GOG is made of win. Fact.

Very nice, though it would have made more sense to bundle Betrayal at Krondor with its sequel Return to Krondor, but let's not quibble.

Betrayal at Antara should please all but the most rigid fans of Feist's first game adaptation. It uses the same engine, with a few tweaks here and there (SVGA vs. VGA graphics, a hexagonal combat grid vs. BaK's square one, etc.), has a vast geography to explore, plenty of side quests to divert one's attention from the main storyline (which itself doesn't deviate much from the typical FRPG fare), lots of digitized speech (I don't remember if it's full speech or if it's partial speech accompanied by text narration and dialogue), and characters that if a bit dorky still are for the most part likeable and sufficient to drive the story forward.

I first played this when it was new, in 1997, on a Pentium 1 (120 MHz) with 16 megabytes of system RAM and a 2d ATI video card that had perhaps 512k video RAM. I had to use the game's option to switch to regular VGA while travelling (it would then revert to SVGA once you stopped or otherwise stood still, and then go back to VGA when you started moving again); the difference between the grainy VGA first-person perspective landscapes and the more crisp SVGA ones is quite evident even if you're paying just partial attention. I completed the game a year or two later, on a Pentium 2 running at 300 MHz, 64 megabytes of system RAM, and a generic 2d AGP card that had 2 or maybe 4 megabytes of video RAM, and on that one I had no trouble travelling about in full SVGA mode. I suspect that this will be the setting on which the vast majority of GOG members play the game.

Thanks to GOG for not only carrying the game but for also including it free with the more famous and perhaps arguably more credible Betrayal at Krondor. It's a pleasant surprise!

Really BAD idea. For many reasons. Not saying gog would abuse it, but there's hardly a security system in use that can't be cracked with enough time and patience.

OT : Nice addition ^_^ Was wondering if anything would appear today, too.

Very nice!
Now I might get it.

nice

can't you release the other two Age of Wonders game today ?

Fantastic thanks for this :)

I was hoping for Baldur's Gate 2 today. :(

I was hoping to see Betrayal at Krondor and Return to Krondor on weekend promo soon.. Well with this add-on counter starts again. Ah.. well mabye I'll buy it at retail price :-)

Same here.

It's a bit too much if you have in mind that in Poland it was released for free wih gaming magazine (years ago, but still).

A very good gift for rpg fans

Hah ! I had wishlisted Betrayal at Krondor, but the addition of Betrayal at Antara with no change of the price wibns the deal.

Plus I've always heard about those games and never had a change to play them. Now I can! ^_^

They could release nothing at all.

Why is it not a new release? It's a whole new game. And a lot of people are getting it for free, while others will now get two games for the price of one.

It's *better* than a simple new release.

Bad for you maybe, but it would be optional.