UFO: Aftershock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTjdVERWZm8&fmt=18
Posted July 29, 2005 6:49 pm (by gametrailers.com)
Gameplay from UFO: Aftershock.

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Gaming

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• Turn-Based

[rankaratar]

All these X-COM remakes seem to be missing that campy B-movie style that took itself really seriously. Even with mercs in stupid purple armour they acted like Rambo.

[Bombargo333]

I miss my old aquanaut suit:D

[jrag1000]

The reason no other X-Com game will live up to the Original is because the First X-Com game was just that, the first time anyone had experienced anything like it. You can never make it feel the way it felt that first time even if a newer game is actually a better version of the original. Even with dated graphics and sound effects it will still seem like the only game of it's kind.

[maestro48239]

UFO: AI was real close to the original XCOM

[inlinesk8ter1]

Looks Awsome :D

[RunnerLP]

This is just agonizing for me. If you want to play a game that isn't called XCOM but is pretty darn close, play UFO Extraterrestrials.

[TheBlackSpiral]

@JustFYIgaming I'm under the impression that one of the things that made the original X-Com feel the way it did, was it's simplicity and the fact that it played on planet Earth, rather then some boring made-up dustball of a planet. This game isn't terrible. I did actually enjoy it, but it didn't manage to hold me. I'm something of a grahics whore, I'll admit, and visually I find this game hard to take serious. But I wouldn't say it's absolutely dreadful.

[IVI00101]

This have badder interface, than first X-Com.

[JustFYIgaming]

@TheBlackSpiral Well, it depends how u look at it. Naturally, if you are trying to reproduce your nostalgic experience you had with X-com, then it will not live up to your desires.

But if you take it for what it is, a further development of X-com, but simplified, I think you will enjoy it. I only started playing it a few weeks ago, bought it on sale at Gamersgate. I played X-com a bit first, then UFO:Extraterrestrials - I was surprised how similar it was.

[TheBlackSpiral]

@JustFYIgaming Yeah, I've played that and it certainly wasn't terrible, but still wasn't good enough. I haven't played it with that mod though, so perhaps I should look into the Gold edition anyway.

[JustFYIgaming]

@TheBlackSpiral There is a "remake" out. Came in 2007. It's called UFO: Extraterrestrials. If you consider getting it, get the Gold edition as it includes a mod, that makes the game more like X-Com.

[KethamBodds]

@Rushgoon1 Xenonauts ?