And the same for Mission 3, wherein the Nazis steal the Spear back again and you have to claim it one last time. Both of the mission packs follow exactly the same story as Spear’s, with the ending being unchanged, and only the background information in the manuals providing any difference at all – basically, after you stole the Spear of Destiny at the end of the original game, the Nazis stole it back. In addition to replacing all 21 maps of the original game, the mission disks also replace nearly all of the textures, enemy sprites, weapons, and sound effects, lending a very different (and markedly cheesier) atmosphere. The cast of enemies is the same, but the game contains five new bosses: Trans Grosse, the elder brother of Hans and Gretel Grosse from the first game Barnacle Wilhelm, a sailor with a rocket launcher Uber-Mutant, who is pretty much what his name implies the Death Knight, a cybernetic warrior with two chainguns and two rocket launchers and finally, the Angel of Death.įormGen, id Software’s commercial distributor, created two expansion disks for Spear of Destiny, entitled Mission 2: Return to Danger and Mission 3: Ultimate Challenge, both marketed as “Accessory Game for Spear of Destiny” and released in 1994. This installment plays largely the same as the game before it the game consists of one single episode lasting for 18 (technically 19) levels, with two secret levels adding up to 21 in total. When he is defeated, his final words are, “You may wield the Spear.”

There, you must fend off evil spirits, and the final boss: the Angel of Death. There’s a really cool effect when you finally get the Spear – the entire level, save for the chamber in which you found the Spear, fades out and is replaced with a hellish red stone. Since said spear is currently in the hands of Nazi Germany, this does not bode well for the course of the War, so stealing it from them is paramount to the Allies’ continued victory. As BJ Blazkowicz, your mission is to locate and steal an artifact known as the “Spear of Destiny,” reputedly the same spear that pierced Jesus Christ shortly after his crucifixion, that legends claim makes its wielder invincible. Spear of Destiny essentially acts as a prequel to the Wolfenstein saga.

Spear of Destiny could be considered more of an expansion pack to Wolf3D than a separate game, but it was sold instead as its own game, specifically for distribution at retail stores instead of mail-ordered like its predecessor.

When Rise of the Triad stopped being a Wolfenstein sequel, the “true” sequel was developed in-house at id Software.

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