XCOM: Enemy Unknown

[Guest]

When I saw someone play the old X-COM: UFO Defense I knew that I was going to love that game. I found it on Steam and have a complete playtime of over 90 hours. I loved the original X-COM.

 

Now I heard of the remaking of the old X-COM game and I was immediately extremely excited. I prepurchased it on Stream and It came out yesterday (Oct. 12). I've played it a lot now and it really lives up to my expectations. Like the original it's filled with strategy and intense turn-based battles. It got some cool new mechanics too like cover, abilities and a much wider array of content like weapons, researches and base facilities.

 

So have any other bronies here played the original XCOM? Have anyone played the new XCOM? What do you think about it?

[Aberyst 18]

I haven't played the new OR the original one, so I can't exactly be too relevant now =/

I've seen TB play a little of it and it reminds me of Metal Gear Acid. I dunno how popular that game was but I loved it, and if XCOM is anything like it I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy that too. I'ma go watch some gameplay, see if I might like it maybe...

[Dimitri Hammer 3,645]

I played the original and loved the heck out of it. I haven't played the newest one though. It looks good in my opinion I just hope it plays similar and looks good. (And I can name my men after friends.....and me...)

[Guest]

I played the original and loved the heck out of it. I haven't played the newest one though. It looks good in my opinion I just hope it plays similar and looks good. (And I can name my men after friends.....and me...)

 

I would say it's quite similar. Combat is a bit different but mostly because of smaller squad size and the cover feature. I find those to be good features though

 

The customization of soldiers have been made way better. You can choose first and last name and a nickname. You can choose skin colour, hair colour and style, armour colour, face and even voice. The only thing I kind of wanted to be able to change is the nationality but unfortunately you can't change that.