Yesssss Renegade Ops! For free! (credit: Sega)
In an attempt to remind PC gamers about its gaming back catalog of the past few years, Sega’s PR team launched a campaign called “Make War, Not Love” last week. While this giveaway centered around free DLC for a trio of PC games, the campaign garnered more attention for its wholesale giveaways of unrelated Sega games that simply required showing up and submitting an e-mail address.
The campaign concluded on Saturday with its primary, popularity-contest portion swinging in the direction of Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II. Players of that game will receive free DLC in the near future. Anyone else can currently show up to the site and sign up for a Steam code which, upon redemption, will grant full access to a trio of freebies: Viking: Battle for Asgard, Gunstar Heroes, and Renegade Ops.
Renegade Ops launch trailer
Two of those count among the greatest co-op blasting games of all time—at least, in this humble author’s opinion. 2011’s Renegade Ops is a delightful, twin-stick retread of the ’80s action game Jackal, as it asks two players to drive suped-up, gun-mounted four-by-fours and blow up archetypal terrorists. Meanwhile, 1993’s Gunstar Heroes needs little introduction for any Mega Drive or Genesis owner, but if you’ve never played it, this frenetic, side-scrolling shooter really put game studio Treasure on the map, which was formed by ex-Konami staffers to make some of the craziest video games of the ’90s.
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