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Interceptor is set before X-Com Apocalypse, hence no mention of the
game in Interceptor's manual.

Although it does suck, I think Microprose does deserve some credit...
at least they're trying to give us something new.

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:08:35 -0500, no...@abma.com (Niscal) wrote:

>I got Interceptor just a couple days ago, thinking this must be the latest
>and greatest in the series, but have been pretty unimpressed. Does anybody
>know the story behind this thing? It almost looks like a sub-group at
>Microprose threw this thing together in their spare time, and decided to
>release it as some sort of alternate third-game-in-the-trilogy. The
>documentation talks about X-Com 1 and 2, but doesn't mention Apocalypse at
>all. I should've remembered Microprose's fondness for "hack-job" games.
>
>For those of you who haven't played it, it's a first-person spacecraft
>shoot-em-up, mainly. It does have some of the X-Com "strategy" elements of
>base-building, technology-researching, radar-watching, etc., but just feels
>slapped together. Used to be, when I was running an old turn-based X-Com
>mission, I felt like I had lots of options. Capture the aliens? Save the
>people? Destroy the houses? Bullets (single, burst, auto), gas, flame,
>rockets! With these first-person shoot-em-up missions in Interceptor, I
>feel like I basically have to blast everything in sight before they can
>blast me, and that's about it.
>
>Mainly what's lacking, I suppose, is the feeling of exploration that really
>"makes" an X-Com game. As bad as TFTD was, it was spine-tingling to decend
>into the lower levels of a mother ship. Likewise for the alien buildings in
>Apocalypse. In Interceptor, there's no exploration -- you can discover
>alien space bases, but when you go to destroy them, it's all done in
>spaceship dogfight mode -- and one dogfight looks pretty much like any
>other. It gets monotonous really fast. Even beefing up your spaceship with
>new weapons, etc. doesn't really help or change the appearance of the
>fights that much.
>
>I sure hope that the next X-Com game, whatever it is, isn't first person
>the way Interceptor is first person. It kills 90% of what made up a good
>X-Com game.

I bought Interceptor like a month ago, unfortunately, this new xcom was not as
interesting as before. It was easy to get bored since the graphics looks dull,
especially the enemy. It doesnt have much variety of enemy like we usually have
in previous xcom. I feel just wasted my 40+ bucks =( The only good things about
this is the allien message which tell you little bit more variation. If you
havent have one of this interceptor stuff, my advise is DON'T BUY IT

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