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.
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).