YMMV / Wolfenstein (2009)

• Anticlimax Boss:
  • If you time your shots right and have the right weapon, you can blow away the first Despoiled that serves as a boss in under ten seconds. The later confrontations with Despoiled are... harder.
  • By way of being puzzle bosses, this also applies to General Zetta and the Geist Queen.
• Catharsis Factor: Just try not to cackle maniacally while killing Nazis with the Particle Cannon, the Tesla Gun, or the Liechenfaust. You will fail.
• Fan Nickname: "The Green/Light Blue Game". The player will spend most of his time in Veil mode.
• Genius Bonus: Fictitious weapons appear to be based on real-life guns. Both the Particle Cannon and Leichenfaust have the stock and pistol grip of the MG42, but a particular standout is the Tesla Gun, which uses the grips and receiver of the relatively obscure Polish Błyskawica submachine gun from WWII. Its name is Polish for... 'Lightning'. Oh, and there's also the relationship with B.J.'s surname.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The fact that a group opposing the Nazis shares a name with a Greek Neo-Nazi political party that would gain a disturbing amount of power a few years after the game's release. Especially since the ingame group's leader is a traitor working with the Nazis.
  • One piece of intel the player finds notes that the most successful attempt to create a Veil Assassin used a captured and Brainwashed resistance fighter as the test subject... and suggests that all future Veil Assassins (including, presumably, the ones you have to fight) be created in this way. Along came Wolfenstein: The New Order and Deathshead's cyborgs (especially the one which has the brain of either Wyatt or Fergus) replacing the Veil Assassins...
  • This game has Deathshead tauntingly warn Blazkowicz that he "won't live to see the swastika flying proudly over Washington D.C." Come the events of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and while Deathshead doesn't live to see such a sight, poor Blazko does.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Peter Jessop, who voiced B.J. Blazkowicz in this game, would go on to voice another soldier that fought enemies with access to laser weapons, robots, bio-engineered creations, and Powered Armor, while using the latter himself. Not to mention as well he'd already voiced another character in another game which featured all of those and more. Then a couple years after that game was released, B.J. himself (though no longer voiced by Jessop) would start wearing powered armor and be given an artificially-created human body in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
• Sequel Difficulty Drop: Wolfenstein is easier than RTCW or Wolf3D, what with modern FPS mechanics such as Regenerating Health, and the game's own gimmick, the veil powers. Enemies also suffer from the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy and have noticeably less health than in previous games, with the basic soldiers dying after only 2 or 3 bullets even from your standard MP40 on the highest difficulty, and even the Elite Mooks being killable with only several bullets. The Harder Than Hard difficulty is only marginally harder than the Normal difficult in most other FPS games.
• Spiritual Adaptation: This game is almost a remake of Strife. Both games are about a lone soldier (Strifeguy/B.J. Blazkowicz) that sides with an underground resistance movement (The Front/Kreisau Circle) to fight an oppressive faction (The Order/Nazis) that's turning people into cybernetic super-soldiers, the main setting is a castle town (Tarnhil/Isenstadt) that serves as the Hub Level from which you access other areas that are also part of the same town, including the castle itself where the villains are headquartered. And both games also have RPG elements in the form of skill and item upgrades that you can purchase or acquire throughout the game.
• Spiritual Successor: Perhaps less a successor to RTCW than a reskin of the basic design for Hexen 1 and 2's gameplay style. Also the closest we will get to a fifth Raven/id Software-made Heretic or Hexen game until that series' rights issues are resolved.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Some of the music from the game sounds very similar to "The Ark's Theme" from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A common complaint on release week. The most common gripes include the lack of a Chaingun, the use of Regenerating Health in single-player and even in multiplayer mode, and how the game's multiplayer was simplified from the much more famous RTCW and its multiplayer spin-off, Enemy Territory.

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