Free game alert: System Shock 2 is available from GOG.com if you jump through some hoops - griffinhomplasson83

It's clip for summer gross sales. The vaunted annual Steam Summer Sale International Relations and Security Network't scheduled to set out for a few weeks yet, but GOG.com kicks sour the fun-out-of-the-sun today with massive deals like 50 per centum off The Witcher 3, 80 pct off or s Infinity Locomotive RPGs, and 75 percentage soured a bunch up of XCOM classics.

But the best things in lifetime are free, eh? For the next 48 hours you can nab a copy of classic gun/horror game (and BioShock predecessor) System Shock 2, wholly relinquish—provided you're willing to spring through GOG.com's hoops.

The advancement is billed atomic number 3 part of a "stress test" for the GOG Galaxy client, which I'm pretty sure is encode for "Please just download it." The ol' Origin method acting of "If we get our computer software on your figurer, then we win."

Ready to claim your copy of System Blow out of the water 2 you'll need to download GOG Galaxy here, install information technology, enter your login info, so scroll down the sale page it brings up until you see a Claim Your Copy button. It should look like this:

And hey, everything at GOG.com is DRM-free then if you really hate GOG Beetleweed you can uninstall it right aft you arrogate your copy, then establis System of rules Shock 2 from the website as usual. The game's yours thoughtless.

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Hayden writes about games for PCWorld and doubles as the resident Zork fancier.