Comments on: Take No Prisoners Strategy Pack, PC – £7.84

By: Wrigley

Wrigley — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:41:20 +0000

In reply to Bob. Whole pack is about 16 GB worth of games :-) Download is running smoothly and takes around 12 hours to complete with supervision (you must manualy start each one of them - I didn´t tried running them simultaneously since you have got one shot). File sizes are from 30MB (Strategic command I) to 4GB (Darkstar One) most are about 500MB. Download links are sent to you by email separately and so you will get about 20 emails, be careful thou because one of those emails ended in my spam while all others were recieved normaly. Games seems to be working.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:24:05 +0000

In reply to Paul Moloney. yes any one who has got, please let us know if registerable on steam. A few of those (port royale 2, sacred gold, darkstar one, Space Empires IV Deluxe, jagged alliance 2 gold, Disciples II) are on steam.

By: Alex Palmer

Alex Palmer — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:03:05 +0000

In reply to Lewie Procter. Derp. Always miss the obvious things. Thanks!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:34:48 +0000

Man, I thought this was some fancy version of the ACTUAL Take No Prisoners game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_No_Prisoners_%28video_game%29

By: Navagon

Navagon — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:10:19 +0000

Strategy First is dodgy in ways that make the Hut Group look like saints. The fact that you have to pay to redownload makes this collection rather appropriately rental priced. But then none of these games are ones you’re going to be completing overnight. So it’s a tough call as to whether it’s worth it or not. It would be an absolute bargain if it wasn’t for where you’d be buying it from.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:59:39 +0000

Anyone got any idea what the file sizes are?

By: Jp1138

Jp1138 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:44:48 +0000

There some classic games there: Jaaged Alliance 2, the Combat Mission games, Space Empires… I just bought it using the cupon. You get 18 emails each one containing a download link. Too bad it seems you cannot re-download them later. I´ll have to make some backups,I suppose 😉

By: Valzi

Valzi — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:52:01 +0000

Several well-recognized classics here. Just type titles in Google if you don’t recognize them.

By: Lewie Procter

Lewie Procter — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:47:44 +0000

In reply to Alex Palmer. With the coupon?

By: Alex Palmer

Alex Palmer — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:46:41 +0000

It’s showing up as £54.89 over here — am I missing something, or did the deal expire?

It looks like the games are downloadable once unless you purchase their “warranty” for a few pounds extra.

Can’t speak for any DRM that might be used.

By: Imperial Creed

Imperial Creed — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:40:53 +0000

Might be worth mentioning in the main post that Strategy First are one of the few digital distributors still trying to charge to redownload your games with their “Download Warranty” BS.

By: Fede

Fede — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:34:04 +0000

Port Royale and Patrician 3 are basically nice trade sims.
Disciples 2 is a nice strategy game, but the hasn’t aged well, imo.
Jagged Alliance 2 is a turn based combat game, like the old X-Coms.

If you don’t have any they should be worth at least 8£ of fun.

By: Joe Hall

Joe Hall — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:58:30 +0000

In reply to Paul Moloney. Anyone know if the games are any good even?

By: Patrick Rose

Patrick Rose — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:38:13 +0000

I don’t know many of these, can anyone give me a good reason for any of them? Just the one is enough (£8 for one game is a good deal, the rest are bonuses)

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:35:33 +0000

Interesting company:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_First

Anyone know the DRM used here, or if any games are registerable on Steam?

Cheers,