Alpha Centauri, Crusader: No Remorse hit GOG
The second round of classics Electronic Arts re-releases has arrived on digital distributor Good Old Games, in the form of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Crusader: No Remorse for $5.99 each.
Digital distributor Good Old Games has rolled out the second round of releases from to release to the Electronic Arts back-catalogue, launching the wonderful, wonderful Crusader: No Remorse and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri at $5.99 each.
Crusader: No Remorse, available here, is Origin Systems' splendid sci-fi third-person shooter from 1995. Creaky crone that I am, I have only a blurry mish-mash of memories involving shooting men, rolling sideways, playing with gas pipes, hacking into giant combat robots, and exploding much of the environment--fun video games.
Alpha Centauri, ici, is the venerated 1999 spin-off of Sid Meier's Civilization series. Blasting off into outer space, you get to colonise a new world, dealing with rival factions and xenoforms in the usual Civ tools--construction, research, diplomacy, and just plain killing.
Bullfrog classic Magic Carpet is also due this month, then the new releases are going on hiatus for a while. However, another twenty-odd vintage EA games are still coming to GOG. Unfortunately there are legal issues with the seminal System Shock series, so we might never see them re-released, but GOG is hoping to work it all out.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Alpha Centauri, Crusader: No Remorse hit GOG.
The second round of classics Electronic Arts re-releases has arrived on digital distributor Good Old Games, in the form of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Crusader: No Remorse for $5.99 each.-
I am glad some one is offering Alpha Centauri has a digital download as I have no clue where my original retail disc is. I totally had a blast playing that game.
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We all want SS/SS2, brickmatt.
We all do.
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I fired up SMAC and was a little bummed to see nothing was done to make it play nicer with modern Windows. It works, but it's a little wonky because the game runs at such a low resolution and color depth. I guess adjusting the renderer is outside the scope of whatever GoG does, but I had hope.
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Well, and because it was a 2D game based off of sprites, a higher resolution would just make everything tiny and in the middle of the screen. Some games on GOG like Arcanum have active communities that mod things like higher resolutions in but it mostly just makes everything tiny on the screen if you go native res on a modern monitor.
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I don't care about resolution so much as the color depth. If it could run in a window at the desktop color depth, that would be perfect. As it is, it changes the color depth to something pretty low (maybe even 8-bit?), so a lot of your other running programs get their palettes screwed up until they fully redraw themselves.
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that's actually quite a large technical challenge. games running in 256 colours back in the day relied on the screen palette in order to draw their sprites correctly, so it's not a simple case of just increasing the colour depth, you would also need to modify the renderer, which is definitely outside the scope of what GOG do.
It sucks, but unless they remade the graphics engine, there's not a lot that can be done about it :(
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Crusader: No Remorse was really ahead of its time. It was released all the way back in 1995 as a dos game, but featured charmingly corny fmv sequences with live actors, tracked music composed with actual wav samples (Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex also had this, but they came much later), ultra violent weapons (IE a gun that melts people's flesh off), and an awesome 90s sci-fi b-movie Robocopesque fictional universe. You could hack computers for passcodes which had to be entered manually, take control of robots, melt faces, and you had plenty of cool gadgets to complement your arsenal, and most of the scenery could be damaged or destroyed. And you did it all while playing a badass Ferrari red Boba Fett ripoff. Fair warning: the controls were pretty clunky even back when it was released, but the game more than makes up for that shortcoming in other ways.
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