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Rating Reviewed by: Thomas J. Earl(Unregistered User)
Review Date April 14, 2003
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Visitors rate this review 4.75 of 5,
16 votes
Review NaN of 43
, from Yorkshire, England
Price Paid:
$5.00
from ebay
Summary: I first got my hands on xcom apocalypse when a friend of mine gave it to me in 1998. I was at the time using an old 486 and it took ten minutes just to load up the tactical missions. Nevertheless, I was hooked in a few hours. The game was then unlike anything I'd seen before and I still rate it as one of the best games I've ever played. Once I got a new computer, I went on ebay and found a bloke down south somewhere selling it for a fiver. When it arrived I played it every day for a month, finally completing it. (Something I never managed before). Summary? Absolutely amazing.
Summary: I really didn't like Apocalypse, was horrible compare to TFTD and Defense. Things I liked about Defense are the aliens, they were all pretty cool, with all different aspects, and all little differences, same with TFTD, but in Apocalypse, the aliens were terrifyingly HORRIBLE, I hated this slug type crap monsters, I used to like researching aliens weapons and using them, but these new weapons from the aliens were retarded...Then since I got sick of actually playing the game to try to achieve the goal, each battle seemed the same and was quite retarded...Cheated to see the end alien planet, and you have to invade each of their buildings, it was way too boring.
Summary: I fully agree with the negative reviews about the aliens and sphere. I really found those aliens dumb looking, but you have to look over that. I am a big X-com 1 vetaran, X-com 2 should have been a sequel, nothing wrong about it, but it was just the same again. X-com 3 goes deeper then X-com 1, in X-com 3 you really get to know your troops, who or what they are good at. They are much more natural. They actually improved the game by taking you control over a city defend team, it is much more important to keep the companies happy then countries in the first series. If you don't keep them happy you might lose the ability of buying certain wapons you need. You really get the feeling the city is alive, you see police cars figthing gangs and stuff like that. The combat system is much more improved, a machine gun is now really a machine gun, you click with your aimer on an alien, click on the mouse, hold it down for a while and you see 30 bullets flying at the alien. Improved AI, better way you can organize your troops and there is much more action. Look, X-com wasn't scray at clear day, was it? I think if they did the music a little better in X-com 3, made night missions, added some sphere and the game would be just as good as 1. My conclusion is: X-com 1 is an exellent game a true classic, X-com is a good successor, the game might have lost things, but much more things have been improved or added. Get a demo of you like x-com 1, or when you see X-com 3 for only 10 bucks, grap it and try it.
Summary: The other day I was searching through Computer City, looking for something worthwile to play. Then I came across a box marked 'X-com 3-pack'. I freaked. Oh my god! X-com! The first one! I remember my long nights sitting at my computer, whipping some Sectiod ass in a terror mission in some God-Forsaken country. I quickly grabbed the box and darted to the checkout. When I got back to my house I noticed that the box was indeed a 3-pack. I flippled it over and saw that the box contained X-com 2, I shuddered. Baaaaddd game. There was also X-com 3. I'd never heard of X-com 3 before, so I installed it and played it. After the first mission I realized what a crappy game this was. I mean, the Aliens ranged from big, pink elephant-things to small,orange chest-bursters. To put it bluntly, the game sucked. I'll stick with X-com 1 for now, hopefully X-com Alliance will be better than this...
Summary: I have to admit I was disappointed. As a stand alone game, it is a pretty good one. Deep and strategic like the first one, with a solid combat system and new features that, although they border on tedious micromanagement, are interesting enough to keep even the most astute gamer thinking at all times. Where this game falters is in the atmosphere. The original X-Com: UFO Defense, was and is one of the greatest games ever to emerge for the PC. It had an unbeatable atmosphere and creepy music, as well as an epic story and massive gaming field. In this one, you defend a single city. Not the kind of unbeatable tone that made the first one a classic. A solid game, but not a great one by any stretch of the imagination.
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