Dungeon Keeper Gold™

Conveniently placed in the "system requirements" section, which nobody who buys a 20+ year old game will read, the store page tells you that by "purchasing" this game, you agree to EA's EULA, which explicitly tells you: "This Software is licensed to you, not sold." ...and places many "interesting" restrictions on you, the user, such as: "Your right to use the Software is limited to the license grant above, and you may not otherwise copy, display, seek to disable, distribute, perform, publish, modify, create works from, or use the Software or any component of it (...)" "When you play this game offline, EA and its affiliates may collect and store non-personally identifiable data including your Internet Protocol Address (...)" "By entering into this Agreement, you and EA expressly waive the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action." Since I do not agree to such ludicrous terms, I wanted to obtain a refund, but after about half a week, GOG basically told me to get lost, because I bought it more than 30 days ago. So now I (do not) "own" a game which I cannot play as I do not agree with its ridiculous license. Apparently DRM is fine with GOG, as long as its legal DRM (EULA), rather than software-based DRM.

I haven't bought the GOG version ~yet. I still have my CD, but a previous reviewer mentioned that GoG's DK was not the Direct X version. Well in this case I don't think that's a bad thing. See, IIRC DK for Direct x was (I think) designed for direct x 3 (or 2?), and one of the neatest things in the game was that possessed minion altered the player's perception of the dungeon with their unique vision. Vampires saw in infrared, flies saw in hexagonal grids, beetles saw in a warped hyperbolic filed of view. All of this was lost with the Direct X version, and I by far preferred the DOS version of DK. I think I've just talked myself into getting it again. GoG's price for a CD-less installer is worth it to me, not have to configure DK for CD-less play.

This game is great. Yes I wish it were "Dungeon Keeper Gold" with Deeper Dungeons and I wish the soundtrack was part of the bundle; but the resolution options are find, they just have to be set. Before you start the game you must run the "Graphic Mode Setup" provided with the game (default under start>programs>gog.com>dungeon keeper.) Once in the game enable hi-res mode by as previously stated all over these reviews and forums, pressing ctrl+r. Here's to hoping they give us the rest some day.

Music and certain speech audio are choppy, and very low resolution graphics...I've played the game before, I know what it should look like. Odds are my system is too fast, which is the cause for the audio issue, but if you advertise compatibility with Windows 7, make sure it's effing compatible with Windows 7...and to think I was about to slay some heroes....

After testing the appalling version EA submitted on the AppStore, I desperately needed the original... Thank you gog.com for this version at a great price... I really missed the 1st person pov.! Great game for a generation who thinks that FarmVille, Tapped Out, and every other darn' freemium game is anything of a good game...