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FPS Immortals are here.

Quake II: Quad Damage, Quake III: Gold, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny - are available now, DRM-free on GOG.com. You can pick them up at 33% off in two bundles:
<span class="bold">Quake Damage</span> & <span class="bold">Return to Wolfenstein</span>.





Wolfenstein 3D (with Spear of Destiny) is widely considered to be the first true 3D FPS ever. It single handedly kickstarted a generation of id Software greats, and thus influenced just about every FPS we've played ever since. Its mazes, shades of gray, and blue hues are burned into the collective gaming memory - plus you get to kill a mechanized Hitler. Classic.
In the early days of FPS gaming, Quake II: Quad Damage was the milestone. In a spot-on review from 1997, GameSpot calls it "the only first-person shooter to render the original Quake entirely obsolete." It was bigger, better, prettier, and smoother than any clone or predecessor - it also offered one of the most playable, and by far most popular multiplayer experiences of its day.
Quake III: Gold, aka. multiplayer revolution. Despite a controversial removal of the lauded single-player experience the series was known for, Quake III: Arena became a smash-hit and (together with Unreal Tournament) essentially defined arena-style, movement-based competitive gaming for years. The shooter spawned a community that's been living and breathing to this day.
In B.J. Blazkowicz's Return to Castle Wolfenstein, another legend is born. A unique, objective-based multiplayer mode saw immense popularity back in the day - and it was actually pretty okay if you're into that sort of thing. The single-player campaign is a dark, somewhat ridiculous freak show of morbid, scientific fantasy. An ever present sense of dread emanates from the disturbing experiments and cult-like universe, just waiting to be set afire - by you.


As with any Bethesda purchase, you'll also get The Elder Scrolls: Arena & Daggerfall for free!


Prepare to fight in Quake II: Quad Damage, Quake III: Gold, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny - now DRM-free on GOG.com. Return to the FPS immortals at 33% off in two bundles: <span class="bold">Quake Damage</span> & <span class="bold">Return to Wolfenstein</span>. The promo will last for one week, until October 8, 12:59 PM GMT.



The four titles released today are not available for purchase in Germany. These are legal restrictions that are beyond our control, and we're very sorry for the inconvenience.
Good to see these games make their way here.
Will the new game forums for Quake and Wolfenstein be uploaded soon?
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phaolo: (btw I didn't receive any notification for your replies)
As I said above, the forum is playing a truly terrible game of catch-up. So bad, that for half-an-hour, it thought that it was in the previous page. :P
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IronArcturus: [..] The story was changed from interdimensional gates, to fighting an alien war on Stroggos.
Gameplay-wise Quake II is very quick. You get real missions this time, but the player will have to do some backtracking in the levels. In Quake III, it was basically made for multiplayer first, and the “singleplayer” mode is just a bot match.
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phaolo: Thanks to both. +1
I'll wishlist RtCW and think about Q2\3 then.
(btw I didn't receive any notification for your replies)
If you're looking for a game that's similar to Quake 1, you might want to check out Painkiller!
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omega64: It is allowed in film/books though right?
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Gaunathor: Yes, it is. Depicting those symbols in art or for education purposes is allowed. Games, however, are not considered art by the German law.
To make things even more understandable: games are considered as toys from the government point of view.
Nice release. Though forbidden release in Germany is a bit sad :(
Poor our neighbors.
Post edited October 01, 2015 by truhlik
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Post edited October 01, 2015 by shmerl
Wow, those are hilariously overpriced. :P
How is Return to Castle Wolfenstein in Wine? In the past it required some hacks to define old versions of OpenGL in env variables and such.

There used to be native Linux versions for it as well: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/wolf/
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Post edited October 01, 2015 by Fairfox
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Grargar: I guess it's on a case-by-case basis by publisher's request.
The GOG of old would have atleast questioned the publisher's decision, but the way GOG is now they just submit to their every whim similar to the case with regional pricing or just pricing in general for most new releases here. In other words simply following the lead of every other digital distribution store out there.
I asked before, now I ask again: Will there be a release for us Germans too, or are we kicked in the ass today?
Thank you so much!!!
It's great to see more Bethesda/ID releases.

But other than RtCW, those price tags are double what I think is reasonable, especially in USD.
Post edited October 01, 2015 by MikeMaximus
Really nice releases ! (even if the prices are... a little high)
I can't afford even the Wolfenstein bundle for now. so I'll have to wait a bigger discount.

But it's great to finally see these games here :)
And I feel sorry for the germans, as always in this kind of case.