Two decades have passed since the release of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but that doesn’t seem to affect the number of active players on Steam, where many people are battling it out on different servers around the world. everyday of this multiplayer from Activision and Splash Damage. Unfortunately, it looks like German gamers will have to look for other alternatives, since from the shadows the game appears to have been banned.
Originally, the title was planned as an expansion for Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001, but finally saw the light of day in 2003 as a standalone multiplayer, which would bring a campaign, but ultimately after several development setbacks, it didn’t. didn’t.
The mystery of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory in German lands
The ban began to be discussed in Reddit threads, where user LongJonSiIver showed captures where we see that in Germany players cannot buy the title in the Steam store, which came into force in April of this year, although officially at the moment no one has spoken about it.
Although many of our readers are aware of the stringency of German regulations with anything to do with Nazism and even led to Wolfenstein games being specifically localized in this territory, as of 2018, the use of National Socialist symbology for entertainment and educational use is permitted, so this to prohibit
Gabriel Fuentes
Translator and localizer of video games passionate about retro titles and simulators. He’s never let go of a controller since he got an Atari 2600.
