Today I got a notice that I had been accepted into the Good Old Games beta, a service to bring some of the older classic PC games to modern systems at a cheap price.

The selection is a bit limited right now, but there are a handful of them that I’m interested in, having missed them the first time around. I’ll probably eventually get Operation Flashpoint, Freespace 2, and Antaeus Rising, but for now I just bought Giants: Citizen Kabuto. The download and install was straightforward and painless, and the game itself works pretty much perfectly.

Giants is a third-person shooter, but it has a couple twists to it. You’ll wind up controlling three different characters during it, one of which is more of a straightforward gun-shootin’ soldier, one a rather underdressed magic-casting “sea reaper”, and the last one a giant monster, each with their own special abilities. I only played through the first four missions or so of the MECC soldier part tonight, and so far I’ve gotten a jetpack, rescued a bunch of annoying kid-like ‘Smarties’, and recovered a teammate that I can control.