Comments on: it’s x-com, but not as we know it

By: mj

mj — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:23:45 +0000

£8.99 on Steam for 5 games seems reasonable.

It’s crying out for an iPad UI too…

By: Burkey

Burkey — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:20:28 +0000

Nice post John – I remember playing the demo of UFO on a coverdisk years ago, but didn’t really understand what was happening (I was very young at the time).

Thanks for the comments too, I think I’m going to give this series a go as well when I get the time. A friend of mine has long been a huge fan of these games and I always meant to give them a try.

By: mj

mj — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:02:41 +0000

I wasn’t a gamer at the time these games were coming out – and it wasn’t because of the Mac thing It was more because I wasn’t a gamer. I was busy writing backgrounds, scenarios, characters, plots for tabletop roleplaying games and never really looked at what computers could bring to the experience – mostly because, being pre-internet, I was more interested in gaming with humans.

Now – for my own proto-game company I’m interested in real-time and turn-by-turn squad-based tactics and strategy games.

So…where can I get X-COM: Enemy Unknown….

By: John Girvin

John Girvin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:06:26 +0000

I'll second Glenn's choice of games there. Start with UFO Defense, move on to Terror From The Deep, then skip the rest and wait for the new game. For what it's worth, Terror From The Deep seemed a lot more difficult than the first game. Did anyone ever play any of the UFO:Aftershock series?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:20:43 +0000

@Lee: Grab XCOM: UFO Defense (I thought Enemy Unknown was a much better name) and XCOM: Terror From The Deep – these were the ones that Julian Gollop was directly involved with. Apocalypse and later weren’t quite as engrossing, and the spin-off shooter/sim games (Interceptor, Enforcer, etc.) are pretty weak.

I’m not holding my breath based on a fairly insubstantial screenshot though, as much as I have faith in the new team developing it (2K Marin – last game: Bioshock 2).

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:17:48 +0000

Is X-COM anything like Rebelstar. I use to play that (and Rebelstar 2) on the spectrum all the time, and consider those to be 2 of the best games ever made. X-COM seems to have slipped by me since I never owned a pc until 1998. If I were to buy one of these games on Steam, which one would you recommend?