Since I read about people playing them COOP and I have them and never opened
them etc I figured I'd install them and try. I mean the seals were still on
the boxes! There was a rebate coupon for Hexen II in there that expired in
1998! I have a number of games I got deep discounts on I've never had the
time to install yet.
If I had known there were completely new soundtracks by Sonic Mayhem I
would've opened
them right away! They rock! It seems that Ground Zero has mostly completely
new tracks while The Reckoning has some of the original ones, and some of
the new ones are alternate versions which are cool.
Anyway I watched the demos and tried them. GZ has a look and feel like the
old Quake and with Quake like monsters and one of the new weapons has the
exact sound effect of the Quake nailgun. Very original. Neat in a way but
c'mon! TR seems more Q2 like than GZ. Also the opening cinematics of TR are
much better and closer to the original Q2 than GZ which is more amateur. At
any rate I'm sure many community mods and sp maps were as good or better
than these.
I had a problem with the installation program for both on Win2K which is
what I have now.
I did some google searching and found a forum where someone had the exact
same problem but no one replied to it. The files on the cd are not
compressed so I attempted copying the files
much the same way I would for any community game mod and after a few tries
got them
both up and running. The file I did not copy was the gamex86.dll because the
3.2 patch installs
the most up to date version in the correct directories for you whether you
have the mission packs or not.
Ill have to check out the new DM levels too.
David
http://www.zmax.org/quake2/
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