I always spent my half an hour to read this webpage's articles daily
along with a cup of coffee.

This is a game not for children.

I have to say I LOVE this game. Thank you so much GGOTD, as this one is a real winner in my book. No trouble with d/l or installation or play. LOVE IT!!

Did anyone actually play this? It's a horribly disappointing piece of junk. For free, it's worth a few minutes of time--but the game is absolutely not worth paying for. Your $10 can go to so many far better games.

This is the best giveaway I have seen so far on this site! Absolutely wonderful game!!!

I tried downloading this game and it wds the slowest thing I have ever downloaded since getting a cable modem. It took nearly 7 hours to download, and by the time it was finished, it was past mightnight -thus, as it was the next day, when I ran the game, it told me I couldn't play it for free, since it was a day late.

How lame!
Might want a bit of leeway on that next time, lads, or determine why it would take so long to download.

I'm sure getting sick and tired of attempting to install offers a considerable time before offer expiration and being denied permission to do so because of receiving offer expired messages in error!!!!!!!
Tonight is the second time this week this has happened to me. What gives?

Thankyou #34 re Open GL much appreciated. I downloaded ROBBOX and I am hooked, very late nights. Thanks again and to GGOTD.

Really disappointed. Extreemly large file downloaded 3 different times and file would not install. Showed corrupted each time. Now it's too late to install. Really wanted this game! Thanks anyway GGOTD.

Thanks Tippex for clearing that up. Bear in mind it was around 5am when I wrote that. I just had this thought in my head about wasted space on each of the memory blocks. I'm sure there's a way to optimise this so that you can regain some of the lost space.

Of course with a clearer mind I see. (though it's yet again after 5am the next day, lol.)

Thanks to everyone who've made kind comments about the reviews I've posted recently. Hopefully I'll get into a routine once I've settled into getting the heads up on what were going to be given. At the moment I'm spending a lot more time on the reviews which wasn't my intention. I'd hoped to make the reviews more succinct and erudite, but instead I seem to be expanding them into something even bigger than previous to my statement about giving up on the reviews (which I may add was said after a particularily bad night.

I downloaded, then got message "Windows can't open ..." I tried downloading again, and it won't download. Since it may not be Vista compatible, it may be no loss. Does anyone have any ideas about how to deal with this?

worked fine with vista hp,good game

I actually downloaded in about 20 seconds on high speed, so dialup might be faster than you think. If you start, you should get an estimate, only then give up. I'm hoping this is Vista compatible.

Great Game! Hefty file size, but well worth it! 9/10

Okay, well, I managed to free up some space enough to install it and so far it's running great. Thanks for your help (you, too Mad Ollie). I guess I do have 4 partitions, but the destination drive was still supposed to be C: which has tons of room (it kept saying it needed 500K to install and that I only had 197K available, which made no sense to me), so I don't know what the program was reading or why, but anyway, it's working now..(and I'm sure much of what I just said sounds totally stupid, so I'll leave the techno stuff to you guys..haha..) thanks again guys, and sorry for rambling, it's been a long day :)

Yay, something a little different than what we've had recently. I'm going to have to make a little room for the post install size I think, but so far as the download, even downloading two other files at the same time, guestimated download time for this will only be about 15 minutes tops. No trouble finding the file when I click the download link, so they must have fixed that error (or the mirror link was never broken.)

Can't wait to get this installed and start shooting and blowing things up. LOL ;)

Hey Whiterabbit...just got home from work... thanks for the info (a lot of it is over my head..haha), but I will try your suggestions & we'll see what happens. Thanks again! :)

Wow. Now THAT is a great free game! This is almost a good as RIP 3!!!

Thanks, WhiteRabbit for your insights... looks like you're back in full swing! Lol, Mad Ollie... Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project was the first "action" game I ever bought! And I'm a mom! So I'm downloading on yours and WhiteRabbit's recommendation. ;)

time to download 15 hours
time to install 8 hours
you do the maths

for the folks with lots of space and the installer doesn't think so, take a look at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2792?replies=9#post-19726 and see if that trick works. :)

This is a great game and it is free!! Great job GOTD i tell everyone i know about you guys have gotten many very useful pieces of software from you!! To all those people that complain about software....its free if you dont like it don't download! Just be thankful that a site like this exists!

the setup loads the whole file in memory and then runs the installer and because I have only 256mb ram with lots of programs running in background, that didn't work..
after restarting windows+closing some programs, it works fine.
so #14, try freeing some memory and increasing pagefile size and running the setup in Safe mode with networking..

Incompatible with vista I suppose...sad day.

This is on the finest FPS games I've ever played..AND IT'S FREE!!
Great graphics and sound,awesome gameplay! I give this 5 stars!!
GET THIS GAME NOW!

Sadly, The server where the file download is has gone really rubbish!

I'm on an 8Mb Cable connection, My connection is o-k but file downloads are a very slow 17Kbps

Don't know if there's a problem with Giveaway site but it's been like this since January...I download movies in 22 minutes!

Can some please tell me the setup.exe file's hash (deleted the zip file so can't check that) ?

never got this error before with giveaway.com downloads..

I am getting Runtime error when running the setup.exe (like #14).
xp sp2- fully updated
can someone please tell me the file hash so I can see if there is something wrong with the download or my xp ?

Guess I'm not the only one who lost Turtle Odyssey and Turtle Odyssey
2. Hope they have them again soon. I like the 2 better.

I just wanted to say thank-you to Whiterabbit aka Stephen for the wonderful reviews. Had a scare when you said you may stop. I always read your reviews even if, like today, I don't download the game. You take the time to help others even if you don't have to. THANK YOU!!!

As for the game I will not be downloading today. I am on dial-up and I just don't like this genre.
Thank you GGOTD for all the games and software you give us every day.
Keep it up it is much appreciated.
Back tomorrow.
Tamarra26

#14: It's time to upgrade to XP!

Mad Ollie (#39) - Thanks a lot! After using RefreshForce it works properly
Yes, Hz of course:)

Is anybody else having trouble with this game? Should it work on Vista?

OK - I'm having a bad day it seems.
Since the file is sooo big it took a while to download.
It seemed to extract fine (winrar) but on running the exe I get [Fatal error: key is invalid] so tested the zip file and it came up good.
So I tried downloading a second time and get
=> 502 Bad Gateway

Are the servers having issues again?
That may explain the validation key not being accepted.
......................................
Yup servers are having issues
=> 500 Internal Server Error
=> activation module failed to connect ....
.....................................
Yay we have connection ^_^!!!

And the game is pretty awsome for a basic sidescroller maze game... retro chunkiness ^_^!!

Thanks for today's offer. Very nice to have a different game than what is normally offered ... and more 'adult' oriented (blood). For me, this is not my 'cup-of-tea' but downloaded this for my husband and he will be very happy I did! The download was longer than I expected on DSL (about 45 minutes), but from setup to game play took much less time on a Windows XP, 2 system. Overall, this game looks like a very fun 'shoot-em' game. Thank you!

Slasher (#26): Try a tool like "RefreshForce" to set higher refresh rates than 60Hz (not MHz btw.) for fullscreen games.

But that's more a Windows issue than a problem of this game. As far as I know it's known as the "60Hz bug" of DirectX under Win2000/XP. Many games behave like this...

#28: It's more like "Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project". ;-)

(Of course it's not as cool as that one, but still quite good...)


By the way - are there any cheat codes for this game? ^^

Wow! Hubby will like this one. It's an interesting game but lots of blood. Seemed to work fine but this was the longest download and install I've ever gotten from GGOTD. Other than that Whitrabbit says it all.....thanks Stephen and thanks GGOTD!

Ave the mighty Whiterabbit! Thank you for all the time you dedicate to your reviews for our benefit. It is much appreciated :)

@whiterabbit, you're sort of confusing memory with hard disk, both are not the same, fragmentation occours when files are saved on non contigious sectors (hence fragmentation), all defragmentation does is moves the files into a contigious block, it does NOT free up disk space at all

the game itself though i played before, quite nice, and definately a nice one for ggaotd to release.. thumbs up

#22 Ladyluck... Open GL stands for Open Graphics Library and Open Graphics Language. It has nothing to do with whether the game plays online or offline. If you google Open GL you will find more info on it than you ever wanted to know. As far as getting the games back for free, soon, I think that would kind of defeat the purpose of the project, wouldn't it? Luckily games do come back around again. Even if folks complain about it.

#1 Stephen... Did you give up on putting your reviews in the Forums with just a brief synopsis here in the comments section? I enjoy reading your reviews irregardless where written, but was just curious. I had kind of hoped by getting people going to the forums for your reviews people would learn to use the forums for things like, oh, I don't know... technical problems and suggestions on software for the project and leave this comments section to comments about the game. :-D

I don't much care for Sci Fi background games as I usually prefer Fantasy to Sci Fi. But I took a chance and downloaded Robbox the other day and enjoyed it so I will try this game out as well. If I find I have anything significant to add to what has already been said, I will be back. ;-)

doesn't load saved game. gives fatal error while loading.

screenshot:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/6084/80894478gm1.jpg

When I attempt to run the installer I get an error:
During Activation a new dialog appears -
Setup
Fatal Error:Key is Invalid.
Okay

XPsp2, broadband connection. I've downloaded it twice, unzipped both successfully, and the error appears at the same time in the process the two times I've attempted it.

ALL HAIL! OUR MIGHTY RABBIT HAS COME THROGH AGAIN! From the Hammer Twins, and my Wife, Thank You Stephen for all you do for us. God Bless You and Your Family, and Thank You Game Give Away of The Day for all you do. And a "Hammer" Hello to all who visit this site!

I'm sitting on top of a T1 line and I've tried six times to download the game. Each time I get the lovely "can't find this" error. Perhaps someone at your end could double check and see if there is a coding error somewhere or if the link has gone dead? I'd love to have this...great relief from dealing with students and grading.

Is Stephen-aka- Whiterabbit a super hero reviewer,how his reviews so detailed and substantial and first of the mark,all bow to the mighty Rabbit.

thanks for the NOVEL whiteRabbit....

holy crap


it's "duke nukem 3D"

Hi Goodgotd,
I can't comment on the differences between today's and last July's version of the game as I was on vacation when that was given away (as I was for yesterday's golf game as well). It's definitely 100Mb + lighter which can't account for all of the movies (me thinks???) Also I've not noticed a version number anywhere. I'm just wondering whether some videos and music were removed to help those with dial up as it's a 25% reduction in size, though I would expect a download manager would be needed?

Cheryl comment #24, are you installing it to your boot drive or have you accidentally changed the install position to one of your disc drives? That would be one reason for the "not enough disc space" message. Sorry I can't be of further help.

When you say you have 80G of free space on your hard drive; has it been partitioned? and /or formatted? If it has, the 80Gb may very well be on the partitioned side of the disc, so would be inaccessible unless you changed the install path to the partitioned disc letter. Or it could even be that you have 80Gb of un-partitioned space. When I first installed a large drive I remember getting a message saying that drives larger than something like 135Mb or was it 175Mb (I can't remember the exact figure) couldn't be partitioned and then formatted until Windows XP had first been installed (This was setting up a system from a new set of Hard Drives. I didn't know how to complete the job once the initial partitioning was done so I had this space on the disc that was unusable for ages. Google eventually solved the problem for me, :lol: (Sorry if that sounds confusing, I’ve only just woke up)

You could try doing a disc clean up by using the add /remove programs facility found in the control panel. .

Empty your recycle bin.

Right click on your internet browser and select internet properties. On the general tab you can delete cookies, browsing history and temporary files.

Also go to the Start Menu , click on the Control Panel. Choose 'Performance and Maintenance' then 'Free up Space on your Hard Disc, this runs the Disc Utility that scans for temporary internet files (there's always loads in that section on mine because I download a lot from the internet) There's a whole host of other stuff including temporary files (different to the temporary internet files) that you need to check, then click on the okay button to run the utility.

I've only recently built the computer I’m working on at the moment. It’s been running for about six weeks and already there's over 5Gb of stuff in my temporary folders. I don't bother running this utility often because all my computers have around a terabyte of disk space each, so there’s no real need to, but if you have smaller drives it’s a good idea to run the above at least once a week. Defragmenting the drive also helps to free up some space. (I can’t explain this off the top of my head though; it has something to do with data being stored in packets. Each of the segments that the memory is saved to is not always filled up. Nothing else can use this memory until the files have been moved by defragmenting I think that’s the way it works. I use Diskeeper which runs in the background so my discs are always kept un-fragmented. There was a program called Ashampoo Magical Defrag given away free if you bought a particular computer magazine. It was mentioned in the forums last week, though I can’t remember what the thread was called. That program also keeps your discs defragmented. They are a great investment as they keep your computer running much more efficiently.

Sorry for going off on one. It was all related though. :lol:

Very bad one - the refreshing frequency is automatically set to 60MHz or lower so playing is impossible. Thumb down

#24: Do you have multiple partitions on your hard disk?
Maybe there's just not enough space on partition C: for temporary files.