History YMMV / Wolfenstein2009

* HilariousInHindsight: Peter Jessop, who voiced B.J. Blazkowicz in this game, would go on to voice [[VideoGame/Fallout4 another soldier]] that fought enemies with access to [[FrickinLaserBeams laser weapons]], robots, bio-engineered creations, and PoweredArmor, while using the latter himself. Not to mention as well he'd already voiced another character in [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon another game]] which featured all of those [[PsychicPowers and]] [[OurGhostsAreDifferent more]]. Then a couple years after that game was released, B.J. himself ([[TheOtherDarrin though no longer voiced by Jessop]]) would start wearing powered armor [[spoiler: and be given [[ArtificialHuman an artificially-created human body]]]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''.

* GeniusBonus: Fictitious weapons appear to be based on real-life guns. Both the Particle Cannon and Leichenfaust have the stock and pistol grip of the [=MG42=], but a particular standout is the [[LightningGun Tesla Gun]], which uses the grips and receiver of the relatively obscure Polish ''Blyskawica'' submachine gun from WWII. Its name is Polish for... 'Lightning'. Oh, and there's also the relationship with B.J.'s surname.

* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: The Castle mission. The Resistance members will annoy you by way of their constant use of ContinueYourMissionDammit.
-->''"We have to save [[spoiler:Caroline]]"''\\
''"For [[spoiler:Caroline]]!"''

* MostAnnoyingSound: The Castle mission. The Resistance members will annoy you by way of their constant use of ContinueYourMissionDammit.

* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler:Caroline Becker... [[DisneyDeath or so it seemed]] [[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder at the time]]]].
** [[spoiler:[[Wolfenstein2TheNewColossus But then she actually does die...]]]].

** If you time your shots right and have the right weapon, you can blow away the first Despoiled that serves as a boss in under ten seconds. The latter confrontations with Despoiled are... harder.

* GeniusBonus: Fictitious weapons appear to be based on real-life guns. The Tesla Gun (a gun shooting lightning arcs) uses the grips and receiver of the relatively obscure Polish ''Blyskawica'' submachine gun from WWII. Its name is Polish for... 'Lightning'. Oh, and there's also the relationship with B.J.'s surname.

* HilariousInHindsight: Peter Jessop, who voiced B.J. Blazkowicz in this game, would go on to voice [[VideoGame/Fallout4 another soldier]] that fought enemies with access to [[FrickinLaserBeams laser weapons]], robots, bio-engineered creations, and PoweredArmor, while using the latter himself. Not to mention as well he'd [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon already voiced another character]] who had to deal with most of those (albeit not as directly as the player character). Then a couple years after that game was released, B.J. himself ([[TheOtherDarrin though no longer voiced by Jessop]]) would start wearing powered armor [[spoiler: and be given [[ArtificialHuman an artificially-created human body]]]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''.

--> ''"We have to save [[spoiler:Caroline]]"''
--> ''"For [[spoiler:Caroline]]!"''

* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler:Caroline Becker...[[DisneyDeath or so it seemed]] [[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder at the time]]]].

* GeniusBonus: Fictitious weapons appear to be based on real-life guns. Tesla Pistol (a gun shooting lightning arcs) uses the grips and receiver of the relatively obscure Polish ''Blyskawica'' submachine gun from [=WW2=]. Its name is Polish for... 'Lightning'. Oh, and there's also the relationship with B.J.'s surname.

* HilariousInHindsight: Peter Jessop, who voiced B.J. Blazkowicz in this game, would go on to voice [[VideoGame/Fallout4 another soldier]] that fought enemies with access to [[FrickinLaserBeams laser weapons]], robots, bio-engineered creations, and PoweredArmor, while using the latter himself. Then a couple years after that game was released, B.J. himself ([[TheOtherDarrin though no longer voiced by Jessop]]) would start wearing PoweredArmor [[spoiler: and be given [[ArtificialHuman an artificially-created human body]]]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''.

* HilariousInHindsight: Peter Jessop, who voiced B.J. Blazkowicz in this game, would go on to voice [[VideoGame/Fallout4 another soldier]] that fought enemies with access to [[FrickinLaserBeams laser weapons]], robots, bio-engineered creations, and PoweredArmor, while using the latter himself. Then eight years after this game was released, B.J. himself ([[TheOtherDarrin though no longer voiced by Jessop]]) would start wearing PoweredArmor [[spoiler: [[ArtificialHuman and have an artificially-created human body]]]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Perhaps less a successor to ''RTCW'' than a reskin of the basic design for ''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}'' 1 and 2's gameplay style. Also the closest we will get to a fifth Raven/id Software-made ''Heretic'' or ''Hexen'' game until [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld the franchise's rights problems are resolved]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: Perhaps less a successor to ''RTCW'' than a reskin of the basic design for ''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}'' 1 and 2's gameplay style.

* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler:Caroline Becker...[[DisneyDeath or so it seemed]] [[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrderat the time]]]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: Perhaps less a successor to ''RTCW'' than a reskin of the basic design for Hexen 1 and 2's gameplay style.

* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler:Caroline Becker]].

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that a group opposing the Nazis shares a name with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_(political_party) Greek Neo-Nazi political party]] that would gain a disturbing amount of power a few years after the game's release. [[spoiler: Especially since the ingame group's leader is a traitor working with the Nazis.]]

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A common complaint on release week. The most common gripes include the lack of a [[GatlingGood Chaingun]], the use of RegeneratingHealth in single-player and even in multiplayer mode, and how the game's multiplayer was simplified from the much more famous ''RTCW'' and its multiplayer spin-off, ''Enemy Territory''.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music that plays in the Thule ruins, sounds very similar to "The Ark's Theme" from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

* GeniusBonus: Fictitious weapons appear to be based on real-life guns. Tesla Pistol (a gun shooting lightning arcs) uses the grips and receiver of the relatively obscure Polish ''Blyskawica'' submachine gun from WW2. Its name is Polish for... 'Lightning'. Oh, and there's also the relationship with B.J.'s surname.

* EightDeadlyWords: This is how [[Machinima/FreemansMind Ross Scott]] felt during his AprilFoolsDay [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4LaR1C6Xds review]] video in ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'''s, saying that that nobody is really ''reacting'' to or treating any sense of urgency to the horrors around them, which fails to invest him in the characters, which in turn fails to invest him in the game itself. It was bad enough that he couldn't bring himself to finish the game, a first for the series.

* EightDeadlyWords: This is how [[Machinima/FreemansMind Ross Scott]] felt during his AprilFoolsDay ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4LaR1C6Xds review]]'' video in ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'''s, saying that that nobody is really ''reacting'' to or treating any sense of urgency to the horrors around them, which fails to invest him in the characters, which in turn fails to invest him in the game itself. It was bad enough that he couldn't bring himself to finish the game, a first for the series.

* EightDeadlyWords: This is how [[Machinima/FreemansMind Ross Scott]] felt during his ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4LaR1C6Xds Game Dungeon]]'' video ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'', in its AprilFoolsDay review, saying that that nobody is really ''reacting'' to or treating any sense of urgency to the horrors around them, which fails to invest him in the characters, which in turn fails to invest him in the game itself. It was bad enough that he couldn't bring himself to finish the game, a first for the series.

* EightDeadlyWord: This is how [[Machinima/FreemansMind Ross Scott]] felt during his ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4LaR1C6Xds Game Dungeon]]'' video ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'', in its April Fools' Day review, saying that that nobody is really ''reacting'' to or treating any sense of urgency to the horrors around them, which fails to invest him in the characters, which in turn fails to invest him in the game itself. It was bad enough that he couldn't bring himself to finish the game, a first for the series.

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that a group opposing the Nazis shares a name with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_(political_party) Greek Neo-Nazi political party]] that would gain a disturbing amount of power a few years after the game's release.