Way back in the day 3DO attempted to disrupt the market with expensive, high-quality, CD-ROM games featuring real actors. A lot of the games weren’t that great, but they were chock full of full-motion video sequences that really wowed a lot of people back then since most other games were reliant on 256-color, 16-bit graphics that paled in comparison. Some such games included games like Mad Dog McCree, Crime Patrol and Studio 3DO’s Killing Time.
Well, GOG.com is digging deep into the pockets of nostalgia and reviving some of 3DO’s classic games for today’s generation of PC gamers, which includes the recent re-release of Killing Time, Requiem: Avenging Angel and the Uprising games.
Over on the GOG page they announced that four games from Ziggurat and 3DO have been added to the catalog.
Killing Time is a horror-FMV game where you journey through a cursed mansion to help ghostly apparitions solve the mysteries of their fate.
The game offered more dimensional degrees of freedom than past iterations of FPS titles that were out at the time, such as DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D, but it still wasn’t quite on Duke Nukem 3D or Goldeneye 64’s level.
The visuals were pretty fuzzy and the gameplay stilted, but if you wanted to take a trip down memory lane you can do so by visiting the GOG.com store page for more info.
I doubt this game will appear on Steam anytime soon since Valve has been culling FMV titles from its library.
Another title to make the cut on GOG.com is Cyclone Studios’ Requiem: Avenging Angel. I only barely remember this title from back in the day. 1999 was chock full of awesome FPS games and Redline was more of my jam so I completely skipped over Requiem.
Anyway, the game is one of the higher quality FPS titles of the time following in the footsteps of Quake II and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division.
It didn’t really break any ground but you can check it out for yourself over on the GOG.com store page where it’s currently available for $9.99.
The last two games to make the cut are Uprising and Uprising 2.
The games were a mixture of strategy-based gameplay and first-person warfare.
Both games are available on the GOG.com storefront for $5.99.
I’m not sure why exactly they’re so cheap but they offer both single-player and multiplayer gameplay.
