Space Rangers 2 is now on TotalGaming.net

No DRM, no fuss, and only $19.95 for this award winning epic space game!

http://totalgaming.stardock.com/games/?id=sr2
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Stardock is pleased to announce that Space Rangers 2 is now on TotalGaming.net.  Space Rangers is one part strategy game, one part adventure game, and one part space simulation.  It has received very good reviews (85% overall average making it one of the highest rated PC games of the last couple of years).

As Gaming Trends put it:



There is not a single second wasted in the entirety of the game and there is no mistaking it for a small game. Space Rangers 2 is epic in scope, gargantuan in size, and goes so far beyond fun it borders on ridiculous. I am absolutely drunk in love with this magnificent title and have forced myself to finish this review just so I can get back to saving the universe - with a little pillaging on the side.


The game is truly epic in scale. A great deal of it feels like a role playing game. Other parts feel like a strategy game. It's difficult to describe the genre since it encompasses so many different elements. It's the same difficulty many had explaining Star Control 2. Adventure game? Strategy game? Action game? All of the above?

You can read their full review here.

But now you can get the award-winning Space Rangers 2 digitally via TotalGaming.net.  The same convenience (and no DRM) found in Galactic Civilizations II can be had with Space Rangers 2. Just press a button and install it to your machine. Get a new machine 5 years from now? No problem, just re-download it. 

With TotalGaming.net you can manage all your games from a single UI -- Stardock Central.  No renting, no DRM, it's your game, any time, anywhere.

And what about price? Space Rangers 2 is only $19.99!


 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oooo, of course I'll have to try out the demo first but this looks like it might be intereasting.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I liked Space Rangers 2. The best way I would describe it is it has a "Pirates" in space feel to it. It's fun building up your cash to upgrade your ship to eventually fight the Dominators.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Looks good, I will try out the demo. Big draw for me (other than a good game) is the no-CD and licensing model of Stardock.

Thanks
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Question about the game. In the review it mentions that the first part of the saga is included. Is that the case?

Thanks!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
When I bought my copy a few months back it came with Space rangers 1 on the disc as well, i'm assuming that this is the case with the downloadable version.

Space Rangers 2 is a great game, it kept me amused for ages, it's got everything from RTS sections which you fight with robots, text based adventure bits and non-linear space trading, bounty hunting, piraty bits in space.

I can't recommend it highly enough.



Now I feel guilty for playing other games behind GalCivs' back   

I must make ammends!! (Loads up GalCiv)   
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, It is in the box version (separate disc) but I find it hard to play the SP1 when 2 is basicly the same exact game but with many good improvements. Some of the improvements over 1 are :
1) use probes on uninhabited planets to find many useful items .( 1 these planets were useless)
2) New medical and business centers Space stations. (I especially miss Business centers when I tried to play the first one. So I haven't play SP1 all that much)
3) you can buy any coalition ship in the game. also more items to add to your ship
4) each hull varies more than SP1 so some slots are not availiable. For example a transport can only have 2 or 3 weapons compared to a warriors five weapon slots.
5) you can buy space stations
6) command military operations together with the military bases.
7) Better over all atmosphere
8) you can store items and ships at any port. (In SP 1 AFAIK you can only have one ship and you had to carry everything with you or sell it. Now in SP2 I can unload some of my weapons to have more room to transport goods to make cash. Later come back reload the weapons to fight again.)

So IMO you are not missing anything that's not already in SP2.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I haven't bought a game since GCII back in June or July. I had bought at least one or two a month before GCII, but this game looks really interesting and the fact that Stardock is backing it makes it even more tempting. Think I'll have a go at the demo if there is one(I never buy anymore without playing a demo)and maybe line up my next purchase.  
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Opps. I keep thinking it Space Pirates instead of Space Rangers
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This is great, I really wanted this game when it came out, but I never bought it because of the CD protections. I'm definitely picking this one up online.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I too intended to buy it but it was Starforced and that meant a No Buy for me. I would rather not support a program that they install Starforce on the Disk version but leave it off the DL version.

There should be a patch to remove Starforce from the Boxed version of the game. I will not be trying the demo, nor buying the game.

I do not and will not support those that use Starforce on their programs.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I was intrigued by this game when it first came out, the breadth of gameplay seemed amazing (the text adventure aspects appealed to me the most!) Money was tight at the time, though, and I eventually forgot about it. Now that Stardock has it, and it has Brad's stamp of approval, and it's under $20, I think I might get it.

But, I'll have to try the demo first. Does anyone know the demo limitations? Limited number of turns, limited features, or limited map?
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The demo has a limited number turns. Which really saddened me. Once I have the money, I might just have to pick up this game. I really had fun with the demo.
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The game appears to need another English translation edit pass. There are a lot of ESL-isms in the text of the game.
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Very nice, was just about to crack and buy this off D2D but totalgaming.net got it, PERFECT. Good day, between X3 being on a rival network and this. Darn i never going to find the time to finish Baldurs gates....
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Haha

Darn i never going to find the time to finish Baldurs gates....


And I thought I was the only one who still had this gem on his computer waiting to be finsihed
Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
call me a noob but I see Frogboy stating about no DRM - what is DRM?
Reply #17 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I usually buy 4-6 games per year, but GC2 has kept me amazed and entertained for so long, I haven't even thought of picking up another game since.

This looks delicious though so I might buy in on it.

For avonhill--DRM is Digital Rights Management. Not sure exactly what it means, but it is something along the lines that when you buy a game, you really don't buy it. You simply liscence it and the true "owners" can do whatever they want to you. Even make it self destruct if you don't follow their quirky guidelines. Similar to what they have been doing with the totally invasive copy protection--insinuating programs onto your operating system which can and do interfere with the normal running of your computer (Starforce for example).
Reply #18 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Heh, add me to the list of "heard good things about it, but the DRM prevented me from buying it." I think there's a post around here from me saying I wish I could play it, but my laptop has no CD drive, so I simply couldn't. What a great surprise to load up the GalCiv2 page and see that message.

Well, time to go find my credit card. Take note, industry - no DRM just made a concrete sale (and more than one, judging by the previous responses). No wishy-washy stories about how "people MIGHT buy a game if it had no DRM." I'm buying it... right now... as you read this! Money in your pocket!

Oops, sorry, not money in YOUR pocket. You saddled your initial release with Starforce. Guess StarDock will have to take my money instead. Poor you...
Reply #19 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well what he means by DRM is , at First Space Rangers 2 was cd with Star force a really aggressive copy protection. Then it went to D2D which is almost a DRM license , you could only install the game on one computer at the time and every new install you had to get a license and activate it and so on, add on the fact it was some what iffy if you could install it to a new different computer or even a upgraded one.
Reply #20 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh my god! I'm calling the feds!! BAIT AND SWITCH!!!! I was drawn in by the subtitle that said $19.95 and was instead told in the post it was a whopping $19.99.

What dark purpose has led you to embezzle these funds, oh frog-who-is-yet-a-man?!?!
Reply #21 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Doh! Didn't notice that! 4 cents down the drain!
Reply #22 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well played the demo and I have to say I'll be d/l full version a little later tonight. There's a lot to like in this game.  


...wanders off to get credit card..
Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No Starforce anymore? Starforce was the reason I didn't buy this game way back when I first heard of it (SF messed up my system on several occasions, so I never buy any games with it anymore). Consider me sold!
Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have one complaint, the demo doesn't come with an instuction manual of any sort and while in charater creation (as far as I've gotten so far) there are no tooltips.
Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
you don't need the manual as the everything is explain in the game. Also at the pirate station you can change you race. So you can pick at the beginning of the game to be a Maloqs warrior then become a Faeyans trader to finally a human ranger in the same game.