Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh. The game serves as both a remake and a reboot to the "Wolfenstein" series. It was developed by Gray Matter Interactive and Nerve Software developed its multiplayer mode. id Software, the creators of "Wolfenstein 3D", oversaw the development and were credited as executive producers. The multiplayer side eventually became the most popular part of the game, and was influential in the genre. Splash Damage created some of the maps for the Game of the Year edition. A sequel, titled "Wolfenstein", was released on August 18, 2009.
Arrow keys
The style was popularized in competitive play in "Quake" and subsequently "QuakeWorld", notably by professional gamer Dennis Fong, where the advantages of WASD and mouselook were recognised over a purely keyboard-based control system. In the same year that "Castle Wolfenstein" was released, 1981, the game "Wizardry" used the AWD keys for movement in a 3D dungeon. Both the programmers of "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Wizardry" were users of the earlier PLATO system where the game "Moria" used the AWD keys.