This one is going to be day 1 for me. I've been cautiously hopeful for a while. Recent coverage has tipped me over the edge. I am considering booking a day off work so I can get a quality 3 day weekend with it. I haven't done that in ... 2 years?

Back in ye day the only XCOM game I played was Interceptor. I loved it to bits, played it repeatedly, and was shocked when, many years later, I learned it was viewed as a poor game by many series fans. I couldn't get UFO, Terror or Apocalypse when they were current as PC game shopping was very limited back then - I don't think I saw a single copy of any of them until they released the budget bundle pack years later! By that point the games had a reputation for not working properly on 'modern' machines like a Pentium 1 so I had to pass them over. I was talked into playing XCOM 1 this year, all DOSBoxed and fixed up courtesy of gamersgate and the UFOExtender mod. The game holds up fantastically. I'm quite fond of Terror too, love the unusual setting. Not played Apocalypse yet. Somehow the setting makes it less interesting.

XCOM ranks alongside Crusader Kings II as one of my favourite "Well, that all went horribly wrong - what fun!" games. Not many games manage to make disasters enjoyable for the player.

Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
People complained that the first XCOM was too easy. So, the seond XCOMs easiest setting was as hard as the firsts superhuman setting. This explains why I never beat the 2nd, because I always went for anything but easy.
The detail which makes this hilarious is that the first XCOM had a bug which reset game difficulty to the easiest level when you reloaded a game. You need to hexedit one of the game's files in order to fix it. AFAIK it's still be present in the versions available on steam and gamersgate. You have to mod the game to fix it.