Fury3 (1995)
Genres:Shooter, Simulator
Themes:Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:Who says you can't save the world? In Microsoft® Fury³, you have to save eight of them―from the sweltering heat of a tropical world to a toxic chemical wasteland. And with targets above, below, and on each planet's surface, you'll see why it's fury―to the third power.
Vote to bring this game to GOG and help preserve it.233
Fury3 is a great candidate not only for GOG preservation but also a graphical remaster. I always thought it would be cool to have the original game mechanics with flashy modern graphics, laser beams and explosions and debris flying everywhere. I've been playing this game since I was a lad, long before I knew how important it was for selling Windows 95 as a gaming platform. I've also never had an, ahem, bonafide copy, so I'd feel good adding it to my GOG library.
Through a 'bona fide' abandonware site, partners with GOG to remove these if they're renewed, I had found a few years ago this is what became of 'Terminal Velocity' after Terminal Reality traded this with Microsoft: A real gem, and could use a remake, enhancement, but does well as a successor to previous TR games for it's time: I would love to see this renewed and enhanced here as well!
Fury3 is one of my all-time favorite games! I played the demo version on Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and NT4 in order to test system builds and upgrades in the PC shop I worked at during the 90s, especially the Win32s layer that allowed some 32bit software like Fury3 to run in 16bit Windows 3.1, which many customers were still using at the time. I continued to enjoy playing the demo at home for years after that, both from notalgia for that great job and from genuine enjoyment of the game itself. There have been prettier games with more engaging stories and such, both before and after, but nothing I've ever tried beats the sensation of three-dimensional freedom of movement I've experienced particularly in Fury3 (though others from the Amiga days came close). When box copies went on deep discount in the early 2000s, I finally got the full version and was so excited to have more levels/environments to fly around in. I've managed to keep this game around through three decades of OS and parts upgrades/rebuilds on my own computer and still play it today on modern hardware in Window 11. Total aerobatic flying freedom with tons of relentless and incredibly evasive robotic enemies to match manuevers with and shoot down -- perfect for an impromptu stress-relief break! Like a freeform rollercoaster, but with target practice! I have saves set up at the beginning of each level so I can teleport to whichever level strikes my fancy on a given day. Planets "Sebek" and "Terran" have my favorite levels. I was so glad to experience Fury3's predecessor, Terminal Velocity, through GOG's efforts, and the successor, Hellbender (Gillian Anderson voices the flight computer, E.V.E.!), would be another great candidate for preservation! But Fury3 gets my first Dreamlist vote (GOG recently made LEGO City Undercover available or I'd be voting for that one, too). Glad to see I'm not alone in my happy memories of Fury3. I hope GOG selects it so many more fans can discover or reconnect with this gem!
I remember playing a demo version back in the days. Endlessly flying around in some kind of desert until I had to fight a giant cobra (...? I hope my memory doesn't trick me) as the final boss. It was pretty simple, straightforward, a little boring maybe at times, but fun though. I don't exactly know why, but I found it somewhat fascinating, to the degree of me falling in love with it, without ever having played the full version. Been waiting for ages for gog to publish it. Hopefully some day.
I remember this as a demo on our family PC, the idea of an open world esque flight sim shooter on a planet blew my mind, when I'd only played Wing Commander before. it felt cool blasting waves of enemies, then flying INTO bases to take on giant bosses. I always wanted the full game, but never managed to get it.
Digimon WorldDigimon world is a game that allows a player to raise their own Digimon and teach it to battle.Our Pick Top Trending Fantasy Science fiction
Black & WhitePlay the role of a deity in a land where the surroundings are yours to shape and its people are yours to lord over. Be an evil, malevolent god and the natives will worship you with fear in their eyes. Play as a kind, benevolent god and they will worship you with love in their hearts. Your actions decide whether you create a heaven or hell for your worshipers. Then select a creature from the land to act as your representative in the world. Raise it to gigantic proportions and teach it to do your bidding--whether the animal grows into an evil colossus of mass destruction or a kind and gentle giant is up to you. Progress through the game's rich storyline performing powerful miracles to battle other deities and become the world's supreme god.Top Trending Open world Sandbox
FreelancerEight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival.
Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems for their own. Survival and propagation eventually led to growth and profit as each of the colonies developed specialties and fostered commerce. As the colonies grew and time passed their connections with their roots on Earth dwindled and they lost their memories of the conflicts of the past. Soon their attention was dominated by new, more immediate conflicts. Feelings of lost ancestral connection spurred anachronism in the look of the great cities, and created a somewhat distorted image of each colony's cultural heritage. In the ever-expanding outer edge of the territories, frontier lawlessness prevailed.
The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo.
As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity.
Today, with each colony firmly rooted in its respective corner of the galaxy, the colonies rely heavily on each other for trade and industry but also compete for resources and new territories in the Border Worlds. The colonies mandate member governments in "The New Alliance" within the Sirius sector. To control conflicts, each colony has forged alliances and treaties with others as they have grown. Competition remains fierce, however. Struggles rage for supremacy in business, commerce, resources, power and control. There can be tenuous peace between colonies' political agendas, but the grabs for holdings constantly unsettle the volatile frontier.Our Pick Top Trending Science fiction Sandbox
Black & White 2In the game, the player takes the role of a god called from the void (nothingness) to help those who invoked them. However, the player is not an omnipotent style god, but rather a god who rises and falls with his believers and the player must help develop their nature according to their good or evil desires. The player also has a creature, their physical representation in the world, which takes the form of an anthropomorphic ape, lion, wolf, turtle, cow, or tiger. Its physical manifestation can grow to an immense size, and adopt a good or evil persona separate of the player's. They develop their character as the player rewards or punishes their actions. In addition to the god simulation and city-building elements introduced in the original Black & White, Black & White 2 also features elements of real-time strategy gameplay, with the addition of controllable warfare and fighting units.Top Trending Action Fantasy Comedy Sandbox
Max PayneMax Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge, fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard.
The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter, Max Payne introduced the concept of Bullet Time in videogames. Through its stylish slow-motion gunplay combined with a dark and twisted story, Max Payne redefined the action-shooter genre.Top Trending Action Thriller
The Operative: No One Lives ForeverNo One Lives Forever is to be a fast-paced, story-driven first-person shooter that delivers over-the-top action, outrageous villains, and wry humor in the tradition of the great 1960's Bond films. You play Cate Archer an undercover operative for MI-Zero. Your mission is to arrange for the defection of a prominent East German biophysicist that goes by the name of Otto Dentz. However things go wrong when a terrorist group known as the HARM abducts Dentz during a flight to England.
Assume the role of Cate Archer, an operative working for UNITY, a secret organization fighting to free the world from the clutches of H.A.R.M.. From tense subterfuge to in-your-face combat, No One Lives Forever ups the ante with 1960's-influenced spy action, vivid international locates, and deadly arch villains.Top Action Comedy Stealth
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s WayA year after the first No One Lives Forever, tensions are rising between United States and Soviet Union over the tiny, but strategic Isle of Khios. Jones, now the sole Commander of U.N.I.T.Y. (after Smithy was discovered to be a H.A.R.M. spy in the first No One Lives Forever), is taking a vacation and leaves Temporary Director Lawrie in charge.
The sequel to the award-winning No One Lives Forever returns you to a world of espionage, intrigue, and dry humor. In her second adventure, British UNITY operative Cate Archer must investigate a super-secret Soviet project that, if successful, could bring about the third world war.Top Action Fantasy Historical Comedy Stealth
Resident Evil Code: Veronica XExperience another terrifying chapter in the Resident Evil series with Resident Evil: Code Veronica X. After narrowly surviving the horrific onslaught in Raccoon City, Claire Redfield now seeks clues in search of her missing brother, Chris. Join Claire as she uncovers the insidious activities of the Umbrella Corporation. Avoid or eliminate flesh-eating zombies and horrific beasts. Use a variety weapons, items, and clues scattered around Raccoon City to help you survive the nightmare and make sure the virus doesn't spread any farther.Top Trending Action Horror Survival
PreyPrey tells the story of Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic stuck on a reservation going nowhere. Abducted along with his people to a menacing mothership orbiting Earth, he sets out to save himself and his girlfriend and eventually his planet.Our Pick Top Action Science fiction
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max PayneMax Payne 2 is a third-person shooter, in which the player assumes the role of Max Payne, but also plays as Mona Sax in a few levels. Initially, the player's weapon is a 9mm pistol. As they progress, players access other weapons including other handguns, shotguns, submachine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and hand-thrown weapons. To move the game along, the player is told what the next objective is through Max's internal monologue, in which Max iterates what his next steps should be.Top Action Thriller