Steam Midweek Madness - AvP Classic 2000 $2 / Commandos Collection - $5

[animalspinners]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/3730/ - AvP 2000

No end date given, but probably Thursday at 7 pm EST as that's when they've been stopping the Midweek Madness deals.

I own it, can't go wrong for $2, it is worth at least that. It also has the MP back in. From personal experience, the game runs great despite being an older game, Rebellion did a great job.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4156

Also on sale is the Commandos Pack for $4.99. Included in the collection are

- Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
- Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
- Commandos 2
- Commandos 3

These games, namely the first two Commandos games, appear to have problems with newer systems (i.e any computer built in the last 4 years, probably) that Eidos didn't bother to fix on the Steam versions - saving / loading glitches, and speed problems. The saving / loading is fixed, however read about the speed problem here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=545609

 

[demented1]

AVP is worth it! Steam always gets me with these deals. It all started with the .98 Half Life deal.

 

[eastx]

Jumped on AvP at last. Great deal.

 

[Spooon69]

Does AvP have co-op? Special levels or the entire single-player campaign?

 

[bitter1961]

[quote name='Spooon69']Does AvP have co-op? Special levels or the entire single-player campaign?[/QUOTE]

Like the original AvP release, it's a special mode (single player calls the mode skirmish, multiplayer calls it cooperative) with special levels. The in-game description covers it:

All players are marines or predators. They must survive against computer controlled aliens, predaliens, and praetorians.

Or from the Steam page:

Skirmish mode against infinite Alien hordes

This mode is the only form of coop in the game. There's 13 special coop/skirmish maps included, 8 of which are marked "(NEW)". I don't remember those, so they might be from the Gold Edition/Millenium Pack, or maybe are new to Classic 2000. It seems to be the popular game mode -- the in-game browser found 6 games running, 4 of which were coop.

 

[FiendCameron]

In for Commandos Collection. Never played them, but my friend was obsessed w/ them for a while. $5 and back of my backlog

 

[gunm]

Shit another $2 impulse buy for me! >_