Fallout, Freespace, Giants, MDK and other Interplay games 50% off only until July 4
Full list:
Battle Chess Special Edition
Castles + Castles 2
Conquest of the New World
Descent + Descent 2
Descent 3 + Expansion
Die by the Sword + Expansion
Earthworm Jim 1 + 2
Earthworm Jim 3D
Evolva
F/A-18E Super Hornet
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Freespace + Expansion
Freespace 2
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Invictus: In the Shadow of Olympus
Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business
Kingdom: The Far Reaches
Kingpin: Life of Crime
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
M.A.X. + M.A.X. 2
MDK
MDK 2
Messiah
Redneck Rampage Collection
Sacrifice
Screamer
Shattered Steel
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Stonekeep
VR Soccer '96
They all only cost 3 dollars.
Sacrifice is great. It's sort of a strategy-rpg but not like Warcraft and Spellforce where you play an rts and some units can level up, but you play an individual with spells and whatnot and you can summon and resurrect an army. It's hard to explain and I don't know anything to compare it to, but it was pretty cool.
Fallout Tactics is sort of a Jagged Alliance for wusses. It's not an rpg like the Fallout 1 and 2. I found it to be pretty good, but I haven't finished it.
MDK2 is an alright action adventure platformer. Zany characters. Don't know how well it has aged.
Earthworm Jim is a pretty difficult 2d jump'n'run with a really crazy sense of humor. If you have an xbox you might want to have a look at the HD remake on xbla instead. It's more or less the same game but a) you can turn down the difficulty, b) graphics are in HD (though true to the original) and c) it has some additional stuff like special coop maps and I assume achievements. Earthworm Jim 2 isn't as good as #1 but it's still alright. Earthworm Jim 3d probably shouldn't have been made in the first place, but since Rayman, Zelda and Mario all made the jump to 3d... Didn't work out as well for Jim.
Freespace 2 is probably the definitive space combat "sim". Mostly because there is nothing newer around that gets close to it. Haven't finished it because it wasn't my kind of game, but I recognize its greatness.
Now, what I want to know, and have wanted to know for a while, how are the Descent games? A nostalgia-free evaluation would be great, if possible. I don't mind old graphics, but I've never played one of them so the gameplay should work today too. Opinions?
And what's Die By The Sword like?