Syndicate Wars™

Period. This is one of the most awesome strategic games you can ever play. I still have this as a boxed game and could not get to play it, even on dosbox, with an accurate emulation speed. The premise is simple; you control 4 agents who have a plethora of gradually more technologically advanced gadgets and weapons at their disposal - you get to wreak havoc on a nuclear scale with weapons such as 'cataclysm' (a sort of mini nuclear bomb), laser pistols, time bombs, persuadertrons (you use these to *influence* bystanders to join your cause, and if you leave enough weapons on the field for them to pick up, they arm themselves with them and turn into expendable killing machines, raising an army of hostile citizens in the process), barbed wire, et cetera. This game is one hell of a definite must have!

First things first: You're comments are wrong in multiple points. One on the things to consider is, the game is very well capable of SVGA graphics and DosBox also supports it. In order to enable it you may have to edit the doxbox.conf file. However, the reason it defaults to VGA graphics instead of SVGA (Super VGA) is a simple one: The game is simply unplayable slow when emulated in SVGA mode. Even on a modern 4-core with 3.2 GHz and powerful graphic card the game only runs with 5 fps in SVGA mode, making it completely impossible to play. The reason for this is, that the game has to be emulated by the CPU and the CPU has to render everything. There is no usage of modern graphic cards etc. When ingame and the mail selection menu, you simply go to System > Visual Depth and change resolution to 640x480 pixel. But as I said it is unplayable. To the game: The game back then was top and it was really fun, especially once you get the nuke grenades and blow up half the city or robbing banks to fund your syndicate

5 Lives Studios is making a true successor to the original series, its called 'Satellite Reign'.... due for release on steam greenlight on the 11th Dec 2014

I sank many hours into this game as a teenager, and really introduced me to Peter Molyneux and subsequent Bullfrog games, I've been waiting patiently and eagerly for this moment since I joined GOG.

A truly amazing game for it's time. I remember how the landscape could alter with explosions, etc, similar to Magic Carpet. And I remember finding that so amazing. Unfortunately, my PC was always too slow to run it... when I finally got a fast one it was too fast. That was the story with many PC Bullfrog titles (never had that problem with Amiga). Still, this one is among the ones I've been waiting for gog to release. Will definitely rebuy it here sometime. Can't wait to actually play it again.