UFO: Aftershock Previews

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What the FUCK!?! This is...odd. I have no idea how this "singles" company got our household information, but they were all asking if there was anyone over the age of 18, and single in the household.

I was like: "Oh, shi! NO!!!!"

I HATE TELEMARKETERS.

OK, Aftermath was definitely a B-grade game, and it had some problems, but overall I thought it was pretty fun. But that game was produced under some pretty crappy circumstances (if you read their diaries) because of the transferred game, publisher problems etc. Now, they have the problems of Aftermath behind them, and they have a publisher with them all the way for this game. Aftershock will be much better. They will learn from their mistakes, and it's always good to have a consistent flow of money. All I am saying is, don't just judge Aftershock by Aftermath. I think this game is going to surprise a lot of people.

Aftermath sucked large....

They took out all the cool Micro-Management of the bases...
(Which was the most fun part)

And failed in the attempt to make the combat more fun.
(RealTime combat sucked.. stick with the Turn-Based)
(Couldn't enter buildings?!? The best part was opening your own hole in the wall with a gun/sword and attacking from different angles and levels with jet packs)

The makers of this didn't have a CLUE what made Xcom so much fun to play.

I really hope this is better than the last. I have X-COM CE installed and still play it from time to time, and although I love X-COM no matter what, the claustrophobic interface is harder for me to deal with nowadays.

I'd love to see the source for the old X-COM games get released like Doom and various other games, the things people have done with it to improve the games is awesome. X-COM deserves just as much.

They're making a sequel to that POS? =(

Better be a remake of X-COM...