Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a
first-person shooter video game published by
Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for
Microsoft Windows and subsequently for
PlayStation 2,
Xbox,
Linux and
Macintosh. The single player game was
developed by
Gray Matter Interactive and
Nerve Software developed its multiplayer mode.
id Software, the creators of
Wolfenstein 3D, oversaw the development and were credited as executive producers. The multiplayer side eventually became the most popular part of the game, and was influential in the genre.
Splash Damage, an independently owned game developer in
London, created some of the maps for the Game of the Year edition. Splash Damage also developed a downloadable multi-player only sequel called , which is one of the most popular free downloadable games on the internet. A further sequel, titled
Wolfenstein, was released on August 18, 2009.