![]() Few games even seem to attempt this kind of anti-interface now, and that's a shame. The game has not aged well technically - the highest res is, I think, 1024x768, and it now looks crude, although it still boasts a certain minimalist sheen, and a beautiful toned-down aesthetic. I've spoken at length about the original game in the past, and you can check out my retrospective from eighteen months ago just here. I suspect a few of you will have something to say about all those games, but Ground Control was a particular love of mine, and I wanted to say a few things about the GoG bundle, and why it might actually still be worth a few dollars. Rebellion - the chaps who are making the new AvP game - now own Evil Genius, Ground Control, Empire Earth and Lords Of The Realm, and they're distributing them via that aforementioned digital download service. Of course with Vivendi disappearing into the ActiBlizzard merger there's all kinds of funny things going on with the ownership of their games, their distribution and so on. It's interesting to see the game up there for a number of reasons, not least because the original game was actually freely distributed by Vivendi for quite some time. Quite a few people sent in comments about classic, resource-free, 3D real time strategy Ground Control being on GoG.com. ![]() Update: cheaper Ground Control bundle here, but only for Britons.
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