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Metalogic · 02-24-15, 05:20 PM

Juist seen your thread. Amazon UK seems to sell a number of different versions of SHIII from different publishers and released in different years, is there a particular one to look out for? Are some better than others (e.g. already patched, no stupid Starforce copy protection)?

e.g. this one (released 2006) is only 68p!: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Hunte...dp/B000FUCGDY/

But this one is £18, but released much later (2010): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Hunte...dp/B0035ER6F0/

I'm guessing the 2010 release would be the better one to get? It's alot for an old game, though, especially as is only £6.99 on Steam...

The Steam version worries me as it doesn't sound fully moddable (can't change .exe etc.)

Would I be able to copy the game files onto another computer (with an optical drive), then copy these to my gaming PC and install that way?

02-24-15, 05:20 PM	#2
Metalogic Loader Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 81 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Juist seen your thread. Amazon UK seems to sell a number of different versions of SHIII from different publishers and released in different years, is there a particular one to look out for? Are some better than others (e.g. already patched, no stupid Starforce copy protection)? e.g. this one (released 2006) is only 68p!: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Hunte...dp/B000FUCGDY/ But this one is £18, but released much later (2010): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Hunte...dp/B0035ER6F0/ I'm guessing the 2010 release would be the better one to get? It's alot for an old game, though, especially as is only £6.99 on Steam... The Steam version worries me as it doesn't sound fully moddable (can't change .exe etc.) Would I be able to copy the game files onto another computer (with an optical drive), then copy these to my gaming PC and install that way?