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The Cold War had nothing to do with snowballs!

Spycraft: The Great Game, an original cold war adventure game with puzzle and simulation elements, is now available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

So, you want to know the details? You don't have the proper clearance, but I suppose it doesn't really matter anymore. Back in the day, I would have to "silence" you, even with the little knowledge you already have. Nothing personal, of course--just the usual procedure. There's just too much at stake here, you see? No, I don't just mean national security. I'm referring to global safety. This went way beyond CIA, KGB, and their little games. Or, should I rather say: our great game. They had the bomb, we had the bomb. Then someone shot one of their most prominent politicians. Things became tense and crisis escalated. You're a reporter, you're familiar with the term "MAD", right? Yes, Mutual Assured Destruction. The assurance was supposed to prevent the war, you know. But there were some people on both sides who liked to push buttons a little bit too much. Here's the story of how we almost evaporated the mankind from the face of the Earth.

Spycraft: The Great Game is an adventure game that puts you in the shoes of a rookie CIA agent involved in a conspiracy much greater than he could ever imagine. The game creates an disturbingly believable image of the cold war thanks to the substantial input from actual ex-heads of CIA and KGB. Spycraft's original gameplay combines classic adventure, investigative fiction, and puzzles that form an authentic experience of a cold-war spy struggle. The multitude of FMV cinematics brings even more flare to this ambitious title, that no adventure fan or conspiracy hunter can afford to miss!

Become a CIA agent and prevent two nations' mutual nuclear destruction in Spycraft: The Great Game, for only $5.99 (that's almost nothing compared to the actual CIA budget!).
Lol, the developers sure had GREAT balls when they decided on the title.
Awesome addition to the catalog!
Fantastic release, bought this game when it was released back in 1996 and still have the boxed copy, very immersive and absorbing game and way ahead of it's time.

These are the kind of games i love to see on GOG, Ripper and Black Dahlia next please :)
Post edited October 02, 2012 by Neilk40
Oh I read oabpout this one on a PC Gamer Crapshoot a while ago
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/23/saturday-crapshoot-spycraft-the-great-game/
IIRC Richard didn't hate it which is unusual for him...
I've seen this game around for years but never really bought it. Too much of a wuss.

Well, I've got it wishlisted for now!
Lol, I read StarCraft and thought it was the original.
Great release.
Looks interesting.
Ah!!! Great! I was looking for this just the other day, great you've added it! Will get it soon!
OMG, I love you guys!!!

I just wrote a blog post about this game recently as it was one of my favorite games when it was released. It's been long unavailable - LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU (although unfortunately I have to wishlist it for the next few weeks as I can't buy one more game until I've finished at least a few in my massive backlog :)

Awesome addition to GOG, though. A truly fun game.
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bmxjouster: I'd never even heard of this game until I read about it earlier this year in PC Gamer's weekly "Saturday Crapshoot" series.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/23/saturday-crapshoot-spycraft-the-great-game/

I'm glad to see GOG picked this one up. I kind of wanted to try this one out.
Thanks for posting that ^...this looks like an interesting game to me. Definitely has some content at 1.3G for a 1996 release. Must be a bit of video, which is cool. Definitely wishlisted for now...way too many games in the backlog. Thanks for releasing this GOG
Based on the name, my first thought was: Oh no, another Minecraft clone :(
After I browsed through the images my second thought was: Oh no, no blocks to remove or place :(

Bought anyway ;)
really excited about this!
Still have the boxed copy!

I remember it was an amazing game at the time, very different.
You get lots of neat 'toys' to play with, most quite simple, but each very unique.
I vaguely remember this coming out and intriguing me.
A nice slightly obscure addition to the ranks.
Great news. Any idea why it's not the DVD version? It had WAY better video quality but being one of the first DVD games using MPEG2 vidoes it is a real pain getting it to work :(