Free copy of Red Orchestra

[firehawk12]

I saw this on GAF, but I figure people here wouldn't mind a free game as well.

If you have "the facebooks", you can get a free copy of Red Orchestra (10 dollar value!!!!) by "liking" the following page:

http://www.facebook.com/logitechgaming?v=app_224396475227

Then you will be directed to a "coupon" application... you just have to make sure that you pick "US" as the country when you fill in their form, and presto, free copy of the game you can redeem via Steam.

 

[Rii]

It'll take more than that to get me to sign up to Facebook.

Heroes of Stalingrad is looking good, though, and if managed well has the potential to attract a reasonably sized yet more refined community than that of most FPS games.

 

[Goliath]

Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen a company give away its games like this before.

I bought Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 soon after it was released, and I'm still playing it regularly, four years later: in terms of entertainment value received, that was probably the best forty dollars I've ever spent in my life.

I'm not sure if the RO community is more "refined" than others, but it tends to be a bit more polite than others I have seen.

Definitely looking forward to Heroes of Stalingrad, for which, I assume, this give-away offer is a form of advertising.

 

[Goliath]

There seem to be quite a few people taking advantage of this offer. I was just playing, and there were newbs everywhere.

 

[Amaris]

None left.

 

[firehawk12]

Hah, that was fast.

Maybe I should install it and try it out before everyone disappears again. (Poor Shattered Horizon).

 

[clint g]

Darn, just saw the thread. Oh wells Does it have a decent single player? If it does I might just shell out the ten bucks. I heard great things about it back when it came out.

 

[Goliath]

Does it have a decent single player?

Unfortunately, no. The single-player is crap: just a practice mode with some of the stupidest bots ever programmed. Hopefully this is something they will improve in Heroes of Stalingrad.

 

[Rii]

Unfortunately, no. The single-player is crap: just a practice mode with some of the stupidest bots ever programmed. Hopefully this is something they will improve in Heroes of Stalingrad.

I would hope they don't spend too much time on it. Devs should stick to what makes sense for the game and in light of its likely market and their own expertise and level of resources rather than simply ticking checkboxes. Multiplayer in Bioshock 2 was as artificial and superfluous as singleplayer in Tribes: Vengeance. Both titles disappointed in the sales dept. and both would've been looked upon more favourably had they required less investment to make.

The devs behind Frozen Synapse are currently intent on adding a campaign mode to the game, which strikes me as a colossal waste of development time that could be better invested expanding and refining the core game concept and presentation. I'll take a game that knows what it wants to be and takes pride in that over a sprawling, unrefined mess any day of the week. And for most non-AAA developers working with most game concepts, them's the options that're on the table.

 

[SPCTRE]

^ Agreed on Tribes, that game would have deserved so much more praise. Focusing solely on the multiplayer might have helped, although the game's marketing problems were much bigger than that.