UFO: Extraterrestrials Comments by Kieron Gillen
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DanWhitehead
15/07/07 @ 08:12
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Always nice to see some Gollop love. "Britain's answer to Sid Meier" - absolutely perfect (ideal world) description.
I keep dreaming that one day I'll wake up and Chaos will have been ported to XBLA... |
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deepmenace
15/07/07 @ 08:27
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chaos, yes!
or even lords of chaos, i still remember sending a harpy half way across the map to retrieve a magic mushroom then having him toss it back into the hands of my wiz :-) |
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Ocrovastru
15/07/07 @ 10:19
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Chaos! Good call there amte. One of my top games ever, of all time.
If that gets ported to live with full multiplayer I would wet myself. |
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UFO: Enemy Unknown still stands up as a playable, quality game today, and on some of the harder difficulty settings is a proper challenge. I am playing through it again at the moment... on and off.
I've been over to the UFO: ET forums, and the general consensus does seem to be that in order to play the game, there are some fairly extensive mods that need to be in place. You can download and play CHAOS on a spectrum emulator from here |
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AaronTurner
15/07/07 @ 11:55
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Wait, is this the sequel or is there another sequel on Steam? And will this work on a pc with an abysmal graphics car. GeForce 2 MX, no shit.
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It isn't an official sequel, it is basically a 're-imagining' of the first game made primarily by two guys who are big fans.
No word on a proper sequel yet. I think you can get it from Steam, or there are other ways of being able to buy it available on its website: http://www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/ on their 'news' page. edit: the matrixgames download gives details of system spec requirements: http://www.matrixgames.com/games/game.as...
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YourMessageHere
15/07/07 @ 16:15
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By revealing your secret horde of Amiga Power archives you have made me very happy. Still the greatest periodical in the history of life on earth. Thankyou, Mr Kieron Gillen. Also, nice review.
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What a load of superfluous rubbish at the start, the review could have been cut down to one page if he cut the crap.
The bad points he mentioned are actually good - one of the huge issues I had with the original series was the use of costly Time Units just for getting a grenade from my belt. Also, I hated losing a veteran soldier at the end stages of a mission just because of a rogue alien, so you could say this forgiving model is far less annoying. Mistakes are just temporary. And it sounds like if you fail the mission completely, you lose them all, so it's just what I (and I suspect, veterans of the series, want). Only gripes are the lack of map and inability to buy new recruits. |
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The game is highly moddable, which is a plus. The negative is that you MUST mod it for it to become...just okay.
The game's not bad, and its heart is in the right place, but the interface is clunky as hell, it doesn't have any of the nifty gadgets of the VERY FIRST X-Com/Ufo game (like motion detectors, mines, flares etc), and you are expected to embark on a TON of same-y missions. Unless a mega-fan-mod of epic proportions comes out, I'd rather just play the original game. Still. You'd think someone would improve on a game that came out in the 90s... |
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BremXJones
16/07/07 @ 10:33
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Re: Chaos. Chaos remains in my top 5 games ever. It on XBox Live would be glorious.
Re: Avaloner. Hell, yes. Writing for AP was like being asked to join the Beatles. Re: Chtulie. Sometimes I like to throw them a few scraps. KG |
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MrChuckles
16/07/07 @ 10:58
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One of my mates at work was playing the original X-Com on his PC, so i lent him Jagged Alliance 2 on friday. This morning he said he didn't leave his house all weekend!
Now, if someone could combine the personality of JA2 with the scope of X-com, it'd be awesome. I have a design for a H P Lovecraft game set from the 1890's through to the 1950's, now if i can just be bothered to make it :-) |
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Rebelstar 2 coincided with my GCSEs, and it was sheer luck that I managed to pass any of them at the time. Nothing more hardcore than a computer opponent that can shoot haflway across the map through pixel-wide gaps between bushes.
It would be mental if the Gollops could work their magic on the DS or a live XBox version. |
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BremXJones
20/07/07 @ 10:34
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I didn't notice this bit:
"Also, I hated losing a veteran soldier at the end stages of a mission just because of a rogue alien, so you could say this forgiving model is far less annoying. Mistakes are just temporary. And it sounds like if you fail the mission completely, you lose them all, so it's just what I (and I suspect, veterans of the series, want)." The important difference, which I thought I mentioned in the review, was that you can't actually buy new soldiers as you could in X-COM. So if you fail a mission in X-Com, you can spend money to get some men back in the field, so continue the game, in this one, if you fail a mission - and lose men - you simply can't. You're stuck waiting for new people to turn up, which is fairly slow. KG |
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