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Fight your way through time or you’re history!

Play a fantastic action-adventure title with a unforgettable plot with today's release of [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/time_commando]Time Commando for only $5.99! An advanced virus has infiltrated a top secret military research facility's supercomputer. The computer can simulate any combat from any period throughout history, but it's such a powerful computer that the virus has created a vortex that threatens to tear a hole in the very fabric of time. Your job is to suit up, travel through time, and prevent the virus from destroying the universe. A good antivirus program could have prevented this threat to the universe, but now that the virus is assaulting the fabric of reality, it has all come down to you.

You are Stanley Opar, a member of S.A.V.E (Special Action for Virus Elimination), an organization that was created to clear the system of the virus. You must travel through many of the historical eras that the supercomputer simulates while using a wide array of weapons (from stones to samurai swords, slings to laser rifles, and a killer yo-yo) to fight through time and collect data bits scattered over the various worlds to repair the damage done.

Time Commando is an action adventure with a little bit of puzzles here and there. Graphically the game was very advanced for the 1990s with beautifully rendered 2D backgrounds coupled with the vivid 3D animated characters. The control scheme takes the best elements out of the Alone in the Dark series and improves upon them.

Grab yourself some action-adventure brawling action for only $5.99!
Post edited January 05, 2012 by Galimatias
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CaptainGyro: What are you talking about? Everybody isn't complaining. Some people don't want it because they don't think it's that great of a release. Not hard to figure out. I personally don't care if it's a "cult classic", because that term can be liberally tossed around anywhere really
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F4LL0UT: . And you're kinda right about the cult classic thing although personally I've mostly encountered this term in connection with stuff that actually IS good despite a lack of commercial success (on GOG there's a lot of this stuff, if you ask me) so I can't say that it can be tossed around anywhere. :P
I'm talking about calling something a cult classic just because it has a relatively small amount of people that enjoy it. That doesn't make it a cult classic to me. It just means it wasn't very popular.
Post edited January 05, 2012 by CaptainGyro
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F4LL0UT: . And you're kinda right about the cult classic thing although personally I've mostly encountered this term in connection with stuff that actually IS good despite a lack of commercial success (on GOG there's a lot of this stuff, if you ask me) so I can't say that it can be tossed around anywhere. :P
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CaptainGyro: I'm talking about calling something a cult classic just because it has a relatively small amount of people that enjoy it. That doesn't make it a cult classic to me. It just means it wasn't very popular.
According to my extensive research (Wikipedia) a cult classic is something that "has had little to no success commercially and critically upon its initial release but has later spawned a small, but devoted and usually obsessive fanbase"

According to that pretty good definition, Time Commando is not by any means a cult classic. I don't think you'll find anyone obsessing over the game.

Having said that I really enjoyed the game on initial release think the game perfectly fits GOG. Although many GOG games are still classics which outshine modern games, Time commando sits in the category of good for their time but mostly of historical interest.
Thank you so much gog!
Sweet! This is another one of those games that was on my "To Play" list, but I never got around to picking it up somewhere. Thank guys!
Made my day when I saw it released...

Must have completed it about 25 times as a kid
I remember I always wanted this game on the Playstation but I could never afford it and later on i forgot the game since so many other amazing games came out. Might have to pick it up now and see what I missed out on
Offtopic: so no weekend promo this week huh?
One of my favorite non-dos games. I still have the cdrom, but i will be picking this up asap. This is what i call a good old game.
Great news! Have many good memories about that game!

One of the most underrated things about this game was definitely the great music by Philippe Vachey at the beginning and end of the game. :-)
Holy polygon hell Batman!
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cymrean: Offtopic: so no weekend promo this week huh?
I was just about to ask this as well

I suppose they are skipping it this week because so many people are burned out from the Christmas sales
I guess but they could have balanced it out with a 75% discount. I bet many people would scrape together 1,5$. :)
Yeh, but they'd have needed a publisher that was willing to let their games be discounted 75%.
I have a hard time calling a game that most people here have not heard of before now a
"Classic" or "A game that you have to play to be a real computer gamer". If you want to argue that is is forgotten or ignored gem of a game, fine, but let's keep the hyperbole down.
I played the game back when it was released. I don't recall exactly why I wanted to buy it, maybe some local gaming mag praised it and got me interested.

In the end, if felt a bit gimmicky game to me (the main achievement apparently was that the scrolling background was FMV, and the polygonal characters moved over it), but apparently it was interesting (and easy) enough that I even completed it. Because of the FMV backgrounds, it was also quite linear IIRC. I think there were some things I quite liked, maybe the start menu music was very nice, or there were some funny moments in the game.

I happened to dig the game CDs out two months ago to see whether the game still runs on XP, which it did. I didn't get an urge to replay it though.
Post edited January 08, 2012 by timppu