche #8 von Crumbs - Mitstreiter: MerlinatoR, Leonneke, voice, Night, sqzz, razz, crumbs und Highlights aus dem Loser Bracket Semi-Finale kih gegen raw.
Entschuldigung an diejenigen, dessen Demos ich nicht eingefügt habe. Ich hatte nur wenig Zeit um den Film zu machen und konnte nicht alles berücksichtigen.
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Industrial Espionage Final - SP map for RtCW
New SP map for RTCW - Industrial Espionage Final made by Wolfman - The year is 1943. Italy has just surrendered, but the rest of the world remains at war. The Office of Secret Actions orders that Agent B.J. Blazkowicz be sent on a spy mission to a German industrial facility.
Until recently, this facility was unknown to Allied forces, therefore you are being sent in to assess its purpose and threat level.
New SP map for RTCW - Industrial Espionage Final erstellt von Wolfman - Es ist das Jahr 1943. Italien hat kapituliert, aber der Rest der Welt bleibt im Krieg. Das Office of Secret Actions beauftragt, dass Agent BJ Blazkowicz in einer Spionagemission, auf eine deutsche Industrieanlage geschickt wird.
Bis vor kurzem war diese Anlage den alliierten Streitkräften unbekannt, deshalb wirst Du dort hin ausgesandt, um Zweck und Bedrohung der Lage zu bewerten.
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Quelle: Thx to Vicpas via Shoutbox | splashdamage/forum