Comments on: All Of X-Com For Cheap

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:24:08 +0000

“Meh, whether you steal from UFO loons or from H. P. Lovecraft really doesn’t make a big difference.”

Yeah it does, HP Lovecraft is much more entertaining.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:57:30 +0000

I may add:

- The black market is your friend. Really, what do a coulpe thousand laser rifles in the hands of potentially untrustworthy people mean when the alien menace is averted? So if you need money – and you need money – just hire a couple of engineers and find out what the most profitable and easiest to reproduce future tech is, then sell it big time.

You will probably want to set up a base just for that later. I kid you not.

By: jaguth

jaguth — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:16:13 +0000

X-COM: UFO Unknown is one of my all-time favorite video games. It is one of the most difficult games I have ever played. It played it, in total, for at least 100 hours. I had the Playstation version, which had an insanely terrifying soundtrack that perfectly extended the spooky atmosphere. If your playing X-COM: UFO for the first time, you MUST download the soundtrack and play it with the game.

The best advice I can give is for newbies for the early game:

- Your squad will drop like flies unarmored. You will not have any armor in the beginning, so always save enough time points for a snapshot during the Alien’s turn. Also, your weapons suck, so grenades are your friend.

- Do not install a large radar detector until you are ready. Once you do, there will be about 5x the amount of UFOs you have to deal with.

- During night terror missions, go slow. A civilian is worth less than a marine; worry about your marine’s safety first.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:40:18 +0000

Meh, whether you steal from UFO loons or from H. P. Lovecraft really doesn’t make a big difference.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:25:18 +0000

The enemies are also way better.. boo to greys and yay to aquatoids!

By: Fitzmogwai

Fitzmogwai — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:07:12 +0000

TFTD is still my favourite of the lot, despite the many, varied and entertaining logical inconsistencies.

Want to throw a grenade 50 metres while underwater? No problem! How about swimming about in the sea? No way!

It’s a tough challenge, but it’s atmospheric, the music’s spooky and the graphics are clearer than UFO.

By: CdrJameson

CdrJameson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:30:06 +0000

Ooh, UFO for the first time is a tricky one.

If you know too much about UFO then it can spoil a lot of (nasty, fun) surprises. The best bet is to just learn the controls (how to move, shoot, crouch, research and opportunity fire) and leave it at that.

DON’T look up the opposition AT ALL – They’re supposed to be alien and mysterious.

Oh, to be able to play this again for the first time…

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:20:28 +0000

“I’m surprised that no one has mentioned how ridiculously difficult TFTD(the second XCom) is!”

I did!

It was the firt game I played in the series too, when it was released and I was 13, loved it to bits. I didn’t play UFO till about 5 years later and finished it on my first go, having never completed TFTD (but gotten pretty far). I much prefer the setting of TFTD though.

By: lePooch

lePooch — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:19:50 +0000

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned how ridiculously difficult TFTD(the second XCom) is! As a sixteen year old, I plain just gave up and moved on.

The best way to preserve your sanity is to avoid playing that installment until the very end. Any game that comes with a game killing research bug as standard practice is SCARY

By: sbs

sbs — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:05:39 +0000

Paul: you can get the manual of the individual game's store page (clicky here), it includes a tutorial for getting started, it is quite helpful. Go windowed mode by Alt+Entering and work through it.

By: sbs

sbs — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:58:40 +0000

ok something is broken i will try a new post

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:43:03 +0000

Bought them myself, but a “X-COM for Dummies” guide would be a great idea. Even the beginner’s guide on the UFOpaedia site was not dummy enough for me.