XCOM Enemy Unknown

[Mr E]

davepoth said:

150% accuracy on snap shots and 255 time units helped a lot too.

Not as much as a large supply of radio controlled flying nukes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlRd9M4mH8o

Can you tell I liked the blaster launcher?

[JFReturns]

I completed the original a looong time ago on Playstation, still got the game and see they are going for strong money on Ebay! Recently played after getting all the X-Com games for a few quid on Steam.

Very excited about this!

[S13_Alan]

Just finished playing through the demo there and was impressed (it's on Steam).... will be ordering it in the next few days

[Shinobi]

S13_Alan said:

Just finished playing through the demo there and was impressed (it's on Steam).... will be ordering it in the next few days

Fancy doing a little comparison review for us?

[S13_Alan]

Shinobi said:

S13_Alan said:

Just finished playing through the demo there and was impressed (it's on Steam).... will be ordering it in the next few days

Fancy doing a little comparison review for us?

To the original you mean? If so, then I'm not really in a great position to as it was only one level after the tutorial one plus a tiny bit in the base. There's far more detailed stuff already written by guys who have played it, and first impressions suggest they are correct.

I think the demo is on fairly easy difficulty so didn't give a true sense of what it could be like as I got my guys through the level with no deaths. That sense of walking your guys through a level, trying to use cover, then spotting aliens, it's really quite tense. There was a moment I'm doing everything right then two floaters appear, and because of the height advantage they could see my whole squad and I crapped it. Thankfully they missed and I was able to take them out on the next turn. It was sectoids, floaters and thin men I was fighting.

[3sixty]

Ah didnt know the demo was out, will take a look tonight.

[Shinobi]

S13_Alan said:

Shinobi said:

S13_Alan said:

Just finished playing through the demo there and was impressed (it's on Steam).... will be ordering it in the next few days

Fancy doing a little comparison review for us?

To the original you mean? If so, then I'm not really in a great position to as it was only one level after the tutorial one plus a tiny bit in the base. There's far more detailed stuff already written by guys who have played it, and first impressions suggest they are correct.

I think the demo is on fairly easy difficulty so didn't give a true sense of what it could be like as I got my guys through the level with no deaths. That sense of walking your guys through a level, trying to use cover, then spotting aliens, it's really quite tense. There was a moment I'm doing everything right then two floaters appear, and because of the height advantage they could see my whole squad and I crapped it. Thankfully they missed and I was able to take them out on the next turn. It was sectoids, floaters and thin men I was fighting.

Cheers, that sounds great. So happy they have kept all the original races in although I will probably regret that when the Mutons turn up.

Really excited about playing this now.

[Mr E]

Mutons I can deal with. It's the bd crysilids that are nightmare spiders.

[WhiteBaron]

Pre- ordered on xbox , apparently I get a blonde flat top grunt as part of the elite soldier pack. Watched a few vids and really looking forward to some turn based action.

Oh and in the vid I saw (alien base) crysilids will be a right pita again!

[Mr E]

Shinobi said:

I may be late to the party but has anyone on Apple products purchased Aliens Vs Humans?

It actually is Enemy Unknown the original, it has the same graphics and time units and everything!

And now updated with full geoscape, multiple bases and research trees. Very nice indeed and worth the couple of quid.

[Shinobi]

Mr E said:

And now updated with full geoscape, multiple bases and research trees. Very nice indeed and worth the couple of quid.

Shocked at how good the recent free update is. Very much hooked!

[RobDickinson]

Looking forward to this

Played the demo on steam, fooking huge download! wonder if I have to redownload again.

plan on buying an eastern european steam cd key again for $20 or so lol. Love steam.

[Killboy]

Why am I at work right now?

[S13_Alan]

Done the pre download last night, think that's the biggest single download I've seen for a game at 12 gig or something. Still, roll on Thursday, can't wait

[Killboy]

S13_Alan said:

Done the pre download last night, think that's the biggest single download I've seen for a game at 12 gig or something. Still, roll on Thursday, can't wait

BF3 with all updates is 22gb

[Salgar]

Excited about this, haven't bought a game for a while, this will be the first of many this 'season'. I've also got so much work taking up all my time (so much time I won't be able to play the demo) until 3pm on Friday. At which point I will be visiting game and playing this for many hours.

[Happy82]

Played the demo (360) this morning, it's ace Very simple gameplay but fun and satisfying, brought back memories of when I played games as a youngster

[Johnnytheboy]

I was (and still am) a fan of X-Com Apocalypse - the real time one.

If this is any good, it might catalyse me to finally get a new PC.

[LandR]

My copy came today !

[JFReturns]

Just ordered on XBOX