Another World 15th anniversary edition now on GOG.com

by Ben Gilbert on Mar 18th 2010 3:40PM

You see that beautiful, HUD-less vista above? It's from Another World, the European name for the beloved Amiga game from Eric Chahi (later ported to PC, Mega Drive / Genesis, SNES, GBA, among other platforms). Released stateside as Out of This World, the game's 15th anniversary edition (featuring a remastered version of the game, as well as a "making of" video and some other neat bonuses) has just landed on GOG.com for $9.99.

As is the case with other titles on GOG, you're all set to run it in Windows XP or Windows Vista (both 32 and 64-bit). If you've yet to play Another World, well, what's wrong with you? Seriously, it's a great game (not to mention highly influential). Speaking of platform support, why hasn't this made its way to XBLA or PSN yet?

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Tags: amiga, another-world, eric-chahi, GOG, GOG.com, out-of-this-world

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Oh man. I remember playing this on my Amiga as a kid. Bummed about no Win 7 support. =[

Why does everyone assume things won't work on 7? If it works on Vista, odds are it will work on 7.

I'm running Win 7 64-bit, and it plays perfectly fine. Go buy it now!

I play it on Windows 7. Where did you read that there's not support for Win 7? Actually, don't tell me, I'd rather my copy not hear that and stop working.

I can confirm that Dosbox runs fine on Windows 7. Unless this version isn't the dos version.

This version is a native windows version but I can confirm so far as I've run through the first scene that it does indeed work on Windows 7.

Oh memories...I remember being scared shitless from that lion/monster thing in the beginning.

Or the one tooth poison leaches

THANK YOU for called it "Another World". I used to play this on Amiga all the time, but the game kept crashing after the colliseum spaceship ejector-seat part. =P

Just to piss you off, I'm going to call it "Out of this World."

No Windows 7 support by now is a crime, especially considering the Steam data showing more gamers running Win 7 than Vista.

7 supports anything that Vista supports, and even some things it doesn't.

Dont remember much about this game except for the fact that it was too friggin' hard for a 5-year-old(?) me. I got annoyed with it after two hours and made my dad drive back to the store to trade it back in.
So, lets have another go at it, shall we?

Heh, that's cute. The was pretty much a trial and error game, which would explain the difficulty factor. Sometimes you'd just run in a direction and all of a sudden you're dead.

Hah, I had this game when I was about 10 or 12, finished it in about three (brutally punishing) days, played through it about 10 more times after that. Just an incredible game for the time. I never did care for Heart of the Alien though, checked it out a few years back and I could barely get past the first 8 screens. Seemed a lot more punishing and finicky than the original for some reason.

... I want this, but my main gaming PC is running Windows 7.

This is... unpleasant, and a great example of why I prefer console gaming to PC gaming.

"Shagittarius @ Mar 18th 2010 4:05PM
This version is a native windows version but I can confirm so far as I've run through the first scene that it does indeed work on Windows 7."

@Doctor John Smith :

Oh, delightful! Judging by the time stamps he posted that after me though, so I don't feel entirely stupid- just excited to get home and download it. :)

This game is super awesome.
I went back to play it the other day, thinking "I'm an adult now, I should be able to figure out what I couldn't when I was 10." Nope.
I need to bust this out again with a FAQ, to get past the section I got stuck at both times.

Top ten game right here. Insta-buy for the umpteenth time, can't put a price on my childhood after all.

Get on securing Heart of Darkness next, will you GOG? So very under appreciated, plays nice with AW and Oddworld.

Also, Flashback. That should have been obvious, hopefully that's in the pipeline as well.

Flashback!

Thanks! I was trying to remember the name of that one. Totally great frackin' game!

Somebody say Flashback?

Awesome game. There was a sequel called "Heart of the Alien" where you play as the alien and it included "Another World". Good old Sega CD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_the_Alien

One of the main reasons I bought a Sega CD system a few years ago was to play Heart of the Alien (that, plus Snatcher and a few others.. Sega CD wasn't a total failure, hah). Fantastic game, but I still enjoyed Another World (Out of This World) better.

So many fond memories of Another World. Rolling in the tunnels hoping not to get crushed by sand coming down, putting up the shields with your going when in laser fire fights, going into the arena with the tank and wrecking havoc.

I would also love a release of Flashback too. I loved both those games growing up.

Doh. Putting up shields with your gun when in laser fights.

I agree, where the hell is the PSN/XBL support? I don't play games an awful lot on my laptop (not to mention it's Windows 7) but I'd buy the game in an instant if it appeared on the PlayStation Store.

"but still no support for you early Windows 7 adopters"

You know, the OS has been released for 5 months, right?

BTW, the special edition of the game has been available for years. It runs natively under Windows XP, and runs in high-resolution modes. What you see above is a pic of it. The 15th anniverary was actually in 2006.

http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/index.htm

Wow. I remember playing a very short demo of this back when it was brand new. I never bought the full game, though (I seem to remember being too busy with Wolfenstein 3-D and The Legacy: Realm of Terror). I might give it a shot this time.

I know I played this game. I thought I played it on the 3DO.

...for some reason I thought it was called Fade to Black. (or Fade 2 Black?)

Fade to black was actually a sequel to Flashback. A game that played and looked a whole lot like Another World but had no relations besides that.

I bought Fade to Black on release day cuz I love Flashback so much. Man, that was such a disappointment...I don't think I got past the first area.

ahh yes Flashback was it. Fade 2 Black was the crappy 3d sequel? I think I played that too and it sucked.

Wow, really?

I've owned like 4 or 5 Genesis carts of Flashback over the years, and I never even knew it had a sequel.

Doesn't sound like I missed much, though.

I used to play this game a lot back ing the day, on my Amiga 500. It's still one of my best gaming memories to date.

I still remember the feeling of awe i had when i first watched the intro to the game, it was so mind blowing visually at that time, animations where fluid, just looked damn good.

Such a great game.

This game was so surreal, so exciting, and so believable that I actually panicked like never before when that black silhouette of a beast chased me. Man, talk about good old times, what a classic!

The intro of that diary log got me hooked straight away along with the music... wow.

This has been up on the original developer's site for years (for pretty much the same price, as I recall). It's nice to see it added to the GOG.com collection where people can see it.

You can also play heart of the alien on your pc..

http://file.sh/download/He/Heart-Of-The-Alien-Setup-(with-Fusion-3.51-emulator).235935.html

Probably illegal though

My apologies for posting that last link for HOTA, wasn't sure if that was legal or not...I loved this game, gonna buy it from GOG. Is it the graphically enhanced version?

The anniversary edition *should* contain both the updated and classic graphics. It's been awhile since I've tried the demo, though, so someone else could probably confirm.

EVERYONE: THE GAME WORKS FINE ON WINDOWS 7.

That is all.

I haven't bought anything from gog for awhile, it looks like it's time to rectify that.

I've replayed this game so often, I can finish it in under an hour, but I still love it to death. I just wish it were on XBLA or PSN instead.

Ok wait, wasn't this HD version released for free, a few years back? I think I even read about it here on Joystiq, but it could've been somewhere else.

No, it's never been free.

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