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Article #592Re: Ooops...(RE: XCOM aliens were NOT craP!)
From: Roger.Chapman
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:00
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>> Shaun Green (Greenish9) wrote in message >> <360EA503...@greenshb.globalnet.co.uk>... >> >Yeah! The Apoc aliens were original, unlike those from UFO (although >> >being able to shoot little grey men was cool). Chryssalids? Seen the >> >'alien' films, anyone? Of course, UFO was the atypical alien invasion >> >thing...which was what we all wanted! >> > >> >Greenish_9 >> >> Ok, so the UFO aliens weren't that original, but they were still better than >> Apoc. Think about how nasty a Cyberdisk could be on a night terror mission. >> Shots coming out of the dark and killing your men and you couldn't find >> where they were coming from! I can only think of two good weapons in Apoc, >> Megaspawn(a walking weapon) and Dimension Launchers(notice I didn't say >> grenades). > >I liked Apocs aliens better..but maybe that was 'cos I liked the game >better! Grenades were lethal, and devastators just as bad. And entropy >launchers? Killers! I said not grenades cos both games have nasty grenades. Entropy launchers were just annoying. >> Chrysalids were much nasty than the 'aliens'. In Aliens, >> the...well...aliens had to drag you off to an egg chambers to get you >> impregnated, and when the egg hatched it was a tiny bugger. Chrysalids can >> perform a quick de-gutting, turn your man into an alien straight away, and >> when you kill the infected bloke, a full-sized one came out! > >Yes, but the Aliens were a lot harder! And they popped up from the >floor/ceiling/toaster quite nastily... > But in UFO, aliens and men were much more evenly balanced. No Toxin C to help you out. >> Yes...I have to agree with you, UFO was what we all wanted. > >Yup! I thank you again for introducing me to it! > >Greenish_9
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