History YMMV / ReturnToCastleWolfenstein

* CriticalResearchFailure: The game's manual claims that ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein'' was released in 1983 and was about infiltrating Nazi headquarters and assassinating Adolf Hitler with a bomb. ''Castle Wolfenstein'' was released in 1981, and the plot described was actually that of '''''Beyond''''' ''Castle Wolfenstein'' from 1984.

* PolishedPort: The [=PlayStation=] 2 and Xbox ports of RTCW add a new prologue level set in Egypt that shows what B.J. and Agent One were doing before their arrival at Castle Wolfenstein, introduce new enemies and weapons, includes a Co-Op mode (with Agent One as the second player), and B.J. is fully-voiced [[SuddenlyVoiced for the first time in the series]].

* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Common in any game where the story is mostly told in the way of optional logs that you can pick up and read.

* ScrappyWeapon: Grenades. Nazis easily run away from them. Even worse, they can kick them back at B.J. It takes B.J. a long time to charge them and throw them at long distances, and they easily bounce in wrong direction.

* ScrappyWeapon: Grenades. Nazis easily run away from them. Even worse, they can kick them back at B.J.

** If you already have trouble fighting the Proto-Soldier, than you'll be in hell once you fight the Ubersoldat. The Tesla Gun prevents you from ever moving away to safety, draining your health away unless you're lucky enough to find a barrier, forcing you to take potshots. Even worse is that enemies will arrive taking potshots at you with their Lugers as you'll be desperate to run for armor and health. The cutscene [[LampshadeHanging even mentions that BJ is beaten pretty badly]] after the battle.
** Heinrich I. Not only does he take a ''lot'' of abuse, cause a lot of damage with his sword (almost every hit is guaranteed to be a OneHitKill), and have [[NightOfTheLivingMooks an army of zombie warriors]] protecting him, but he [[ThatOneAttack summons ghosts to smother the player]] should the player stay too far. Touching these ghosts will [[InterfaceScrew darken the screen]], slow you down, and take ''massive'' chunks out of your health '''all at the same time'''. Also, you aren't even given any Panzerfausts during this battle, so you better have saved them up from earlier.
* ThatOneLevel: Both infiltration levels, but the winner is the first one. ''It takes place in daylight.''

** Heinrich I. Not only does he take a ''lot'' of abuse, cause a lot of damage with his sword (almost every hit is guaranteed to be a OneHitKill), and have [[NightOfTheLivingMooks an army of zombie warriors]] protecting him, but he [[ThatOneAttack summons ghosts to smother the player]]. Touching these ghosts will [[InterfaceScrew darken the screen]], slow you down, and take ''massive'' chunks out of your health '''all at the same time'''. Also, you aren't even given any Panzerfausts during this battle, so you better have saved them up from earlier.

** Heinrich I. Not only does he take a ''lot'' of abuse, cause a lot of damage with his sword, and have [[NightOfTheLivingMooks an army of zombie warriors]] protecting him, but he [[ThatOneAttack summons ghosts to smother the player]]. Touching these ghosts will [[InterfaceScrew darken the screen]], slow you down, and take ''massive'' chunks out of your health '''all at the same time'''. Also, you aren't even given any Panzerfausts during this battle, so you better have saved them up from earlier.

** Heinrich I. Not only does he take a ''lot'' of abuse, and have [[NightOfTheLivingMooks an army of zombie warriors]] protecting him, but he [[ThatOneAttack summons ghosts to smother the player]], [[InterfaceScrew darkening the screen]], slowing you down, and taking massive chunks out of your health ''all at the same time''.

* ThatOneBoss: If you already have trouble fighting the Proto-Soldier, than you'll be in hell once you fight the Ubersoldat. The Tesla Gun prevents you from ever moving away to safety, draining your health away unless you're lucky enough to find a barrier, forcing you to take potshots. Even worse is that enemies will arrive taking potshots at you with their lugers as you'll be desperate to run for armor and health. The cutscene [[LampshadeHanging even mentions that BJ is beaten pretty badly]] after the battle.

* ScrappyLevel: Both infiltration levels, but the winner is the first one. ''It takes place in daylight.''
* ThatOneBoss: If you already have trouble fighting the Proto-Soldier, than you'll be in hell once you fight the Ubersoldat. The Tesla Gun prevents you from ever moving away to safety, draining your health away unless you're lucky enough to find a barrier, forcing you to take potshots. Even worse is that enemies will arrive taking potshots at you with their lugers as you'll be desperate to run for armor and health. The cutscene [[LampshadeHanging even mentions that BJ is beaten pretty badly]] after the battle.

* GameBreaker: The Sten. It's silenced, fully automatic, quite accurate, does more damage per bullet than the Thompson and the MP40, which uses the ''same type of 9mm ammo'', said 9mm ammo is literally the most plentiful in the game, and some versions of the game give it a rate of fire faster than the [=MP40=]'s. As long as it's fired in bursts to avoid the overheating drawback, it's one of the deadliest weapons against any kind of enemy save for the Lopers and the super soldiers.

* GameBreaker: The Sten. It's silenced, fully automatic, quite accurate, does more damage per bullet than the Thompson, ammo is literally the most plentiful in the game, and some versions of the game give it a rate of fire faster than the [=MP40=]'s. As long as it's fired in bursts to avoid the overheating drawback, it's one of the deadliest weapons against any kind of enemy save for the Lopers and the super soldiers.

* GameBreaker: The Sten. It's silenced, fully automatic, quite accurate, does more damage per bullet than the Thompson, ammo is literally the most plentiful in the game, and some versions of the game give it a rate of fire faster than the MP40's. As long as it's fired in bursts to avoid the overheating drawback, it's one of the deadliest weapons against any kind of enemy save for the Lopers and the super soldiers.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Sure they are nazis, but whenever you come across them they seem to just be having normal conversations. Heck, they are also fighting trying to fight off the army of the undead in more than one of the levels. Always seemed to me that the nazis are some good guys that were on the wrong side.

* PlaytheGameSkiptheStory: Common in any game where the story is mostly told in the way of optional logs that you can pick up and read.

* ThatOneBoss: If you already have trouble fighting the Proto-Soldier, than you'll be in hell once you fight the Ubersoldat. The Tesla Gun prevents you from ever moving away to safety, draining your health away unless you're lucky enough to find a barrier, forcing you to take potshots. Even worse is that enemies will arrive taking potshots as you with their lugers as you'll be desperate to run for armor and health. The cutscene [[LampshadeHanging even mentions that BJ is beaten pretty badly]] after the battle.

* ThatOneBoss: If you already have trouble fighting the Proto-Soldier, than you'll be in hell once you fight the Ubersoldat. The Tesla Gun prevents you from ever moving away to safety, draining your health away unless you're lucky enough to find a barrier, forcing you to take potshots. Even worse is that enemies will arrive taking potshots as you with their lugers as you'll be desperate to run for armor and health. The cutscene [[LampeshadeHanging even mentions that BJ is beaten pretty badly]] after the battle.

* ScrappyLevel: Both infiltration levels, but the winner is the first one. ''At daylight.''

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler:Heinrich I]].

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** [[spoiler:Heinrich I]].
** Himmler was an asshole, but this game makes it worse.

** Himmler was an asshole, but this game [[ItGotWorse makes it worse]].

** Actually the second infiltration level is a step down in difficulty from the first one.