I bought this a while ago, and it was 32 bit! Now it is 64 and REQUIRES windows 10?! Because of this destruction of classic games, I will not EVER support their game corruption program, and neither should anybody else.
I bought these LONG ago, and love them. Recently saw the "update" and thought, nice. Maybe they fixed the bugs. NOPE. Hey GOG, there is a difference between "Compatible" and "REQUIRED'. Forcing a dos game to require windows 10 to run is straight BS. Especially for those of us who REFUSE to downgrade our OS past windows 7. You should rename it to "GAME CORRUPTION PROGRAM". Now that I know you are doing this, I will no longer buy ANY game labeled this way. I have 2 computers, one with XP and is my main gaming PC, and my laptop with 7. BTW everyone, I have tweaked my XP computer so at Idle it uses only 90 mb memory, so the pre downgraded version of these games runs absolutely flawlessly.
I know a lot of people complain about this game. And yes, they do make valid points. The difficulty is way too high, it DOES punish you for picking up items, and the waves of enemies are SERIOUS, hence the title. However, once you get used to the intense action of the game, you can see the good points too. Great music and graphics for its time, LOTS of humor, and sam is a way better protagonist than duke nukem. My only concern with this game would be anybody trying to play it with a heart condition. There is suddenly heart pounding action constantly. Been playing this and the sequel for many years, and it still frequently startles me. As a suggestion for anybody new to the game, set the difficulty in game to the lowest. Health will slowly Regen, and it takes a lot of the bite out of monster damage. Good for getting used to the seriously unfair monster wave ambushes. I also think there is an unofficial patch that adds controller support, but not sure as I am good with a keyboard mouse combo. (Veteran mordor and demise player)
First off, this the UN-PATCHED V1 same as the original CD. (Which I also own). So it does still have the deep one research bug. If you don't know about that, not hard to find out. Anyway, if you go into the game folder after the install and modify the dosbox config file, and set the display mode to "ddraw" and the memory size to either 64 or 128, it should work as good as it was intended, just like my dad's old 486/66 with dos 6.22. brings back memories. Anyway, the display mode default makes screens blur with random colors, and this is how I fixed it. Enjoy!
I bought this because I remembered playing a demo years ago. Started it up, played about halfway through the tutorial and had to shut it off to sleep. Booted it back up, and now asks me for a CD KEY! Guess I will need to find a pirated key just to play a game I PURCHASED. Thanks for failing again GOG...
This game is a perfect example of why I hate newer versions of windows. This one says it requires windows 10! F that. My original runs on XP, with FAR less resources needed. I'll stick with my disks instead. (Well, that and every windows past 7 stealing everything you own and do and sending it to microsoft.)
This is listed as and installs with the "Ufo Defense" icon, but that is NOT what this is. It is actually "Enemy Unknown". "UD" is the buggy CD version which I still own, and "EU" is the original extremely buggy FLOPPY DISK VERSION. I purchased this hoping I wouldn't have to go through the drive mounting and and other tedious steps to get my cd version working in dosbox, and needless to say, I was disappointed. Not a good move GOG. If you were selling this version, you should have said so.
As the title says, I've played this game a lot when I was a kid. (My original disk was stolen) So when I saw it not only here but on sale, I snapped it up quick. Needless to say, I am VERY disappointed. Runs great on my PC except for 1 enormous problem. THE COPY PROTECTION IS STILL ACTIVE! Until this issue is resolved, I cannot give a higher rating for a otherwise fantastic game. GOG dropped the ball on this one. So far I have over 50 games in my library, and this is the only one with this issue. BTW, I know it is the CP causing the problems because if I try to run any configuration changes, it asks for the CD! And then I can either choose to ignore it, or exit. Both close it. Not to mention after about 5 or so minutes once the game starts running it will immediately notice no cd and crash to the desktop. Once GOG fixes this issue, will change my review accordingly.
Was going to buy this, but after reading about it from others, I'll stick with my old dosbox original instead. I REFUSE to buy a game that has built in ads. To me, that defeats the purpose of buying a game in the first place. And that is one of the many reasons I canceled my steam account, and came to GOG, to avoid that type of malicious adware, and steam's built in malware.
