Commando 2 HD was made by a German Developer who was worried of running afoul of a German law preventing you from showing Nazi Flags in video games. The law was amended to allow for the Nazi Flag to be shown when the Nazis are antagonists, since in Commando 2 you can play as germans, it was thought it wouldn’t count.
This change was not advertised or announced, leading to people buying the game who wouldn’t have had they known it was censored, creating a controversy in the process.
Commando 2 HD is not a “Good Old Game”, meaning GOG had nothing to do with it outside of hosting it, which Steam also did.
Games GOG has a hand in restoring are usually exclusive to GOG, or at the very least GOG has a version that’s patched to work with modern systems while the Steam version… isn’t… as is the case with Mystery Of The Druids
Hey thanks a lot for your level of detail on this!! That makes sense.
I’m liking that GOG seems to also have partnered with Amazon to bring some of their games to Amazon’s streaming service, Luna. I’ve been able to make use of that briefly anyway, so far.
Commando 2 HD was made by a German Developer who was worried of running afoul of a German law preventing you from showing Nazi Flags in video games. The law was amended to allow for the Nazi Flag to be shown when the Nazis are antagonists, since in Commando 2 you can play as germans, it was thought it wouldn’t count.
This change was not advertised or announced, leading to people buying the game who wouldn’t have had they known it was censored, creating a controversy in the process.
Commando 2 HD is not a “Good Old Game”, meaning GOG had nothing to do with it outside of hosting it, which Steam also did.
Games GOG has a hand in restoring are usually exclusive to GOG, or at the very least GOG has a version that’s patched to work with modern systems while the Steam version… isn’t… as is the case with Mystery Of The Druids
Hey thanks a lot for your level of detail on this!! That makes sense.
I’m liking that GOG seems to also have partnered with Amazon to bring some of their games to Amazon’s streaming service, Luna. I’ve been able to make use of that briefly anyway, so far.