I have a GOG.com account. GOG stands for Good Old Games, and they serve an interesting niche – vintage games for download, ported for modern systems and without DRM, for a decent price. All-round it’s a great service and so far I’ve bought about 6-7 games from them, for about 4-5 bucks a piece.
Earlier today I got news that they’ve added one of my all-time favorite games, and it didn’t take long for me to shell out the five smackers it cost. One of the nice things about GOG is that they adapt/port games to work on modern systems, and this was something I really looked forward to since in the past DK2 has proven somewhat finicky to get going on anything except a 1999-era computer. Those old machines (Voodoo graphics!) are starting to get VERY difficult procuring these days.
So I bought it from GOG and gave it a spin.
Of course it’s the same old game, so here’s some plus and minus with the GOG-version:
+ Installs really smoothly using their own installer.
+ Quick download and you get some bonus materials with the game, in this case a manual, a reference guide and a level editor.
+ Instant gratification, game starts almost immediately on a modern system.
+ Runs fine under Windows 7, in my case a 64-bit install. Can probably get it going under Wine too, with some coaxing.
- Still kind of funky settings-wise. I couldn’t get hardware-accelerated graphics going.
- Game is quite unstable. Less unstable than vanilla DK2, but still crashes quite often and randomly.
Totally worth five dollars, despite the oddities.







