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The player's health is represented by a percentage starting at 100, which is diminished when they are shot or attacked by enemies. While the levels are presented in a 3D perspective, the enemies and objects are instead 2D sprites presented from several set viewing angles, a technique sometimes referred to as 2.5D graphics. The player can find weapons and ammunition placed in the levels or can collect them from dead enemies weapons include a knife, a pistol, a submachine gun, and a rapid-fire chain gun. While traversing the levels, the player must fight Nazi guards and soldiers, dogs, and other enemies while managing supplies of ammunition and health. Levels-ten in the original episodes-are grouped together into named episodes, with the final level focusing on a boss fight with a particularly difficult enemy.

To finish a level, the player must traverse through the area to reach an elevator. Each level is themed after Nazi bunkers and buildings. The game is broken up into levels, each of which is a flat plane divided into areas and rooms by a grid-based pattern of walls and doors, all of equal height. Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter presented with rudimentary 3D graphics. In-game screenshot of the DOS version, showing the player character firing a submachine gun at guards

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Id Software never returned to the series, but did license the engine to numerous other titles before releasing the source code for free in 1995, and multiple other games in the Wolfenstein series have been developed by other companies since 2001. FormGen developed an additional two episodes for the game, while Apogee released a pack of over 800 fan-created levels. It has been termed the 'grandfather of 3D shooters', and is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre and establishing the standard of fast-paced action and technical prowess for many subsequent games in the genre, as well as showcasing the viability of the shareware publishing model at the time. Wolfenstein 3D was a critical and commercial success and widely considered to be one of the greatest video games ever made, garnering numerous awards and selling over 250,000 copies by the end of 1995. An additional episode, Spear of Destiny, was released as a stand-alone retail title through FormGen. The game was released through Apogee in two sets of three episodes under the shareware model, in which the first episode is released for free to drive interest in paying for the rest. Wolfenstein 3D features artwork by Adrian Carmack and sound effects and music by Bobby Prince. He and designer Tom Hall designed the game, built on Carmack's engine, to be fast and violent, unlike other computer games on the market at the time. After a design session prompted the company to shift from the family-friendly Keen to a more violent theme, programmer John Romero suggested remaking the 1981 stealth shooter Castle Wolfenstein as a fast-paced action game. In mid-1991, programmer John Carmack experimented with making a fast 3D game engine by restricting the gameplay and viewpoint to a single plane, producing Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3-D as prototypes. Wolfenstein 3D was the second major independent release by id Software, after the Commander Keen series of episodes. The player traverses each of the game's levels to find an elevator to the next level or kill a final boss, fighting Nazi soldiers, dogs, and other enemies with knives and a variety of guns. In Wolfenstein 3D, the player assumes the role of Allied spy William 'B.J.' Blazkowicz during World War II as he escapes from the Nazi German prison Castle Wolfenstein and carries out a series of crucial missions against the Nazis. Originally released on May 5, 1992, for DOS, it was inspired by the 1981 Muse Software video game Castle Wolfenstein, and is the third installment in the Wolfenstein series. Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.