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Posted September 27, 2013
Birthday Bullfrog Bonus Bonanza!

GOG.com 5th birthday celebration continues and we have some more gifts for you! This time, it's a nice pack of add-ons to the classic Bullfrog Productions titles in our EA catalog. There's plenty of previously not included content being added as you read this to five prominent Bullfrog games. If you bought them them previously, the updated versions will become available to you shortly. If you don't yet have those memorable classics in your collection, now you have some extra incentive to get them. Let's see what games get the Level-up treatment today, shall we?

Syndicate receives the American Revolt mission pack taking the future corporate executive work to a whole new level of awesome, thus becoming Syndicate Plus. Similarly, the fantasy underworld management game, Dungeon Keeper, becomes Dungeon Keeper Gold, with extra added evil in the form of the Deeper Dungeons expansion. Hidden Worlds have been discovered in the Arabian desert, making Magic Carpet into Magic Carpet Plus. now invites you to the <i>Promised Lands</i> filled with new challenges, and [url=http://www.gog.com/game/populous_the_beginning]Populous: The Beginning has yet some Undiscovered Worlds in store for you.

That's it! Five excellent, content-filled expansions await you in our classic Bullfrog titles. Again, if you bought any of these titles previously, you should now have access to the newly extended version without any additional fee. Have fun!
Posted September 27, 2013
Great news. Thanks EA and GOG!
Posted September 27, 2013
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Optimaximal: I still wish you'd swap the horrible Syndicate box art for the (much superior) one us Europeans know and love...
That art looks familiar, I'm pretty sure we had the same cover in Australia as well.
Posted September 27, 2013
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BlueKronos: I concur with both of you. I think the DOS mode looks much better for many of those era games. I liken it to console hardware, in a console life cycle the developers get to know how to best make use of it at the end of a console's lifetime sometimes making the older versions look better than the next gen console version if released for more than one. I think the same holds true here, at the end of the DOS era developers knew how to get the most out of what they had to work with, whereas the D3D was just in it's infancy. Yes D3D has more potential bells and whistles but that doesn't mean that a game with D3D early in it's life cycle makes use of those or not without sacrificing something else.
So very true, and well stated. The same applies to earlier computers - there was very little change in hardware over the years, but people got better and better at squeezing things out of it. Looks at the difference in Amiga games between the early days and the final days and you'll scarcely believe it's the same system running both. In the same way the DOS programmers added to their arsenal of tricks until the titles in the mature DOS period were simply amazing.
Posted September 27, 2013
Absolutely amazing! Thanks GOG!

Even though I'm not happy with EA's newer games using Origin, or the unfaithful remakes like Syndicate, I still have to give you a big thanks for allowing your classics to be sold DRM free and now adding the additional content to those games.
Posted September 27, 2013
This is fantastic, especially given that the main complaint with Syndicate here was the lack of expansion pack. I doubt I'm going to reboot Populus, but the rest I have yet to get in depth with, so this is a fantastic start! Expansions make everything better :)
Posted September 27, 2013
Thanks!

Next up... Hi-Octane? Please?
Posted September 27, 2013
Boo-fucking-YA YA YA YA YA! :D

It has finally happened!

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Optimaximal: I still wish you'd swap the horrible Syndicate box art for the (much superior) one us Europeans know and love...
I couldn't help but chuckle at how haughty this sounds to me. Euro-master race! ;)
Post edited September 27, 2013 by tfishell
Posted September 27, 2013
Great news, thanks EA and GOG.

Next the C&C series and their add-ons?
Posted September 27, 2013
Excellent! The expansions are much appreciated!

Thanks GOG and EA!
Posted September 27, 2013
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HertogJan: Great news, thanks EA and GOG.

Next the C&C series and their add-ons?
I'd like to see them here but I'm not holding my breath. It's one of EA big franchise and I think they'd prefer releasing them themselves like they did with The First Decade. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Posted September 27, 2013
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justanoldgamer: I'd like to see them here but I'm not holding my breath. It's one of EA big franchise and I think they'd prefer releasing them themselves like they did with The First Decade. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Not so big anymore after C&C 3+4 and RA3.
Posted September 27, 2013
Excellent news, thanks! Buy please put it as "updated" in the collection. Unless something didn't work they aren't marked as updated on my collection.
Posted September 27, 2013
I knew it! It would have been strange to just get the Syndicate expansion by itself. Thanks, GOG, for renegotiating the available content for EA games. As a matter of fact I don't think I've played the content of any of these. Definitely looking forward to giving Deeper Dungeons, Hidden Worlds, and Undiscovered Worlds a go (eventually).

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metalslug1990: I'd love to Theme Park added to GoG :)
Don't we all? I also wouldn't mind seeing Theme Park World... and Hi-Octane... and Genewars. Never been too keen on Powermonger, but for the sake of others we might as well complete the Bullfrog catalog. I'm fairly sure (and really hoping) that all of those will show up here in due time.
Posted September 27, 2013
Since some of the expansions are in the wishlist, it'd be nice if somebody could mark those as "completed".
Posted September 27, 2013
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GOG.com: Birthday Bullfrog Bonus Bonanza!

GOG.com 5th birthday celebration continues and we have some more gifts for you! This time, it's a nice pack of add-ons to the classic Bullfrog Productions titles in our EA catalog. There's plenty of previously not included content being added as you read this to five prominent Bullfrog games.
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many many thanks GOG!!!!
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