By Alec Meer on October 23rd, 2008 at 6:42 pm.
At last – Good Old Games, the lovely, cheapie, DRM-free (DON’T SAY A BLOODY BORING WORD ABOUT BLOODY BORING DRM) download service specifically dedicated to olde worlde classics of PC gaming – and often out of print ones at that – has finally thrown open its doors to the whole wide world. It’s no longer a closed beta, but an open beta – by which it presumably means ‘actually launched but “beta” sounds cooler’. Nonetheless – woo!
The beculted likes of Fallout, Sacrifice and Hostile Waters remain the headliners, but opening day brings with it some new sign-ups: publishers Strategy First and Piranha Bytes. The former most notably brings Jagged Alliance, and the latter the original Gothic. Oddly, Strategy First have also thrown the first Sacred in there, which is actually quite a new game by GoG’s standards. Still no Planescape: Torment though, sadly :(
The prices remain delightful: $5.99 or $9.99, which is practically nothing. Well, enough for a home-cooked meal. Or a fancy hat. Or a fortnight’s worth of cat food. But really not a lot.
The site is, of course, over here, and there’s a press release fulla factoids below.
GOG.com Open Beta Embarks; New Companies Climb Aboard
Everyone Now Able to Buy Value-Packed and DRM-Free Classic PC Games
Warsaw, Poland – October 23, 2008. GOG.com, or Good Old Games, the digital distribution site with DRM-free PC classics, today opened its doors to the public as it moved into its Open Beta phase after a highly successful Early Access Beta that saw tens of thousands of gamers satisfy their deepest desires… for classic PC games, you sicko! Additionally, GOG.com announced that two new companies have taken up arms in the battle to bring classic PC games at low prices to the masses. The award-winning worldwide publisher, Strategy First, is bringing hit titles Sacred Gold, Jagged Alliance, Disciples Gold and more to GOG.com, while a deal with Pluto 13 means that classic-games fans will have the opportunity to play Piranha Bytes’ acclaimed RPG, Gothic.
With Strategy First and Pluto 13 joining Codemasters and Interplay, the GOG.com Open Beta will expand in the coming weeks to offer more than 50 games from the 90s and 2000s, all optimized to work on modern PCs and packed with bonus content. Also, the games are inexpensive, leading to a minimal impact on international credit markets; GOG.com is doing its part to crush the current economic recession.
“We’re elated to welcome these new companies to the GOG.com catalogue. It’s a great demonstration of their commitment to gamers, and we’re sure that our extremely devoted community will welcome Strategy First with open arms, and will have a great time revisiting the immersive world of Gothic as the Open Beta begins,” said Adam Oldakowski, Managing Director of GOG.com. “The success of the Early Access Beta showed us that there is huge demand for DRM-free classic PC games, and it helped us to prepare the site for the public launch. We are endlessly grateful to the users for their support and assistance.”
Strategy First games will begin appearing in the GOG.com games catalogue with the release of Disciples: Sacred Lands Gold Edition on October 28, the same day that will see the launch of Piranha Bytes’ Gothic. More titles, as well as announcements of additional publishers, will follow in the coming weeks. Go to GOG.com and dive right into the world of classic PC gaming.
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About GOG.com
Backed by CD Projekt, one of Eastern and Central Europe’s largest publishers and distributors, GOG.com – or Good Old Games – is the ultimate destination for classic PC games. The site offers gamers some of the greatest PC games of all time for a low price and free from copy protection. GOG.com is much more than just another digital distribution site, featuring an extensive community component that allows players to rate, review and discuss their favourite PC games, as well as insightful articles from respected games journalists.
About CD Projekt
Founded in 1994, CD Projekt is one of Eastern and Central Europe’s largest game distributors, with offices in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest, and employs more than 250 people across its diverse businesses. The company has used innovative marketing and distribution practices to invigorate the Polish games market and to position itself as a leader in the localisation and publishing of world-class games, having brought such hits as the Neverwinter Nights, Diablo and Warcraft series to the region with great success. CD Projekt Group includes the publishing and distribution companies in Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Hungary; the dedicated Localisation Centre, which is the leading provider of cross-platform porting, quality assurance and localisation services in the region; CD Projekt RED, the development branch responsible for the hit role-playing franchise, The Witcher; Metropolis Software, currently developing the anticipated multiplatform sci-fi shooter, THEY; and GOG.com, the ultimate online destination for DRM-free classic PC games. More information about CD Projekt can be found online at www.cdprojekt.com.
23/10/2008 at 18:47 Pags says:
$6.99? I’m getting an offer of $5.99 for most, looks like you’re being robbed blind Alec!
23/10/2008 at 18:48 Alec Meer says:
Actually, I’m just blind. Fixed.
23/10/2008 at 18:51 M_the_C says:
I took part in the closed beta and was very impressed with the service.
Not many games that I want to get yet, but I did finally get around to playing Sacrifice.
Roll on SS2.
23/10/2008 at 19:02 Flubb says:
Battlechess! Castles!
23/10/2008 at 19:03 Gorgeras says:
There is no excuse now. Everyone buy Sacrifice. I will be, even though I have my original one right here with the box. Buy it en masse. Buy multiple copies for your friends. Just about any PC can run it on high settings now. Did you know that you can install ‘spawn’ copies of it’s multiplayer off just one disc for epic LAN battles? Do it.
We may yet see it: Sacrifice 2, with HDR and Havok physics. If you BUY IT this time.
23/10/2008 at 19:04 Meat Circus says:
I think I may have asked this before, but do their version of Fallout/2 support the hi-res patches?
Also, they need to use magics to find a way to get PS:T on this mother sharpish.
23/10/2008 at 19:06 Diddledoo says:
Meat Circus: Or I could just pirate it and hope my vote gets counted.
23/10/2008 at 19:07 Diddledoo says:
Was funnier before the censorship kicked in.
23/10/2008 at 19:08 Shamanic Miner says:
Die by the Sword and Limb from Limb expansion!
Uncoordinated chuckles here I come.
23/10/2008 at 19:08 Pags says:
Quick question: is Die by the Sword any good? I know it isn’t asking much to part with $5.99 for two games, but I’m seven kinds of broke right now and any expenditure is unwanted expenditure.
23/10/2008 at 19:11 Tei says:
I have downloaded Giant Citizen Kabuto, or something alike (forgot the name). I don’t plan to really play it, as is a very old game.
23/10/2008 at 19:13 The Dark One says:
@Meat Circus
Yes, I can say that their version of Fallout supports the hi-res patch. It means you see edges to areas that would normally be obscured and the HUD’s text is a bit eye-squinty, but that’s to be expected.
23/10/2008 at 19:17 LionsPhil says:
Ooh. I like their terms. Shame they don’t have System Shock or Syndicate in their catalogue. :/
Meat: they actually state the patchlevel of the game you get; for Fallout 1, it’s 1.1.
23/10/2008 at 19:20 Klaus says:
Sacrifice, from what I read, seems awesome, so I’m pretty sure I’m going to get that.
23/10/2008 at 19:20 Nimic says:
Die by the Sword there?! Epic multiplayer.
23/10/2008 at 19:22 Pags says:
LionsPhil: I’m not entirely sure how legal it is, but I’m pretty sure you can get Syndicate as abandonware; but then don’t take my word for it, abandonware is always a hazy issue.
23/10/2008 at 19:26 Meat Circus says:
@Diddledoo:
I would never pirate these games. GoG seem to be the very embodiment of Internet Lovely, and I want to smother them with my money-kisses.
23/10/2008 at 19:51 RichPowers says:
GOG is such an awesome idea; I’m surprised something like this wasn’t created sooner. Hopefully strong sales of existing titles will encourages more publishers to sell their back catalogs through GOG.
23/10/2008 at 19:54 Shamanic Miner says:
Pags: I loved DBTS at the time, I’ll know in a while if it’s aged well.
Shogo!
23/10/2008 at 19:59 Mr Pink says:
The only tragedy is that the dollar is currently soaring in price…
23/10/2008 at 20:03 Dolphan says:
@Tei
Apologies if you’re kidding, my ability to tell goes downhill day by day. If you’re not: play Giants. It’s fantastic, and there’s been very little of anything much like it. Ever.
23/10/2008 at 20:07 Tei says:
@Dolphan: I lied a bit, I am on the 3th level (level?). It seems awesome big, and I think I have all the tools (reads: not). My companion (Tel?) is crazy.
Now, to give suggestions back. If you havent not played Sacrifice, get it. Is awesome RTS gameplay with cool graphics and coool ideas.
23/10/2008 at 20:10 Meat Circus says:
What is Sacrifice and why are lots of people telling me to buy it?
My retrogaming time is currently taken up struggling through the X-COM pack on Steam.
Flip me, it’s hard.
23/10/2008 at 20:14 Smurfy says:
And still no digital distribution services have prices other than dollars. Come on, get with the freakin’ program.
23/10/2008 at 20:33 mbp says:
I really hope gog is a roaring success but I think I may have discovered a flaw in their business strategy – I already have most of the games in their catalogue :( . That said It probably worth spending $5.99 to get their “guaranteed to work on a modern pc” version than trying to install and patch from my original copy (floppy disks???). Their forums are a great place to discuss older games – I have already done my best to toot the horn for Sacrifice.
23/10/2008 at 20:39 VelvetFistIronGlove says:
DRM-free download! Manual! Wallpapers! Soundtrack! Guaranteed XP + Vista support!
Steam should be this good; and I’m a big fan of Steam. GOG is the best thing that’s happened to back-catalogue games.
So I now own Fallout, Fallout 2, Freespace 2, and Descent.
23/10/2008 at 20:45 Shadowcat says:
Tei: Enjoy! Giants is one of my all-time favourite games. I’m glad you were joking about not playing it!!!
23/10/2008 at 20:47 Ergates says:
Sacrifice:
It’s a bit like Chaos – in that you have a character that exists in the game world and you fight battles by magicing up units and casting spells. But not turn based. Or 2D.
It’s decidedly weird and whacky and very super. Enourmously replayable too – you get to pick which battles you fight, which in turn determines which units you get (you get new units by beating other gods – or capturing them in combat, I forget). And it has earthworm Jim as a god. And another god who has a helium filled balloon for a head.
Typing this is making me want to play it again…
23/10/2008 at 20:53 Noc says:
One of my great sorrows is that I could never get my friends to pick up Sacrifice, so I could never play them in it.
If only I had badgered them harder!
23/10/2008 at 21:09 Paul B says:
“And it has earthworm Jim as a god. And another god who has a helium filled balloon for a head.”
Sounds good to me. I’ll have to try it :)
I’ve already downloaded Freespace 2 from GoG, and applied the community patches. I just hope GoG becomes successful and lots more old games are added to this service.
23/10/2008 at 21:18 Mo says:
What’s the verdict on Fallout Tactics? I remember it getting pretty good reviews, and Metacritic seems mostly positive. How does the story/atmosphere/etc hold up? I’ve tried so hard to get into Fallout 1/2, but just couldn’t get over how awfully dull the combat was, so I figured Tactics (and 3) are the best way to get my fix of post-apocalypse. :)
23/10/2008 at 21:19 Skurmedel says:
Been on GoG for almost a month now, it’s awesome. The site spanks Steam and any other download service, it’s just extremely well implemented.
23/10/2008 at 21:24 subedii says:
Awww, this was my one chance to make mention of DRM in a positive post and you’ve ruined that for me. Thanks a lot.
23/10/2008 at 21:28 groovychainsaw says:
I agree with others here, ive been in the beta for over a month – its slick, easy to use, has lovely extras (soundtracks, wallpapers etc. with each purchase) and really seems to listen to their users (so faR). It gets 9/10 from me (just needs more games! and maybe prices in £s so that the value doesn’t start to drop now that our currency is in the crapper)
23/10/2008 at 21:34 Pags says:
While I’m downloading it, may as well ask, who wants to engage in clumsy and comical swordfights with me in Die by the Sword?
23/10/2008 at 21:37 N'Al says:
Swordfights against Gary Busey?!? I think not!
23/10/2008 at 21:40 Pags says:
You’re overcome with fear I see. Fear. F. E. A. R. That stands for False Evidence Appearing Real [/busey quote]
23/10/2008 at 22:03 Zeno says:
I was in the “closed” beta, but didn’t buy anything. They just didn’t have anything that I wanted to play that I didn’t already own.
23/10/2008 at 22:09 Down Rodeo says:
Odd question, but any ideas on how it runs on the Linux platform? As many of these games are old I’d imagine that the performance hit is not major but if anyone’s had the experience then, you know, it’d be cool to know.
Well saying that, I suppose a few of these run on DOSBox anyway? Here I begin to show my ignorance.
23/10/2008 at 22:19 LionsPhil says:
Given that the downloads are apparently self-extracting EXEs, Linuxry would (as ever) be a faff; but once unpacked, unless they’ve seriously been meddling, DOSBox’s compatability is pretty good these days.
Bear in mind that many of those (e.g. Fallout) are Windows games, though.
23/10/2008 at 22:21 Butler` says:
So I now own Fallout, Fallout 2, Freespace 2, and Descent.
Actually not, you only own a licence to play them!
Dear lord, did I just take pedantry to a new level?!
23/10/2008 at 22:29 LionsPhil says:
This is the Internets—pedantry overshot that long ago. Just you wait until someone gets you for using two punctuation marks, when you clearly meant an interrobang.
23/10/2008 at 22:30 Erlend M says:
Independence War 1 working on XP omgplz omgplz omgplz
I loved Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos, but I never found the first game. Did anyone here play it? Is it as good as I want it to be in my mind?
23/10/2008 at 22:30 Kismet says:
Down Rodeo, I haven’t tried myself yet, but this thread should help. :)
23/10/2008 at 22:45 teo says:
OH SHIT
I’M GOING TO WASTE ALL MY SAVINGS HERE
They have kingpin!!!
23/10/2008 at 23:22 Ecko says:
Bugger. RPS, I am in my first year of university and you have so far made me buy in the few weeks I have been enlightened by you: World of Goo, Fallout (Had FO2, never occured to me for some stupid reason to get the first), Sacrifice
World of Goo was brilliance, but onto the topic at hand, goddamn, Sacrifice is fun!
23/10/2008 at 23:23 jonfitt says:
I-War 1 is in some ways better.
You are the commander on a corvette bridge so to do things like target missiles at locations, you switch to the weapons officer’s screen. Most things can be done from the main pilots seat, but it’s a nice touch and the only game to ever get close to that starship captain feel. It makes it harder to play though :)
The game consists of highly scripted missions, and not the Elite-like open exploration. I like that sometimes.
The shield system is punishingly hard though.
I just brought my I-War1 CD back from the UK with the intent of trying it again, and finally finishing it.
Also brought back my original PS:T CDs too :)
23/10/2008 at 23:24 jonfitt says:
I had Sacrifice and enjoyed it. Don’t think I competed it though. Might be worth a reply.
23/10/2008 at 23:30 jonfitt says:
On Die By The Sword:
It had a completely unique sword scheme where the 9 Num pad keys (Or Mouse?) corresponded to where you wanted to move your sword to in space, so swipe right/left, you pressed 6 – 4.
Swords didn’t pass through objects so you actually impacted enemies, and realy blocked, and limbs could be chopped off.
The game modes were deathmatch, deathmatch vs the computer, or Tomb Raider-like story mode.
All sounds good, and once you got the hang of things you could be a bad-ass, but death came quickly (a beheading is a beheading with 1 good hit), and no matter how good a player you were you *always* looked like a spaz*.
* Or modern PolCorrect equivalent.
23/10/2008 at 23:31 jambamagamba says:
If they manage to get hold of Omikron i’ll freak.
23/10/2008 at 23:38 Down Rodeo says:
Muchos gracias RPS comments thread! That link’s great Kismet, according to the posts there the ones that work with DOSBox are pretty damn good while the self-extracting files work fine under Wine. So that makes me a happy camper, albeit one who will spend too much money and not do enough University work.
Also, Butler` (My backquote key is set to open a terminal, just like in games, you’re not making this easy for me :P):
From their “About us” page. I hope they’re not lying.
Oh crap, I’ve brought up DRM haven’t I? Sorry guys…
23/10/2008 at 23:47 jonfitt says:
Darn, they don’t have Trespasser. I think the key is in the service title, I don’t think it’s a ‘good’ old game.
However, I played the demo years ago at the time, and never found it for sale.
I really liked the full physics simulation and the fact that even your gun was an in world solid object which made it hard to swing around a rifle in cramped conditions etc.
Does anyone have it? How would it seem now when we have HL2 etc. Is it worth playing now for the novelty of it, or has it been made almost obsolete?
23/10/2008 at 23:53 Y3k-Bug says:
From what I remember of Trespasser it wasn’t very good when it debuted, let alone with the passage of time.
And my word, gog.com looks amazing. Signing up for an account now. How are the download speeds for those who have tried it?
23/10/2008 at 23:54 Saflo says:
Well, it has dinosaurs in it.
24/10/2008 at 00:38 hydra9 says:
A few points:
1. They have a wishlist, where you can vote for games you’d like to see in the future! http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist
2. Kingpin! So underrated – very glad to see it there.
3. Trespasser is not *really* worth playing. In my opinion, it’s not terrible… but it’s a barely finished game… some good ideas, lots of incomplete ideas, some horrible level design. It’s an interesting experiment… but I can’t say that’d I’d recommend it.
4. (Vote for Pathologic on the wishlist)
24/10/2008 at 00:41 Pags says:
@hydra9: interesting how point 3 and 4 kind of contradict each other.
24/10/2008 at 00:44 hydra9 says:
@Pags:
Even as I typed point 4, I knew someone would pick up on that. What can I say? I’m a sucker for experimental games. Some work better than others, and results may vary depending on who you are.
24/10/2008 at 00:58 pi8you says:
Gods, they’ve got Die By The Sword? I think I’ve still got the original discs around somewhere, but at $6, I think I’m down for a rebuy. Crazy fun, though it could definitely use a facelift.
24/10/2008 at 01:02 Pags says:
I get you. I would definitely say Pathologic is certainly the more interesting of the two anyway; Trespasser was a game with a lot of good ideas for how it should play, whereas Pathologic was a game with a lot of good ideas as to what it should be about, rather than how it should play. If that makes any sense.
24/10/2008 at 01:06 hydra9 says:
Mr. Busey, I think that makes sense, but I’m blinded by your teeth so I can’t say for sure.
24/10/2008 at 01:30 Pags says:
I have many other pearls of wisdom: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=amIh-Jovulw
Also, I see Outcast on the wishlist. More people should vote for that because that game was incredible. Honestly one of my all time favourites.
24/10/2008 at 01:38 Elyscape says:
I’m proud to say that I am the one who added Pathologic to the wishlist.
24/10/2008 at 01:57 hydra9 says:
It would be great to see Omikron and Anachronox on that site.
24/10/2008 at 02:08 Pags says:
Omikron! Another of my all time favourites. God I love games sometimes.
24/10/2008 at 02:27 Ginger Yellow says:
I’m definitely going to be picking up Sacrifice. I enjoyed the demo when it came out, but couldn’t afford the game. By the time I had a mind to buy it, there weren’t any copies available.
“If you’re not: play Giants. It’s fantastic, and there’s been very little of anything much like it. Ever.”
Indeed, although if you played MDK you’ll feel right at home- unsurprisingly, given the heritage. It’s also properly hilarious.
24/10/2008 at 03:21 perilisk says:
I can’t wait to finally own Giants and Sacrifice (and maybe, one day, Anachronox, Syndicate, and a functional version of Dungeon Keeper. Plus the old Lucasarts adventures). I have a feeling I’m going to be catching up on a lot of games I should have played and never got around to. My habit just got cheaper. Definitely a place to direct my friends with crappier PCs who need some quality gaming experiences.
24/10/2008 at 03:41 devlocke says:
Am I missing something, or do they only have an expandalone for Jagged Alliance 2 that they’ve had since the closed beta began? I’ve been curious about Jagged Alliance for a long time, but I don’t want to start with 2.5, which is why I didn’t buy it when I bought Shogo a month or two ago.
24/10/2008 at 05:13 espy says:
Sid Meyer’s Alpha Centauri plus SMAX would be a fitting addition to GOG, don’t you think? I actually still have both on disk, but in a freaky, mangled, half-german, half-english version. It actually switches languages mid sentence. “I have no time for your ökologischen Wahnsinn” and so on :D
Anyhow: SMAC. It’s good, and it’s old. One of the best games ever made, I’d venture. Go gog!
24/10/2008 at 08:00 aldo says:
It has Freespace – does it support the source code modifications? (and should I thus start modding for it again, in the vain hope of some small flicker of interest?)
24/10/2008 at 08:14 diebroken says:
SHOGO! Excellent news. Now if I could just get my (bloody) hands on Blood II: The Chosen… :)
24/10/2008 at 09:43 Urael says:
Aldo: Yes, the Open Source mods are fully supported. And utterly gorgeous.
24/10/2008 at 09:50 Mitza says:
YES! Voted for Anachronox, something that I urge you all to do!
24/10/2008 at 10:43 Anonymous says:
Devlocke: Yeah, they don’t have JA 1 or 2, just the expansion for 2. I’m pretty sure they’re getting JA 1 & 2 at some point.
Also: People, vote for the Wizardry series. And Duke Nukem Forever.
24/10/2008 at 11:19 Gurrah says:
They even have Redneck Rampage, now that was one hilarious shooter. Chickens with a stick of dynamite up their ass being launched from a handheld ballista, anyone?
24/10/2008 at 12:05 Morte says:
So if you’re in the UK do you get the US version of Fallout 2, or the European version that had the children removed (and various storylines compromised) for ratings reasons?
24/10/2008 at 12:42 araczynski says:
another game downloader that makes you give up your consumer right to resell what you bought.
another game downloader i’ll be ignoring.
24/10/2008 at 12:45 YogSo says:
Ok, I have already added my vote for Outcast, Omikron, Pathologic, Anachronox, SM’s Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire and a bunch of other great classics that should definitivelly be available to everyone.
Now, I ask you to vote for another neglected gem that is being overlooked again by the gamers: Urban Chaos has only 30 votes at the moment. What a shame.
(Oh, and while you are at it, you should all vote for Duke Nukem Forever ;) )
24/10/2008 at 12:45 Heliocentric says:
its not a “downloader”, you just download the games off the site.
But, yeah i guess you dont have the right to sell the games. No bothered myself mind you, I’m a hoarder.
24/10/2008 at 12:47 Heliocentric says:
Morte, you can always mod the children back in if you really need to shred them with a minigun.
24/10/2008 at 12:51 Paul Moloney says:
“another game downloader that makes you give up your consumer right to resell what you bought.”
Are you that fricking stingy that you need to resell class games that cost you less than a pint?
P.
24/10/2008 at 12:52 Pags says:
Voted for Urban Chaos, YogSo. Another of my favourites from yester-year, and another game that was ignored by the general public. I think I must be a hex on games or something.
24/10/2008 at 12:52 YogSo says:
@Morte:
I don’t know for sure which version of F2 it is, but if it is indeed the UK (censored) version, the only thing they did was removing the children sprites. Yeah, that was their well-thought solution to address the rating problem. If that’s the case, then it is a simple matter of downloading the ubiquitous “Fallout 2 children patch” (that contains said sprites) and you are good to go.
24/10/2008 at 12:58 Pags says:
I wonder if Hyperblade is on that wishlist actually… why yes it is, but with only 14 votes it’d kind of be like voting for the Liberal Democrats. Nevermind then.
24/10/2008 at 13:02 Michael says:
Do your good selves a disfavour, and go through the GOG.com wishlist.
A few of my favourite suggestions, courtesy of the general public:
-Wii Sports. yes.
-Unreal Tournament 3.
-Mirrors Edge (yes, that one that’s not been released yet. A good old game though, right?)
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding somewhere.
24/10/2008 at 13:12 Michael says:
Oh, another gem:
Whaky Well. It has five votes, and Google can’t find it, which makes me think I might be right in assuming he (and all four others) meant Wacky Wheels.
Don’t mind me, I actually enjoy subjecting myself to the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel types.
Is it a way to feel better about myself? Maybe. Or maybe I just like to grit my teeth and make sarcastic quips about them.
24/10/2008 at 15:32 Lucas says:
I signed up yesterday and bought Hostile Waters.
This is bar none the best ANYTHING online store site I’ve ever seen. It totally floored me. There is a communal wishlist, game forums, reviews, extra download material, game-specific support, pre-patched downloads that run on XP/Vista, and no shenanigans.
24/10/2008 at 15:54 Cataclysm says:
Do they do a game called Rune?
Now that was a fun game multiplayer. It was like Die By The Sword, except less buggy.
Giants is fun – Humanlike dudes VS a Giant VS Sea Witches.
Sacrifice is an awesome game and was surprised is didn’t get more credit when it was released.
24/10/2008 at 16:42 Paul Moloney says:
Does anyone know if GOG have an alert/email feature for new games? Just so I don’t have to revisit their site all the time.
P.
24/10/2008 at 18:39 hydra9 says:
I loved Urban Chaos, apart from the lack of in-mission save. That, unfortunately, killed it for me in the end. Without that flaw, it would’ve been a classic.
24/10/2008 at 20:49 Fumarole says:
They have an RSS feed to keep up with the news. Not sure about the email newsletter though.
24/10/2008 at 21:16 Smurfy says:
More like Good Old Lames!
Naw it’s awesome.
25/10/2008 at 00:36 Flimgoblin says:
too many games to play.. aiee!
25/10/2008 at 01:01 Shadowcat says:
Erlend M: jonfitt mostly said it, but here’s an old I-War review of mine, FWIW.
The I-War 2 bridge was something of a disappointment after I-War. I remember loading it up, and being confused that suddenly one person was supposed to man the thing. Mostly it’s a cosmetic difference, but ditching the weapons station was a significant change.
Personally I love the shield system :) Yet another example of Particle Systems going the extra mile in suspending disbelief. Just make sure you do actually understand it before you play. In combat, it’s very satisfying to use it successfully.
And adjusting for ‘inflation’, I still rate the I-War intro video as the single greatest video game CGI of all time.
26/10/2008 at 08:20 Tomzor! says:
If only these games were psp compatible… wait, I hear my dosbox calling!
31/10/2008 at 21:06 Prana Surge says:
No System Shock 2. What a huge disappointment.
08/03/2009 at 00:49 Jeff says:
<3 fallout
18/03/2009 at 20:41 weclock says:
just because your editors seem to get it wrong in every goddamn article, including the Derek Smart one, it’s GOG not gog or GoG or gOg, but all caps, Good Old Games. The lower case “o” is primarily only used for small words that don’t have much meaning like WoW is “of.” “of” is insignificant incomparison to World or Warcraft, which is why those two are capitalized in the name “World of Warcraft” as opposed to all 3 words
in Good Old Games, all three words are capitalized because all three are equally important.