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"Wayne Cepeda" <cpslim7626@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> hey wazzup one now i get xcom for free

Not legally, and we see no reason to aid and abet in criminal
activities...

--KC

what r u a cop or something or a riaa advocate
"Kasey Chang (remove EATSPAM to reply)" <kschang77@eatspamhotmail.com> wrote
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> "Wayne Cepeda" <cpslim7626@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:OLege.882$LO1.99@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > hey wazzup one now i get xcom for free
>
> Not legally, and we see no reason to aid and abet in criminal
> activities...
>
> --KC
>
>

> > > hey wazzup one now i get xcom for free
> > Not legally, and we see no reason to aid and abet in criminal
> > activities...
> what r u a cop or something or a riaa advocate

Nah, this community is just not appreciative of freeloaders.  All of the
games in the X-Com series are still available commercially.  If you like the
game enough to want it, put your money where your mouth is.

AND STOP FREAKIN' TOP-POSTING!!!!

--
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Daniel "Naughty Tentacles" Blakemore schrieb:
>>>>hey wazzup one now i get xcom for free
>>>
>>>Not legally, and we see no reason to aid and abet in criminal
>>>activities...
>>
>>what r u a cop or something or a riaa advocate
> 
> 
> Nah, this community is just not appreciative of freeloaders.  All of the
> games in the X-Com series are still available commercially.  If you like the
> game enough to want it, put your money where your mouth is.
> 
> AND STOP FREAKIN' TOP-POSTING!!!!
> 
> --
> Daniel Blakemore
> Mini Gallery #1 - http://www.rottenlead.com/copper/thumbnails.php?album=8
> #2 - http://www.voidgamers.com/channel/b.190.html?author_name=MYLORDKHORNE
> #3 - http://www.pbase.com/mylordkhorne/
> ICQ:14459824  Yahoo IM: mylordkhorne
> 
> 
Okay, if they're available then I have to ask 2 Questions:
1) How many XCOM-Games are there (I know of 2: UFO and TFTD)
2) Where to purchase them (I live in Germany, so that is rather a 
problem...)

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> Okay, if they're available then I have to ask 2 Questions:
> 1) How many XCOM-Games are there (I know of 2: UFO and TFTD)

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?

> 2) Where to purchase them (I live in Germany, so that is rather a
> problem...)

Most of the above can be found in the Collector's Edition, which most of the
online bookstores (Amazon, etc...) can order for you.  (I think there was an
old thread on here listing exactly where...perhaps do a google search?)
And of course, they occasionally pop up on eBay from time to time  ;)

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Daniel "Naughty Tentacles" Blakemore wrote:
>>Okay, if they're available then I have to ask 2 Questions:
>>1) How many XCOM-Games are there (I know of 2: UFO and TFTD)
> ...and a daft one featuring an X-Com android...  X-Com Aftermath, I think?

Enforcer.  I do have a copy but didn't make it work on my old PC.  I may 
have to try again on my newer one at some point.

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

In all honesty, I haven't seen a good game in the same style since JA2. 
Which, damnit, I now want to play again...

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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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"Daniel "Naughty Tentacles" Blakemore" <Daniel.Blakemore@btopenworld.com>
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> >
> X-Com E-Mail (fun whilst it lasted ;)  )
>
> --
> Daniel Blakemore
> Mini Gallery #1 - http://www.rottenlead.com/copper/thumbnails.php?album=8
> #2 - http://www.voidgamers.com/channel/b.190.html?author_name=MYLORDKHORNE
> #3 - http://www.pbase.com/mylordkhorne/
> ICQ:14459824  Yahoo IM: mylordkhorne
>
>

Follow the links .....

http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=1158

Cheers

Doug.

Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>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...)

That's X-Com Enforcer which was an arcadey FPS.

>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").

Urban Chaos. Diedrianna(?) Lives too.

>Recommended. 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. Misses the research option, 
>but slowly lets you get new hardware from the market, so the same 
>dynamic is there.
>
>In all honesty, I haven't seen a good game in the same style since JA2. 
>Which, damnit, I now want to play again...

The main difference between X-Com and almost all other games in the
genre is that other games have linear, scripted missions and X-Com
doesn't.

"Wayne Cepeda" <cpslim7626@earthlink.net> wrote:
>hey wazzup one now i get xcom for free

Hey guys what's up with this?
http://www.fileplanet.com/151115/150000/fileinfo/X-COM:-UFO-Defence-Gold-Edition
(From a strategycore.co.uk news item).