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RE: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Remake
March 6, 2012 at 2:32 pm
(March 6, 2012 at 1:29 pm)Chuff Wrote: Turn based strategy games... Not exactly the coolest genre I admit.
But of all the games I have ever played, I think Xcom must be my absolute favourite and is responsible for far too many wasted hours of my life - I played the sequels, the prequels and the spin offs, but the original is king.
I was slightly apprehensive when I heard a while back that it was being remade, but the apprehension was tinged with quiet confidence as the remake is being handled by Firaxis.
I have just watched a video featuring the new version and might have wee'd myself slightly in excitement.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-0...udget-game
Curious, did you ever try any of the open source remakes? Can't remember the name now, but one of them was basically a graphical face-lift for X-Com. Used the original data files & such.
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RE: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Remake
March 7, 2012 at 6:42 am
Holy Moly, I must confess to dismissing this quite some time ago as "likely to ruin the original modern take". But now you have me all moist too!
Going to keep a closer eye on this now.
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RE: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Remake
March 7, 2012 at 2:01 pm
UFO: Enemy Unknown (as the original UK version is known) is an all-time classic - how can they even think of remaking it? It had better be a damn good remake, this is sacred ground they're treading on!
Slightly more seriously, this is perhaps one of the greatest games ever released. Sort of like chess with aliens and plasma rifles. My mate and I used to play it literally for hours on end (and I do mean literally; the Amiga would go on in the morning and we'd still be playing it when the Sun came up the next morning). I found the PC version somewhere on the web ages ago and I still play it occasionally, though not for quite so long. I only hope this big budget remake really does what they're claiming; I'd hate to see it suffer the same fate as Planet of the Apes after Tim Burton got hold of it.
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RE: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Remake
March 8, 2012 at 4:39 am
I'm glad the makers decide to stay true to the game play of the old series, unlike some other franchise I don't want to mention cough*syndicate*couch.
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RE: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Remake
March 8, 2012 at 5:11 am
Absolutely, that really was painful. I've been trying to suppress the memory.
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