Electronic Arts has
released the Wolfenstein RPG for the iPhone and iPod touch -- the game is
available on the App Store for $4.99 right now. It's based in the world of Wolfenstein, but it's not your normal first-person shooter. Instead, it's actually a mobile turn-based RPG, adapted from an older cellphone platform for Apple's handheld. Considering its origins, the game looks pretty good, and it's got a silly sense of humor as well -- you can
read books to gain abilities and power-ups, or play a chicken-kicking minigame. Reviews are pretty excellent on iTunes, so if you're looking for something a little different to play as a role-playing game, it might be worth a look.
Even more anticipated than this game is
the Doom RPG, with the same type of gameplay, but set in id software's
Doom universe (notable, among other things, for its BFG weapon). Odds are that if this game does well, the
Doom RPG (and maybe even
Orcs and Elves, originally
seen on the DS) probably won't be far behind.

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stephen said 12:58PM on 8-12-2009
The gameplay videos on youtube look pretty clunky. Interesting that its a turn based game and not an FPS, I think a lot of people won't understand this until they buy and go "oh, this isn't what I thought it was."
I would wait for a price drop frankly, its a several years old game that was just ported to the iphone for quick $$.
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Janichsan said 3:26PM on 8-12-2009
Don't take that as an insult, but you must have been meant when TouchArcade wrote that "[w]hile the game had been ready since at least May it was held due to concerns about confusion with Wolfenstein 3D Classic."
Wolfenstein the FPS (aka Wolfenstein 3D Classic) is available for the iPhone for quite a while now. And Wolfenstein the RPG (this game) is actually less than one year old in its original incarnation for other mobile phones.
stephen said 3:32PM on 8-12-2009
Yes, you are right. I understand.
I was simply commenting that it was an odd choice for a company that is know for its awesome FPS that they release a RPG game?
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Janichsan said 4:16PM on 8-12-2009
It's not their first: as mentioned in the article, they have previously released the Doom RPG for various mobile phones and Orcs & Elves for mobiles and the Nintendo DS. Basically all id games for mobile platforms have been RPGs – and rather successful ones, as far as I know.
Kelmon said 6:50AM on 8-13-2009
Hmm, it's be nice to see some of the old AD&D games like Eye of the Beholder on the iPhone as well.
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