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Geek Culture / UFO: Extraterrestrials

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Fallout
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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 13:59
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Have any oldskool XCOM fans been following this? It basically looks like an XCOM: Enemy Unknown remake, almost completely true to the original. It seems to play in exactly the same way. The only difference is the planet, the technology/research items and obviously updated graphics.

I'm not sure if it'll survive well in todays game market without much innovation, but I'm definitely gonna give it a bash.

www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com


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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 15:22
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X-com is probably my all time favorite game. This looks like it is doing it justice! Thanks for the link Fallout! I'll definately be keeping an eye on this one.

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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 15:38
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No problem matey. It's good to see another who appreciates the original as much as me. Btw, I also read somewhere that this one will introduce police and army units, so there might be an extra level of AI interference in Terror Town missions and perhaps alien crash sites. No doubt rookie cops will go bezerk as they panic and shoot as much at your troops as they do at the aliens!

Personally, I think the original gameplay will still work today, and all it needed was a kick up the arse graphics wise. Just a bit of spit and polish. Apparently this will have alien structures, golf courses, and lots of other set pieces for crash sites. Basically much more rich environments. And it's due out on the 1st of May I think!

Now just trying to find somewhere to order from.


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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 15:57
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The gameplay is what I liked about it most. I always thought that style of gameplay offered a really cool way of doing a multiplayer play-by-email game.

My friend and I spent countless nights playing "X-com: UFO Defense". I'll never forget when X-Com 2 was released. My friend and I were taking a couple of girls out (we were supposed to go to the movies). We had some time to kill before the movie started so we stopped at the mall. We, of coarse, had to go into the game store. Then we saw it: "X-Com 2: Terror from the Deep"! We had no idea that they were even MAKING a sequel and there it was on the store shelf. We probably jumped up and down like little girls when we saw it. Anyway, we bought the game then took the girls straight home (skipping the movie) and played all night. Ahhh... the good old days

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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 20:00
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Quote: "Anyway, we bought the game then took the girls straight home (skipping the movie) and played all night."


They can't have been that good lookin' then!

Definitely agree mate. XCOM would be great for that sort of thing. It'd make a good game over the LAN/net aswell. But anyway, the more I think about it, the more I think the gameplay will be fine for modern games.

Games really have not innovated that much since then. Graphics have come on leaps and bounds, as has sound, physics etc etc. but the fundamental gameplay aspects have not changed. I think the depth of gameplay will still be twice as deep as most games today.

Defo on my purchase list! Infact, I bloody want it now!!!!


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The dude guy
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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 20:58
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Looks like a good game, does anyone have a link to where I could download the original version?
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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 21:53
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Don't think it was released as freeware ever. It's a DOS 3.1 era game, and I really struggled to get it working on Win95, and when I did, the sound was messed up. So dunno if you could even get it runnin!


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Moondog
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Posted: 25th Apr 2007 21:58
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this looks very good, and X-com is one of the greatest games of all time i think i'll purchase this when it's released in may.

i actually have a 333mhz comp with windows 3.1, with X-com, Mechwarrior 2(plus exp), and Duke Nukeum 3D installed when ever i get tired of playing crappy next gen games, i warm up my comp and play, lol

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Posted: 27th Apr 2007 07:55
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I think it's on Gametap--- not 100% positive but a little sure.

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Posted: 8th May 2007 17:55
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Anyone picked this up? Should've been released now. I'm gonna see if I can find somewhere to buy it from and give it a bash.


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Posted: 9th May 2007 05:51
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Quote: "Don't think it was released as freeware ever. It's a DOS 3.1 era game, and I really struggled to get it working on Win95, and when I did, the sound was messed up. So dunno if you could even get it runnin!"


If any of your old DOS games don't work, try DOSBox. I've had a lot of success with it in the past - especially with some of the old Westwood titles like Kyrandia - which I just love.

Whatever happened to the good old Point and Click adventure...

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