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Lucasarts bringing classic games to Steam
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 7th July 2009
Lucasarts' Steam debut will include previously unreleased and hard to find versions of some games, such as LOOM.
What's more, the list of re-releases will include a selection of previously unreleased and hard-to-find versions of some games and every game to get a re-release has been tweaked to run perfectly on Windows XP and Vista.
The full list of games getting the Steam treatment hasn't been fully unveiled, but the initial line-up will include the following ten games and will be available tomorrow - Armed and Dangerous, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure, LOOM, Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars Republic Commando, Star Wars Starfighter, The Dig, Thrillville: Off the Rails.
On July 15th the initial batch of re-releases will be bolstered by the launch of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which will also be available on Steam and will be a graphical and audio overhaul of the original adventure classic.
What's most interesting of all though is that some of the games on list (and Lucasarts has claimed that this is "just the beginning") will be previously unreleased versions of the original. The Steam version of musical fantasy LOOM will be based on the talkie edition of the game, not the initial text-only release. Steam's copy of The Last Crusade will also be an updated version, with tonnes of bug fixes and a specially emulated sound engine.
"This effort is going to make it possible to introduce a whole new generation of gamers to LucasArts' classic games," said Darrell Rodriguez, president of LucasArts. "It also gives more people a chance to play our games by making them available long after they've disappeared from store shelves. We hope our fans are as excited as we are about our plans and we can't wait to share what's coming next. This is just the beginning."
Personally, we're glad to see that the initial line-up isn't just a quick cash-in on the better known Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max games and actually includes the massively under-appreciated LOOM and The Dig. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the forums.
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Imagine an up to date X-Wing game, would be awesome!
Yeah I'd pay for an update of those, even though I own the originals. A really great series that, can't understand why they aren't cashing in on it more, especially given the current dearth of space sims these days
Totally.
A rerelease of X-Wing Collectors CD, TIE Fighter Collectors CD, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (with Balance of Power) and X-Wing Alliance would be amazing.
And then make another TIE Fighter game.
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But good news about those releases. If/when they have them all released and do a mega pack type thing... I might make my first Steam purchase...
I was planning on picking that up too. I've heard good things about it and it passed me by the first time around.
I can't stand the Prequels, so I'm a bit biased there... but SWRC was at best fairly generic and at worst a steaming pile of bantha poodoo. ;)
But no DotT? :(
I thought he wrote DotA at first ;)
no way man, republic commando was way underrated, it was an awesome game!
God bless Lucasarts and Steam!!
Would be a great choice, I played nearly all of the Lucasarts titles the first time around and it was deffo one of the better ones!!
Am loving all this relaunching of Lucasarts titles that's going on at the mo.
It was a sad day that the point & click genre was pushed to one side. 3D gaming has a lot to answer for!!!
Honestly? I don't care about all the 14 year olds getting confused. Most of them feel like they know it all [almost like Cheaps :p] but have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA about the games that started it.
/me is back to playing some TTDeluxe, Civ or DR... :p
Spent ages getting thru the ranks of the Dark side.....on a 486 ;)
The missions were great!!!
that's why I love steam now ! I can't think of any other app out there that was hated by everyone when it first came out and then years later it's become absolutely amazing :D
I wouldn't mind replaying Jedi Knight II. I was just so young back then and I didn't understand a single word of english, which made it hard to play some games. Just browsing the menus was a pain haha
Glad to hear it's running flawlessly. Time to install Steam on the laptop I guess. :)
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is fairly new - it was built on the Quake 3 Arena engine. Do you mean the original Jedi Knight, which was Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (and it's add on pack, Mysteries of the Sith) both of which were awesome. :D But getting them to run on XP or Vista? Nightmare. :( Modern graphics cards are just too powerful and lack some of the features that older ones had.
Really, Dark Forces, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy should be must plays for anyone who wants FPS Star Wars goodness. :D It was the fact that JKII was so good that made me think that Republic Commando could have been so much more than it was.
why precisely this date ?
You're right, noob mistake on my part here. It was indeed Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. I believe I still have the original box somewhere
I suspect that November 2008 was when Steam decided to start charging $ in the US, £ in the UK and in Europe. Unfortunately, despite the fact that the is stronger than the $, Steam think a 1:1 conversion is correct.
And sorry for the ramble about Jedi Knight. I was so hooked on those games. Jedi Knight was the first game I ever played multiplayer on. :D
Me too, back on the MSN Zone. I could NOT get enough of it.
Yeah, the MSN Gaming Zone. :D Wow... back in the day... playing Jedi Knight and Q2DM1 on the Zone... I was pretty good at Jedi Knight, but sucked royally at Quake 2. Lightsaber fights were sweet. :D
Best bit of Jedi Outcast? The console tweak that allowed for lightsaber dismemberment! :D
What may cost you US$50, cost here US$70 (50).
I was suspecting that to be the case but I didn't know they suddently changed their prices. I thought it was progessive or something less obvious at least
Not even the price decreases are working:
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5121/imagem0221.jpg
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http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3262/stme1.jpg
Its like Steam is being managed by someone totally oblivious to the european market.
To be fair, I don't think that's entirely fair. All of those games are EA titles and we know the price is set by the publisher...
I only took those images beacuse those are the games I didnt bought (Securom...) and was thinking on geting at bargain price.