Wolfenstein
The "Wolfenstein" series of video games started with the 1981 stealth-adventure video game "Castle Wolfenstein". It was developed by American programmer Silas Warner, a pioneer in the early eras of video gaming, especially the stealth genre. It was published by his (then) company M.U.S.E. Inc. (Muse Software). The player controls an unnamed American prisoner of war as he steals war files containing information about secret German war plans while avoiding or sometimes killing guards, and tries to escape the fortified Nazi stronghold Castle Wolfenstein, set during World War II. The game is often credited as one of the first video games of the stealth genre, since it focuses more on avoiding or disarming enemies, and killing them is considered a last resort.
List of Raven Software games
Raven spent the next decade working on a few original titles such as "Soldier of Fortune", as well as licensed games, including the "Star Wars" games "" (2002) and "" (2003) and the "X-Men" titles "X-Men Legends" (2004) and "" (2006). By 2009, the company had three development teams, and released the licensed title "Wolfenstein" (2009) while working on their first original game since 2002, "Singularity" (2010). Both "Wolfenstein" and "Singularity" sold poorly, however, and Raven laid off employees after each title, consolidating into a single development team by October 2010, shortly after "Singularity"s release. Following the layoffs, Raven focused exclusively as an assistant developer for the "Call of Duty" series, which has the position of lead developer rotate between Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer Games. Raven was the primary developer on two titles since then: the China-exclusive "Call of Duty Online" (2015), and "" (2016), a remake of the 2007 "" packaged with "". Raven Software has worked on 32 titles since its founding, 10 of them "Call of Duty" titles, including their latest game "" (2017).