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Article #710303Re: Is this the spiritual successor to X-Com we have been waiting for?
From: Jeremy Reaban
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:56
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:56
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"Pipboy" <no@email.invalid> wrote in message news:e98hmm6fx8m.1507c3ru2xrww$.dlg@40tude.net... >I sure hope so. No, but it's at least closer to X-com than anything else that has been made in years. Key differences: a) No random soldeiers, apparently pre-made like JA2 b) No random mission generation, apparently pre-made (apparently there's something like 250 missions made for the game, and it selects an appropriate one from that bunch) c) Done by Czechs, so very east european
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.buerger.net!news.ecp.fr!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-04!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-02!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Jeremy Reaban" <jer@connectria.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Subject: Re: Is this the spiritual successor to X-Com we have been waiting for? Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:56:07 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <1312reloklsbr83@news.supernews.com> Reply-To: "Jeremy Reaban" <trancejeremy@yahoo.com> References: <e98hmm6fx8m.1507c3ru2xrww$.dlg@40tude.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.1830 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.1830 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit