[deathspeed]

https://30years.ubi.com/en-US/operation-index

"To celebrate Ubisoft's 30th anniversary, The Ubisoft Club is offering you seven digital PC games. Every month a new game will be revealed and free to download. Then its yours to keep!
Hurry up, the game is available for a limited time." 

You have to use a Uplay account, but hey, the game is free!

[FrikgFeek]

You can also get it on GOG for 3.5€ or 4$. I would definitely consider paying that much to avoid using uplay.

[NGTM-1R]

If I wanted to use uplay...

...why would I want to use uplay?

[deathspeed]

Kind of like Origin - I was already forced to have Uplay for H.A.W.X.2  , so I might as well take advantage of it to get free games.   

[AdmiralRalwood]

Well, I already have a UPlay account, so I claimed it, but damned if I'll actually install the client in order to download the game; I already own it on Steam and GOG, in addition to the original PS2 version, and I would rather dust off the PS2 and deal with its 480p resolution than install the UPlay client.

[Klaustrophobia]

I had a REALLY old Ubisoft account converted to a uplay account for me back when they started it up.  I found out when I installed rocksmith and discovered it required uplay, and when I tried to sign up it told me I already had an account.  I'm pretty sure the old game was the original Far Cry.  That's how hard they are trying to behavior track us.  Still, never had to install the uplay client itself until... I think it was one of the Assassin's Creeds that I bought FROM ****ING STEAM double downed on the DRM clients.  This reminds me I need to go make sure I got it fully un-installed.

I claimed it, but won't install it unless I can find a way to defeat the client requirement.

[FrikgFeek]

Not sure what you mean by "defeat the client requirements". There's only 1 way to get rid of uplay requirements and it's not exactly legal.

[MP-Ryan]

1.  Not installing uplay trash.
2.  Sands of Time had atrocious controls on PC.  Some sections were basically unplayable with keyboard and mouse.  Pass.

[FrikgFeek]

You know, you can just use a gamepad instead. You can buy some pretty good ones for like 10€ nowadays.

[CP5670]

I have the old retail version of Sands of Time and don't think it had any DRM at all. Same goes for Far Cry and the first two Splinter Cells. I generally don't like these third-person melee games with checkpoint saves though, and find games like Assassin's Creed irritating and not fun to play even though they have good ideas.

[FrikgFeek]

Sands of time had standard CD DRM for the time, it won't run unless disc 2 is inserted.