XCOM : Enemy Unknown - by Firaxis Games - Thread

The reaction fire of the aliens could be pretty brutal, especially walking in the door of a UFO with either no armor or Personal Armor.

The amount of men you could lose! :D

I used to try and play it such that I would save it on my first turn of a tactical encounter, and apart from that accept the consequences...

Needless to say on terror missions you could quite easily lose half of the team trying to get out of the damn skyranger, especially if one of those cyberdiscs was nearby, the explosion when you eventually kill them is lethal!
 
DutchSchaeffer said:
The reaction fire of the aliens could be pretty brutal, especially walking in the door of a UFO with either no armor or Personal Armor.

The amount of men you could lose! :D

I used to try and play it such that I would save it on my first turn of a tactical encounter, and apart from that accept the consequences...

Needless to say on terror missions you could quite easily lose half of the team trying to get out of the damn skyranger, especially if one of those cyberdiscs was nearby, the explosion when you eventually kill them is lethal!
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Cyberdiscs owning your entire team before they've even left the ship is one of the PUREST sources of video game rage there has ever been.
 
DutchSchaeffer said:
I used to try and play it such that I would save it on my first turn of a tactical encounter, and apart from that accept the consequences...
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I used to do this too.

Also at the start of each turn and the end, if things weren't going my way - reload, still loved the game.

I too would like a remake thats the same but prettier, hopefully I'm old enough to play properly now.
 
I got about 5 X-COM games in my Steam library, I think I bought them in a Steam Sale.
 
Jokester said:
Was the original Microprose?
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Mythos Games pitched the idea to Microprose, who supplied artists and asked Mythos to flesh out the game a bit more. The result was that the Geoscape was added, along with research and all that good stuff :)

Mythos previous game was Laser Squad, the precursor to UFO.
 
I posted this in another thread but it might be more apt here...

For those who have enjoyed playing the X-Com games you might want to check out the Gold version of UFO Extra Terrestrials...

http://ufo.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/

the second version is supposedly due out soon, albeit delayed a couple of times already...

http://www.ufo2extraterrestrials.com/

the Gold version of the game comes with the lite edition of the B-Man mod which gives makes lots of improvements over the vanilla game.
The non-gold version allows you to add the full B-Man mod which includes "X-Com Alien Invasion" or "Combat Sounds" which I guess they had to remove from the gold one due to copyright issues.
The full B-man's mod can't be added to the Gold version.

It has its limitations / issues and seems to be a Marmite game but I have liked playing it a lot.

Other mods etc can be found here..

http://ufo-scene.com/plugins/forum/forum.php

I am really looking forward to the Firaxis game but I would rather them not do it at all if they screw this one up.
 
I must be out of the loop, as I only stumbled upon this five minutes ago. Totally unexpected! :eek:

At least I can now ignore that 1960's reboot nonsense and aim my fanboy cannons directly on this version and set them to 'over hyped' ;)
 
My favourite childhood game, remade and coming to console near you.

This will be a total noobfest. I bet soldiers are immortal, and you only have a single base, with no financial aspect whatsoever.

This is our game, and we've been hoping for one for over 15 years. Why make it for consoles? They already have a FPS coming there way that no self respecting fan of the series even gives a toss about.
 
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Smokey Deza said:
My favourite childhood game, remade and coming to console near you.

This will be a total noobfest. I bet soldiers are immortal, and you only have a single base, with no financial aspect whatsoever.

This is our game, and we've been hoping for one for over 15 years. Why make it for consoles? They already have a FPS coming there way that no self respecting fan of the series even gives a toss about.
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Dont Jinx it.

Please please please dont ruin it.

This is the only game which made me rage like that fat german kid.
 
I would love this to be a pretty much straight up copy with better graphics, would be purchasing it and having a lark all over again.

I loved this game soooooooo much, devoured hours of my life!
 
Ethereal mind-controlling a blaster launcher guy inside your drop-ship (with most of the men inside is pretty much the worst thing that can happen.

Apart from 2seconds later when you realise you have not saved it for 7 hours..........
 
Are those x-box controls on those screenshots?.

If so this game is going to suck.

Think of the Halo RTS.
 
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