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Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Powered with a highly optimized Quake III engine, high detail settings and of course a heavy time-demo to get test results will will now use this software.

Powered by the Quake III Arena engine, the Wolfenstein universe explodes with the kind of epic environments, A.I., firepower and cinematic effects that only a game created by true masters can deliver. The dark reich's closing in. The time to act is now. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.

a highly decorated Army Ranger recruited into the Office of Secret Actions (OSA) tasked with escaping and then returning to Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to thwart Heinrich Himmler's occult and genetic experiments. Himmler believes himself to be a reincarnation of a 10th century dark prince, Henry the Fowler, also known as Heinrich. Through genetic engineering and the harnessing of occult powers, Himmler hopes to raise an unstoppable army to level the Allies once and for all.

That being said, RTCW boasts very nice textures, impressive effects and fantastic character models. At this point not many videocards have been included in this specific comparison, there will be when time passes of course.

Since we are gamers we always prefer to include some gaming benchmarks to show you the performance differences. The RTCW benchmark is rather CPU hungry and is very sensitive to system changes therefore we chose to use it in this review. The big difference between the somewhat performance wise equal KT400 is roughly 3 frames per second. For the sake of it I also included some results of the now officially old KT133 based VIA platform. It surprized me to see that score as get this, it's running SDRAM. A Pentium 4 (class C) system with the new 800 MHz FSB would be faster here in all cases though, but that's not what this review is about and not at all comparative as we do not have a P4 CPU matching the Athlon 1800+ class.