This bundle is telling me the price of $8.19 AUD at a 73% discount to complete the collection. I already have every game in the bundle except Rayman Origins which is currently $4.49 AUD at a 70% discount. Better to buy the game that is missing and claim the bundle for $0 afterwards. As for the games themselves, the Rayman games are tough platformers. I have not played these PC versions so cannot speak to their quality, but they're fun if you can look past their age. Rayman Raving Rabbits is a funny party game that was originally a launch title for the Wii.
It looks like a cute little game, and it's cheap enough that I figured I'd give it a go. However, I had to spend half an hour or so getting it to run properly as the mouse cursor was painfully slow and laggy, to the point of being unplayable. It turns out that it uses an old build of Adventure Game Studio (3.4.1.14) that I think has even been built without OpenGL support. The included configuration file is set to use the D3D9 driver for some reason. There are also failures related to the "linear" graphics filter that is configured but apparently missing. I ended up building the latest AGS and replacing it with the one included, and then modifying the config to use OGL (for OpenGL) and now it works fine... but it's always disappointing when a native game doesn't work out of the box.
I don't know why, but the product page does not mention the extras that the game comes with. Aside from a couple of avatars, a nice (non-scanned) copy of the manual and three different wallpapers of various resolutions (up to 1920x1200), the game has an upbeat, funky soundtrack that's a pleasure to listen to — if you're into that sort of thing. It consists of 13 tracks in mp3 format using a variable bit rate. This game is often on sale, and when it is, I'd say it's worth getting just for a listen.
Here we have 14 tracks in FLAC and MP3 format. I only cared for the FLAC version, and these were all recorded at 24 bit, stereo, 44.1. kHz (at 531M in total). An album artwork image is also included as a 8,889x8,275 JPEG file. The first 5 tracks rock (with a couple of them also having vocals, including the game opening track), and are certainly the standout tracks for this OST. The following 5 tracks are also pretty good. I think the asking price is worth it just for these 10, especially when on sale. The tracks 11-14 aren't really that interesting to me, as they are too random. There is barely any beat or melody to speak of. If you've played the game, you probably know what I mean. They work great during a turn of gameplay (where you want to focus on what you're doing) but I'm probably not going to listen to those much outside of the game. Still, it's nice that it seems like all tracks were included. Overall, this is an OST that I can recommend.
I used to love this game. I brought it back in the day, and (despite still possessing the CD) brought it again because I never owned the expansion. Almost all my gaming is done under Debian, and sometimes (such as in this case) using WINE. This works great for the original Dark Reign installation, but that requires either CDemu and a TOC rip, or the original CD in the drive for a perfect experience - including the original soundtrack during gameplay (you don't need CDemu just to get it to run though – either manually copying the CD files to wherever D: is configured to look in winecfg, or mounting the image on a loopback device and mounting that somewhere and pointing winecfg to it will suffice). This is due to a basic form of copy protection. As I probably should have expected however, GOG have made a few modifications to the version they sell - they certainly don't force you to download an ISO, burn that and keep it in your drive while playing. Unfortunately, the hack/crack they appear to have used doesn't seem to work at all under WINE - they have basically created two new executables "Dark Reign - Original Game.exe" and "Dark Reign - Expansion.exe" which I simply can't get to execute correctly. DKREIGN.EXE does execute, and can get you to the main game menu, but doesn't let you continue because it can't detect a CD in the drive (just as the original would without the disc). :/ If I put my original Dark Reign disc in the drive, I can play the GOG version fine – for the original campaign only. I even tried just dumping the game disc files and using winecfg to make that D:, and that also worked with the GOG download - and surprisingly I still get audio. There is a "Sounds" sub-directory once installed (which my original version doesn't install) that contains 10 MP3 files - presumably the equivalent of the CD audio tracks one of the original Dark Reign game CDs originally included, and the game must be modified to use them instead. So it *appears* that most users won't miss out on audio when using the current GOG version (or at least not all of it). I'm not sure if there are any other differences from the original at this stage. Ultimately, I brought this game so I could play the expansion (since the original worked so well under WINE), but this is not the real original Dark Reign expansion files as sold back in the day and is basically of no use to me. GOG *should* be offering TOC rips of the original CD in cases such as this, but I have not seen it offered. If you're a GNU/Linux user like me, there's not much point buying this title from GOG at this time.
I missed this when it came out - was still hooked on Descent and the demo didn't appeal to me. However, I recently gave it another look in preparation for Duke Nukem Forever. With the GOG files, the EDuke32 engine (http://www.eduke32.com/) and the High Resolution Pack (http://hrp.duke4.net/) I had a blast. A lot more fun than I was expecting. There is even a port of this game for your N900 if you've brought the map files.
