The second easiest setting (“Please don’t hurt me”) is for people who have some experience playing games. Supposedly, the easiest difficulty (“Daddy, can I play?”) is for young and non-gamers. One thing to note about this game is the difficulty settings. If you shoot a guard in the back, you can easily take down that guard in 2 shots (sometimes even 1). If one guard sees you, the guard is able to alert other guards in the area. In fact, it gave this game a sense of realism that just didn’t exist in the SNES version. In the DOS version, the ability to sneak up behind a guard was actually realistically possible. Even if the enemy is facing the other direction, 99% of the time, the enemy will see you and react accordingly. In the SNES version, it was pretty much impossible to sneak up on an enemy. While those are deficits this version has over the SNES version, there are definitely strengths the DOS version has over SNES. 5 bullets almost seems to be a minimum to make sure that a particular enemy is dead (sometimes, you can get away with 4, but if you aren’t super experienced with the aiming system of this game, chances are, the 5th shot will ensure that any miss is accounted for). Most ammo pickups are 5 bullets each and guards only drop one clip on death. I found the ammo cap a bit low for my taste because it is way too easy to run out of ammo. So, preservation of ammo is even more crucial in this game than the SNES counterpart. To add to this, the game caps out at 99 bullets. With the exception, of course, to the knife, all of your weapons share the exact same ammo supply. In the DOS version, you have 4 weapons: the knife, the pistol, the sub-machine gun, and the chaingun. In the SNES version, you could get rocket launchers and another weapon that uses entirely different ammo supplies. Some maps had distinctive enough features that allowed me to navigate without the help of a map, but other floors almost made having a map next to me a necessity (episode 6, level 7 would be a good example of this).Īnother difference I found between this game and the SNES version is the weapon system. This meant that it was harder to figure out where you were on some levels and made me refer to online sources for maps on the occasional level. If this was available in the DOS version, I didn’t find it. This really helped with navigation, finding secrets, and simply not getting lost in the labyrinths found on the many floors of this game. The map would be drawn in as you explored. In the SNES version, it was possible to view a map of the level as you explored it. Having said that, there are other notable differences between the SNES and original version. The differences so far as censorship is concerned is quite minor in my opinion. If you are curious to see how the game fared in being ported to the SNES, I don’t think there is any harm in trying the SNES version.
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I will say this, though: if you want the full authentic Wolfenstein experience as originally intended, then I would say play the DOS version instead. The gameplay is intact and you still get a good Wolfenstein 3D experience with the SNES version. I think that this is only an issue from a purist perspective in that you don’t get 100% of the Wolfenstein experience from the SNES version.
There were still the references of using a zombie army (as well as the references to evil scientists and generals heading up the operation). The original version still had the chemical warfare references. Having now played the original, I think I can say that the censorship, while present in the SNES version, was more of a superficial thing.
Swastika’s were also removed as well as a vast majority of all German references from both the textures and the storyline. Things like the famed German mustaches were removed. One of the most talked about elements of the SNES version was the apparent censorship that went on in this game. Since we’ve already pretty much offered a detailed review previously, we’ll focus on the specific differences between this version and the SNES version. One such port was the SNES version in 1994 which we previously reviewed. This game was released in 1992 and would spark countless ports after. In this review, we check out what a number of people consider to be a classic first person shooter game, Wolfenstein 3D.
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