Wolfenstein 3D on the iPod

I’m not a huge gamer and rarely spend a lot of time immersing myself into any particular genre or title. But there are certain classics that I really enjoyed and I was overjoyed to see a port of Wolfenstein 3D being made available for the iPod Touch.

The game costs USD 4.99 on the App Store and includes the original adventure with all six episodes and almost 60 levels of action. Of all the games I ever played this is one I not only finished more than once, but kept coming back to.

I’m happy to say that the iPod Touch port looks exactly like I remember the PC version. Controlling the action is possible in one of two ways, by either using a configurable button arrangement for turning, walking and shooting, or by employing the motion sensor on the iPod Touch.

The use of the motion sensor takes a bit of getting used to, but works remarkably well after a couple of attempts – I kept straying to the left and running into a wall, but eventually learned to compensate by leaning more to the right…

For fans, John Carmack goes into a bit more detail regarding the coding and port of the iPhone version of the game, as well as offering the source code as a free download. You can get to that here. That’s certain to be of interest to developers of games on any platform, I would imagine. Best of all, he hints at a release of Doom for the iPhone in the not-too distant future. Now there’s another of my favourites I’d download the moment it is released!

Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone is tons of fun and well worth the 5 bucks. I’m very impressed with the in-game soundtrack and have found myself humming the Wolf-tune every now and then…