An unofficial 30th anniversary release, featuring 3 brand new episodes, new weapons and many other quality of life changes like an automap and modern controls. Available for classic DOS and SDL for modern OS systems. Updating to Definitive Edition, featuring yet again 3 brand new episodes and FULL Spear of Destiny support with new levels (35 Spear levels in total), improved hitscan, enemy infighting, multi flats and shading in all 155 levels.
A most impressive achievement! The proper depiction of the levels with floors, ceilings and a coherent art-direction in mind, - combined with a normal strafing - truly ignites the game with life. It no longer plays like a crudely archaic frankenstein, but like a competently made retro-fps. The extras with animations and weapons are an always and very welcome icing on the cake. Internal detailing and decoration - were ever a deal-maker or a deal-breaker for me, and i can only applaud the way this mod does it. Bravo!!!
However, there are a few things that stand in a way of a perfect score and mar the experience, considering the lengths the mod goes to implementing everything else that it does. In a map-intensive FPS like Wolf3d - it would be great to be able to assign the map button to whatever i want, and the same goes for the ability to zoom the map in/out - something that is currently absent. Mouse behavior is a little strange in itself...don't know if that was done for some retro-effect, but does not help the game's QOL. Finally, being able to assign mouse keys to more than just "fire" and "open" - would seem natural, but it is absent as well. Ditto regarding assignable weapon keys, or at least the minimum: weapon up/down buttons. When these features are implemented - i would gladly rate this mod 10/10 - or even 15/10, if that was possible.
This, is THE BEST upgrade Wolf3d ever had. With or without ID. Full stop.
...why Dosbox only?!
A very decent mod. The new levels are fun and fairly balanced around the new weapons. I always found use of the new weapons, they never felt unnecessary. The boss fights were quite alright, especially the last one. I only dared to try the new difficulty setting on the first episode and oh man, I wasn't brave enough to try it on episode 2 after finishing 1. Plenty of replay value for the og episodes too (if you do own the og game of course). Can't really think of anything to nitpick about. It's a 10/10 for me.