You guys probably don't realize this... but the original Castle Wolfenstein actually came out in like 1984... by a company called Muse Software. I remember playing it on my Commodore 64 with I was a kid. It was a top-down maze-type game that was super complicated. The plot was the same.. you're an allied soldier in a nazi prison and you have to escape. There were regular soldiers and SS soldier who had bullet proof vests who were real assholes. The really cool thing about the game is that it's one of the first to have speech sythesis.. albeit in German. Nothing made you jump like an SS guy barging onto the screen, announcing "SHUSTAPO!"... and you can hear the enemy soldier's footfalls.. it was really an intense game... much more cerebral than the run-n-gun of Wolfenstein 3d.

The only weapon you got was your pistol.. although you could steal enemy uniforms to try to sneak past the guards with. If they got too close though.. forget it. There were footlockers that you had to pick the lock on, some containing valuable items like grenades or ammo or the vaunted "war plans"... while others had useless stuff like food, or sometimes nothing at all. You had 1 health point... get shot, it's over. And there wasn't a lot of shooting anyway.. you could only carry 10 rounds at a time, and when you fired your gun, you attracted attention from other guards. Fire too much, and the SS comes after you. It was more about the sneaking and escaping than about the body count.

(sigh) I miss the old games. Give me back my Commodore 64!