Product Index - December Games CD
This index lists all the games demos and updates that are featured in this month's CD.
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| Shogo Heretic 2 MechCommander Oddworld: Abe's Exodus World Cup 98 |
Product Index - December Games CD This index lists all the games demos and updates that are featured in this month's CD. |
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| Demo | Description |
| Age of Empires Expansion Pack: The Rise of Rome | Real-time historically based strategy/development game. Highly addictive. |
| Balls of Steel | Pinball with attitude. |
| Descent Freespace: The Great War | Freespace has a superior engine and better mission design than any rival space sim. |
| Heretic 2 | Excellent combination of third-person hack and slash, acrobatic and shooting-style action with spells and magical items. |
| House of the Dead | Kill! Kill! Splatter! Aaaaaaargh! Do not eat before playing this game! |
| Jagged Alliance 2 | Turn-based strategy game involving mercenaries, disgraced national leaders and a healthy dose of sci-fi. |
| Longbow 2 | High-realism helicopter simulation with excellent graphics and the choice of gameplay modes to suit beginners and those experts who understand Cyclic, Directional and Collective controls. |
| Mechcommander | An intense strategy game which is best described as a cross between Warcraft and Syndicate on a Civilization II map. |
| Motoracer 2 | Enough realism to be fun, but not too much. Rev that baby nice n’ hard! |
| Oddworld: Abe's Exodus | Superbly animated platform adventure game. The sequel to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. |
| Railroad Tycoon 2 | A real-time strategy game set in the capitalist delight that was 19th century railroad expansion in the US. |
| Shogo | Shogo is immersive, spectacular and refreshingly different from other shooters. If you’ve ever wanted to be an anime hero, go out and get a copy now! |
| Small Soldiers | A strategy game suitable for kids and the rest of us, based on the film, 'Small Soldiers'. |
| StarCraft | Warcraft in space. |
| Total Annihilation | In spite of its lack of character, Total Annihilation is an entertaining game and a revolutionary gaming system. |
| World Cup 98 | Superbly animated soccer simulation very realistically based on the players, teams, locations and matches of the France 98 World Cup. |
| Updates | Description |
| Descent Freespace: 104 Update | The 1.04 update for full versions of Descent Freespace. |
| Descent Freespace: Server Update | Update to the standalone multiplayer game server. |
| Heretic 2 Unlock | Those who have already downloaded the Heretic II demo will find it locks itself during November 1998. Activision has released this patch to unlock the demo and allow it to be used again. |
| Longbow 2 Display Driver Update | Longbow 2 Display Driver Update. This is an update to allow Longbow 2 to run 3D accelerated on 3D accelerator cards using the following chipsets: Riva 128, Rendition VeritΘ V2100 and V2200, TI/3Dlabs Permedia 2, Intel i740, Matrox G200. The Display Driver upgrade may support other chipsets; however, only the above five have been thoroughly tested. See the ReadMe file for more information. |
| Longbow 2 Version 209 Update | This patch fixes (among other things) known bugs such as the autopilot occasionally disengaging and hat issues with some joysticks, and includes a filter to remove some harsh language in the game. This patch also includes support to play Longbow 2 on Jane's Combat.Net. See the readme file for details. |
| Longbow Gold 3Dfx Update | This patch provides 3Dfx (Glide) support for Longbow Gold only. It supports based on Voodoo, Voodoo Rush and Voodoo2 only. Caution: Installation of this patch permanently modifies Longbow Gold Graphics. It cannot be uninstalled. To revert to the original Longbow Gold, you must completely uninstall then reinstall Longbow Gold. |
| Mechcommander 1.8 Update | This file updates MechCommander to Version 1.8, fixes problems with low-end machines, enables Internet Gaming Zone play and allows Z: to be mapped as the MechCommander CD. |
| Shogo 1.1a Patch | The 1.1 Shogo Alpha patch greatly improves Shogo Internet multiplayer play both over modems and other Internet connections, such as cable modem, ISDN or T1 lines. The Alpha patch also improves the Shogo AI and offers other fixes and improvements over Shogo 1.0 , while the Unpatch utility allows the patch to be uninstalled if any problems are caused. |
| StarCraft 1.03 Update | This file updates the full version of StarCraft from any version to 1.03, with numerous bug fixes and enhancements. |
| Total Annihilation | Updates any full version of TA to 3.1 with numerous enhancements. |
⌐ Australian Consolidated Press 1998