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Andrew Gray schrieb:
> On 2005-05-12, Daniel "Naughty Tentacles" Blakemore 
> <Daniel.Blakemore@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 
>>UFO,
>>TFTD,
>>X-Com Apocalypse,
>>X-Com Interceptor
>>X-Com E-Mail (fun whilst it lasted ;)  )
>>...and a daft one featuring an X-Com android...  X-Com Aftermath, I think?
> 
> 
> Not Aftermath; something with an e? UFO:Aftermath might be the name
> you're remembering; a vaguely similar game from ~2003, but by most
> accounts fairly terrible. (I didn't buy it...)
> 
> Three "conventional" X-COM games, the first three, then they became "in 
> the same setting, but not the same game". 
> 
> If you want more in the same vein, finding a copy of Jagged Alliance 2
> is probably worthwhile. (There's the original game, then an extended
> "gold edition", and at least one complete mod available from the
> Internet ("Urban something"). Recommended. 

I already played JA2 and I didn't like it very much. And above all, it's 
very unlike XCOM.

> It was re-released a couple 
> of years back, so shouldn't be too hard to find; it's just a shade under 
> six years old now, so the graphics look a little aged, but certainly 
> more modern than the "proper" X-COM games. 

You can't compare graphics between two different genres.
But that's the problem with all the remakes of XCOM: Too good graphics.

> Misses the research option, 
> but slowly lets you get new hardware from the market, so the same 
> dynamic is there.

Well a research option would not fit into the story of JA2, where you 
play a group of soldiers (don't know the proper word) and not a secret 
organization.
> 
> In all honesty, I haven't seen a good game in the same style since JA2. 
> Which, damnit, I now want to play again...
> 
I can understand what you're meaning: As said above all the remakes of 
the good ole classics are too far away from them. Being a 
hobby-programmer, I'd appreciate it to have the sources of some games 
just to create an editor-styled system to make sequels using the 
original engine. It's a different feeling playing "Albion II" or a fan 
made XCOM-Part with the original engine instead of a new one (like in 
"XFORCE" or "Alien Invasion").

And because of my Computer being too fast for the games, I still have a 
486-Processor DOS-PC (MSDOS 6.22) to play them - but I need a monitor...

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