VU Games Gives Away Ground Control, Soundtracks 30
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the free download page for PC RTS title Ground Control over at FilePlanet, "released for free" to help promote newly released Ground Control II, in a similar move to the recent free availability of VU Games' Tribes I and Tribes II. VU Games has also released the soundtrack to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay for free download, as composed by Gustaf 'Lizardking' Grefberg, and previous free MP3 soundtracks have included Metal Arms: Glitch In The System and The Hobbit.
Re:Too bad it's on file planet. (Score:4, Informative)
The biggest problem actually comes in with the CD keys. I own Ground Control and I'm fairly damned positive that it used a CD key for installation purposes. Tribes 2 required a key and FilePlanet was the only place authorized to give them out; *that* killed that freebie.
Tribes can be found at http://www.schkerke.com/olate/index.php?category=
Ground Control Is Very Fun! (Score:4, Informative)
I particularly enjoyed the fully 3D camera in this game and the graphics were very sweet for the time. At that time, I was running a P3 600 with 128 MB of RAM and a 64 MB Kyro 2 Graphics card. I had to turn down detail a bit for that rig to keep up so if you've a good modern system, it should look quite sweet. I fired it up on my new machine a couple of weeks ago to revisit the game when I heard the sequal was coming out and it still looks very nice today.
Anyway, if you've the time and bandwidth, this free game is WELL worth getting.
Re:No, it isn't free (Score:2, Informative)
If I remember correctly, none of my FilePlanet info is real. I just use my usual Spamhole address, and then type in random stuff. Works great =)
Re:Too bad it's on file planet. (Score:4, Informative)
I just did it with 0 problems, it took me 5 minutes to get the Tribes 2 CD key.
No add-on? (Score:2, Informative)
When I first read the article headline, I got all excited that at last I could pick up this add-on, but I guess it's not to be.