Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Developer(s)Splash Damage
Publisher(s)Activision
Director(s)Richard Jolly
Producer(s)Jonathan Moses
Designer(s)Paul Wedgwood
Programmer(s)Arnout van Meer
Artist(s)Richard Jolly
Writer(s)Edward Stern
Composer(s)Bill Brown
SeriesWolfenstein
Engineid Tech 3
Platform(s)Linux, AROS, Windows, MorphOS, Mac OS X
Release
  • Linux, Windows
  • 29 May 2003[1]
  • Mac OS X
  • 22 March 2005[2]
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free and open-source multiplayer first-person shooter video game within the Wolfenstein series.[3][4] It was originally planned to be released as a commercial expansion pack to Return to Castle Wolfenstein and later as a standalone game. However, due to problems with the single-player aspect, the multiplayer portion was released on 29 May 2003 as a freeware standalone game. In January 2004, the source code for the game logic (not the game engine) was released to the benefit of its modding community.[5]

The game uses a modified Return to Castle Wolfenstein engine, itself being a heavily modified id Tech 3 engine, which has been open source since 2005. As of the first day of the August 2010 QuakeCon, the entire source code was released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.[6] The media assets remain proprietary.

On April 26, 2022, the game was released on Steam, and on October 20, 2022 on gog.com.[7][8]

A commercially released follow-up, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, was developed by Splash Damage.

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  2. ^ Cohen, Peter (22 March 2005). "Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory released for Mac". Macworld. Archived from the original on 24 March 2005. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory". Splash Damage Official Homepage. Splash Damage. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
  4. ^ "Frequently Asked Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Questions". Gamespy Planet Wolfenstein. IGN. Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
  5. ^ "Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory public source code". January 27, 2004. Archived from the original on February 4, 2005.
  6. ^ "Wolfenstein ET and RtCW Source Released". Gamespy Planet Quake. IGN. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011.
  7. ^ Plunkett, Luke (27 April 2022). "Classic Multiplayer Wolfenstein Game Launches On Steam 19 Years After Release". Kotaku.com. Kotaku. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is out NOW for free on GOG". Twitter.com. Retrieved 12 January 2023.