id games added to Steam News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
id Software's back catalogue of games will be made available through Valve's Steam digital distribution system after the QuakeCon conference tonight.
That's 24 titles from Commander Keen right up to Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, and they'll all work on modern operating systems.
id's also offering an "id Superpack" containing all of them.
What's more, conference attendees get a free copy of Quake 1, and a USD 10 coupon to put toward them.
CEO Todd Hollenshead said Steam was "a credit to Valve" and "the future of distribution for games".
Games cost from USD 4.95 to USD 19.95, with packages in the USD 17.95 to USD 35.95 range. The "super pack", containing every id title available on Steam, is USD 62.95.
The full register looks like this:
Individual games:
- Commander Keen, Episodes 1 through 5
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Spear of Destiny
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Ultimate DOOM
- DOOM II
- Master Levels for DOOM II
- Final DOOM
- DOOM3
- DOOM3: Resurrection of Evil
- QUAKE
- QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
- QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
- QUAKE II
- QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
- QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
- QUAKE III Arena
- QUAKE III: Team Arena
- Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
- HeXen
- HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
- HeXen II
Packages:
- DOOM 3 Pack: Includes DOOM 3 and DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil
- QUAKE III Pack: Includes QUAKE III Arena and QUAKE III: Team Arena
- Wolf Pack: Includes Wolf 3D, Spear of Destiny and Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- DOOM Pack Complete: Includes all DOOM games released by id
- QUAKE Pack: Includes all 8 QUAKE Titles available on Steam
- Heretic\HeXen Pack: Includes Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, HeXen, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, HeXen II
- id Super Pack: Every id game on Steam
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Pretty sweet. My only worry is that the older games won't run at decent resolutions. Looking at the downloadable manual for Doom, for example, shows that it uses the Doom 95 version, with a max resolution of 640x480. Most Doom fans should be aware there are open source versions that provide high resolutions and better graphics (provided you have the legally-owned WAD files).
That's a point -- I don't know much about Steam -- do games purchased from Steam work the same way as Half-Life 2, totally integrated into Steam and requiring login? Or do games like these install and operate outside of Steam?
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Waffleaber
04/08/07 @ 12:31
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I bought the ID Anthology years ago which contained all the games they'd made up until Quake (and a free t-shirt!)
Never really liked Commander Keen, it was a really odd selection of games, they all seemed really different but that may be my memory playing up. The true old skool gem missing from this line up is Dangerous Dave which was bloody amazing. |
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sickpuppysoftware
04/08/07 @ 20:47
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Anybody know if they all work under vista? I can't find anything on compatibility.
Very tempted even though I own most of them already. |
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NegativeZero
06/08/07 @ 00:01
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Heretic and Hexen? Interesting, those were Raven games, not id. I think all that id did was publish them.
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Ditto RtCW, if I remember rightly. Quite a good game though, at any rate; it's a shame more modern FPSes can't provide viable stealth/action options like RtCW did. You could run-and-gun through almost any of the stages without a care, but the challenge of sneaking through them undetected, carving up any potential witnesses with a knife was great fun.
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"Most Doom fans should be aware there are open source versions that provide high resolutions and better graphics (provided you have the legally-owned WAD files)."
True, can you think of a better way to get said WADs? ;) You should also bare in mind that the games with CD soundtracks, most notably Quake 1 and 2 are missing them in this pack and that Keen 6 and Keen Dreams are missing because ID do not own the rights. |
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