Silent Hill 4, Deus Ex And F.E.A.R. Among Latest Games To Enter GOG's Preservation Program
In February, when one of the scourges of preservation, Warner Bros. (a company that shelves finished movies such that they may never be seen by anyone, while deleting vast archives of classic animations from its streaming services, alongside closing down game studios that have created some of the best games of recent times), GOG reacted to the news of the closure of Monolith with an announcement that it will attempt to save as many of the studio's games as it's able via the Preservation Program. The first of these, FEAR, is now in.
Meanwhile, 2004's Silent Hill 4 has joined the program with the addition of 'restored scenes that were never available on PC before,' according to a press release from GOG. This includes missing 'hauntings,' the strange events that occur, which GOG found were in the PC code but never included—their engineers have dug them out and got them working.
Alongside those two headliners are some other classic games that could easily merit the same moniker. Stone-cold classics like Deus Ex,Fallout 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, Alone In The Dark 1 to 3, and all eight original Ultima games are also now included, meaning they will be constantly maintained to work on modern PCs for as long as GOG exists (and, the company told me, it has plans in place to ensure preservation can continue if it was to go away). Oh, and Crystal Dynamic's first threeTomb Raiders.
Here's the full list of new additions. It's worth noting most of these are currently at least 75 percent off in GOG's current sale:
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
Tomb Raider: Underworld, Anniversary and Legend
Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3
Ultima™ 1+2+3
Ultima™ 4+5+6
Ultima™ 8 Gold Edition
Wing Commander™ 1+2
Deus Ex GOTY Edition
Jagged Alliance 2
Fallout 2
Privateer 2: The Darkening
Port Royale 3 Gold
Alien Breed + Tower Assault
Cannon Fodderand Cannon Fodder 2
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