Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Cancelled

rtcw surpasses bf42 in many ways. first, it´s clear and well balanced physik until 1.4.
second it´s similiaritys to fast shooters like q3 and ut in terms of agility and gameplay. i hate games where someone sitting under a tree gets the upper hand in sniping my while playing totally and utter crap when faced in a close quarter fight. maybe i grew old and am fixed to games like doom , q1 and so on but i´ll always give fast paced action the lead compared to crouching and sneaking.
while being faced paced and playable ( the rubbish movement left aside ) bf fails in being a balanced shooter. by making the planes even stronger since patch 1.3 it feels like ea rather wants to attract bomb-dropping noobs than making quality gameplay.
in my opinion infantry should be rewarded for killing opponents in such an demanding way of playing . but nooooo you´ll get pissed off by some flying kiddie who cant manage to turn 180° but carpets the whole map with bombs. balance ? i dont think so....
i really hope ea will get the hang on this and realize that bf only will survive with the attention of hardcore gamers devoting their time and effort, and not by the quick fun of some muenchhausens and richthofens.

one less fps about ww2.

Why are people thinking this is a bad thing? Props to activision for cutting a title that they didn't think would be good enough. It's a competitive market, you don't want to kill your franchises with substandard content.

Sad news since I was expecting a better RTCW SP experience with this one...

How about releasing everything just THE WAY IT IS?

"The multiplayer part will still come out though, it will be released as a free downloadable expansion for Return to Castle Wolfenstein."

Good news that. Anyone got an idea when this is gonna happen ??

i dont understand this. how could the SP be THAT bad? they seem to have a good product in the first one, was the sequel being done by someone else, or did they just forget how to make single player games all of the sudden?

Everyone who is an RTCW fan should thank activision for making the right call then. ere this EA that game woudl have been shoved out the door as is. cough *007 Nightfire* cough........

Yeah, a Korean War game would be much better than a Vietnam game, instead of fighting asian enemies, you'd be fighting, uh, asian... enemies. NM

This is great news!

weak!

well, this is a good decision. RTCW's SP was horridly awful and boring anyways, its MP tho was quite a bit better(but not as fun as bf1942 imo)

I'll take the free download!

GG Splash Damage.

Get back to making Q3F Beta1I.

i think the reason rtcw mp was as unfun as it was is that the weapons didn't seem to do much damage...that combined with random bullet hit spread killed it for me. i had tons of fun playing the test, i played it to death, but the full game itself was nowhere near as fun as that.

i guess they probably don't care, since they got my $50. oh well...back to BF1942.

It is bad news, but at least they realized they just can't compete with BF1942, so they might as well make something out of it.

Well I was kinda waiting for this but no big deal.

*uninstalls RtCW*

Interesting turn of events..

kind of a shame, but I imagine they wieghed the results of trying to compete with bf1942 and its recent addon. Wise decision Activision.

well, thats cool that its going to be a free download.
I might actually play RTCW again - I did enjoy it until BF1942...

Hmm, the graveyard of strategically complex multiplayer games attempting to make the transition into single player grows larger.
It's a shame it seems no one can nail down something that works without resorting to massively constraining the emergent properties of the multiplayer games they spawn from.
Hope publishers keep supporting ambition either way, I was looking forward to this one and others more than any plain script-o-story game on the horizon.

Guess we will have to wait for Wolf III : Retun to Revenge Castle Wolfenstein Joe Millionare !!!!!

MAARTEN is there a link to exactly what was sent?

Wolf didnt deserve an expansion pack.

This has been interesting.

D'oh!! The one game I was really looking forward to play it, sigh...

I just hope they make the portable m60 worthwhile...i hated seeing those guns in the bunkers on beach just standing their never being used. They should make it 1 shot 1 kill with decent accuracy As far as bf1942 and wolf is concerned....wolf/cs/q3 will always get more respect in society because it requires alot more skill to play..and skill/coordination are rewarded more in sports, than say intelligence. Now bf1942 is more of a mind game instead of a shooter. So if your into that more power to you. I havent played bf1942 with the new patch but at qcon i played it on lan and it lagged even there..it was like i was shooting at ghosts. I can remember shooting at ghosts back in 1993 descent netcode. and i dont really want to go back to that.
Dred-P-

I'm sorry, all I read in that whole news post was "Multiplayer...add-on...free"

In other news, it appears that hell ACTUALLY has frozen over.

cool, free stuff.

I really enjoyed RTCW when it was first released, especially the MP. It was the first of the crop of WWII shooters and the MP really required team-play, which to me was new at the time. Unfortunately MOHAA came out and trumped its SP, then BF1942 came out and trumped its MP. It was the King, however, before these games. I salute you, Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

/runs off and plays Road to Rome

Were they planning a single player campaign with a bot team? If so, my guess is that they were overambitious for the bot ai.
Sidekicks just don't work well in fps' imho.

RTCW was good in the test release but they ghey'ed it up to appease the whiners for the release. But BF42 far surpasses it and from the sound of it your bent that people can do other things instead of hold a mouse button down and fire a clip ie infantry.

Wow, this was unexpected.

Think they'll release what ever single player maps they (half) finnished for up to pour over?

*** OMG BF42 > RTCW !!! ***

There. Everyone happy? No one needs to post shit along those lines anymore? Good!

When RTCW came out, I felt the same way about it as I do about Unreal 2 now.

Average.

But a free MP addon is great news either way.

The activision link is broken, just FYI.

I think it'd be REALLY cool if someone made a WAR type mod, and integrated what the Natural Selection mod team did.

One player commands, vs the other players commander. Everyone else plays grunts, commander captures res nozzles (you could call em supply depots), and can build structures, like ammo depots, vehicle factories, medical facilities etc. Then he could upgrade stuff and buy stuff for his troops as they duke it out. Put down machine gun emplacements (that are controlled by an AI bot that has decent skill), call in air strikes (balance this so the enemy com can't rape an entire enemy team working together, but maybe kill 1 or 2 of them).

Think of the possibilities. I could imagine a mod like this happening for BF1942

what a sad state PC games have fallen into... wo is me and my dust collecting rig that has not seen me in what seams like years now..... ohwell

i didn't even know they were working on an expansion