Space Rangers 2 has Starforce!

[dajunka]

Originally Posted by ThePrince

@ amazon you can read the following: one of the top 5 pc games of the year

Can anyone tell me if it´s worth to buy it ?

Thanks ???

If you want a game that's worth the money then buy Galactic Civilizations II, it's worth every penny and 100% addictive, only £17.99 from Play.com.

[whoeverxxx]

Originally Posted by dajunka

If you want a game that's worth the money then buy Galactic Civilizations II, it's worth every penny and 100% addictive, only £17.99 from Play.com.

dajunka, you really liked Galactic Civ2 better than Space Rangers 2? Have you even tried SR2?
I thought G2 was an improvement over the first game but I remember an old game called Masters of Orion 2 that had gameplay almost identical to this game and it was made in the 90's. 3 things I really hate about G2 is that there is no multiplay and you can't colonize planets with hostile envirements unlike Moo2. Other than the graphics and the ship cutomization, I think Moo2 had a slight edge over G2 even though its considered vintage now. Both games have bad AI in my opinion but in the 90's atleast Moo2 was ahead of its time. Come to think of it, multiplay would bore me to sleep on a game like that anyway. For good multiplay TBS, my vote would go to Civ4.

[FarCry]

i think there is some difference. there are 2 games:

Space Rangers 2: Dominators
Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators


the crack released by reloaded is for Space Rangers 2: Dominators

they both have different covers.

[rlsuth]

They're both the same game. The first cover is from the UK release and the second is teh US.

I guess there is some difference in the copy protection on the two releases.
It would be interesting to compare the level of Starforce protection on the two versions.

[acepanther]

Originally Posted by rlsuth

They're both the same game. The first cover is from the UK release and the second is teh US.

Either they are not the same, or the no-cd patch sucks. I just bought the US release a few weeks ago and when I try to use the patch, the game crashes to desktop while playing.

This happens all the time when I try to get a mission from a planetery goverment, and they do not have a mission for me. I tested this. It kept crashing when I tried to get a mission. I restored, tried again, same thing. I went to a new planet, tried to get a mission, crashed. I finally got a planet to give me a mission, but the next try ... crash.

So, I re-installed and let it install Starforce (@#$%) and played with the CD in the drive. I then restored and tried those same planets that crashed. They didn't crash and the only thing they had in common was that none of them had a mission for me.

[rlsuth]

Originally Posted by acepanther

Either they are not the same, or the no-cd patch sucks. I just bought the US release a few weeks ago and when I try to use the patch, the game crashes to desktop while playing.

You obviously misunderstand. They ARE the same game, they just either have different versions of Starforce installed, or Starforce is installed differently, but, the game is the same.

[Tiger Stripe]

Has anyone managed to get the 'no cd' hack to work properly with the U.S. version of SR2? I've tried a few re-installs, but swapping the hacked .exe file always leads to a crash before the game even gets underway.

Any thoughts?