
Originally Posted by
Clive Woofer
I don't know how many of you make use of GOG.com, but they have an EA weekend promo with quite a few old gems in. It's still running for 19 hours.
I bought Alpha Centauri and the Starflight pack. Alpha Centauri is probably the best Civ-like game available, even better than Civ 5. It's very dated and thus very difficult to learn the ropes, but well worth the effort. Not many games allow you to melt the polar ice caps in order to flood your opponents' coastal towns.
Starflight is a little bit easier to learn, but technologically it's far behind, having released somewhere in the 80s. The closest modern game to it would have to be Mass Effect. There's a giant universe to explore with a bunch of races each with their own political agendas and alignments and missions. If you can look past the dated graphics, there's a lot of fun to be had.
Other good strategy games up for sale would be the two Dungeon Keeper games, Theme Hospital, Syndicate and Populous.