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Until Monday February 1st, the X-COM Complete Pack (five games) and the Freedom Force: Freedom Pack (two games) are $2 each (from $14.99 and $7.49 respectively, $24.95 and $9.98 total respectively for their individual games), and the Tropico 3 Steam Edition is marked down by 66% from its usual $39.99 price.

If you have $17.60 available, that's eight full games, people!

Is Tropico 3 worth it? I heard it was essentially Tropico but with better graphics.

Samuel wrote:Is Tropico 3 worth it? I heard it was essentially Tropico but with better graphics.

It is. There are a few more bells and whistles, but yeah, essentially so.

I can confirm that all three of the "proper" X-COM games are working on Windows 7, thanks to the preconfigured DOSBox that each is run with.

Edward Yee wrote:I can confirm that all three of the "proper" X-COM games are working on Windows 7, thanks to the preconfigured DOSBox that each is run with.

X-Com 3 performs kinda poorly though in RT mode...is that the case for you as well? Unavoidable side effect of dosbox I suppose...

I've run Apocalypse in both turn-based and realtime in the DOSBox environment and it's wonky in either. The problem is that Apocalypse was released in that wonky DOS/Windows 95 transition period when software was written for both but didn't really work under either.