OK, So I remeber how I loved this game when I was a kid, and today I stumble upon the back ups of my old saved games. I decide to give this game a go again and try to get a copy. I don't want to get the game from an abandonware site, since these sometimes lack stuff like music, movies etc... And I do want to have the completely full game
I have no luck on ebay, and then come across this. $ 9.99, not too expensive, and most importantly, 240MB. So it has to be a full game, right? To my dismay, after paying and downloading, I see it is actually only around 30 MB, and 200+ MB is taken by some strange file settlers2.gog.
And, there are no movies. The only movie I see is the intro and I just find it strange that after completing the last Roman chapter there is just the picture of the ship and nothing else.
So my question is:
(1) Is this actually the full game (i.e. are there really no movies other than the intro?)
(2) What's the huge .gog file for?
By the way, great site. I'm considering downloading a few of other games which I played long ago and don't have a copy any more, but I would appreciate it if the description does say whether the game is full or not.
Thanks.

All games on gog.com are the full version, patched to the latest official version. The specific forums for the game(s) do have suggestions for mods, and "level/map creators" if applicable.
Most games come with a variety of extras - music, avatars for forums related to the game, maps, etc.
From what I can tell, (from the few I've played through completely, and had videos), the games have all the videos and music off the CD/DVD versions "ripped" and included in the installer and will be loaded when needed at the appropriate gameplay point.

GOG always sells the full games in all of their registered glory. Some games may have been edited for best functionality on modern operating systems so the directory contents of the installed games might not be 1:1 to their original versions -- but when you actually play the game, the contents are all there (with whatever extras we might get :)
Usually with GOG games it's the original CD in .bin CD-image format. Its counterpart .cue file should somewhere there as well, but I'm currently on my Mac with no GOG games downloaded and the connection here is kinda terrible so I can't really check.

Thanks for confirming.
Kind of disappointing though that there is no ending after completing all the 10 Roman chapeters.

Yup, it's a bin/cue file pair, only with different extensions. The corresponding .cue file is called settlers2.inst.
There is a data track on the image, but I can't see what's in it. Most of the space is taken up by the 8 audio tracks for the background music.

I have no idea if there were any other additional movies when the game was originally released - if there were the GoG version will contain them all and the fact that the first film plays through suggests that there should be no problem with the other films playing.
However its important to note that as the computer world advances some older video codecs are lost - windows removes support from them or they lose the license ot supply it and thus some games on GoG do have "missing" video content. The content is there its just that the computer can't play it and whilst GoG do their best to supply each game in full working order some of the codecs do require licence fees/subscription fees which would increase the cost of GoG games (some by quite a significant amount).

The Settlers II is a DOS game, and the GOG.com version ran under DOSbox emulation. Whatever is the codec being used the decoder is provided by the game itself. To my knowledge the only video is the intro video. Nothing missing, and due to DOS nature nothing to do with Windows codecs.

I own the CD from the old days :) so I can write something in this topic.
The only "movie" in the game is the intro. It is a 15.3 MB file called intro.smk, and there are no other smk files. Smacker Video Technology is an early version of what we know today as Bink Video, and it was quire common in the time when the game was originally released.

Thank you for confirming it! That "settles" it then...