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Originally posted by MahlerIsGod
This X-Com of which you speak, pray tell. I have never heard of this game, could someone fill me in. Much obliged.
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X-Com is classic gaming royalty. Search for it on Abandonware websites. It was basically a tactical turn-based strategy game, with base management - a sort of precursor to Jagged Alliance and its ilk.
You equip your squad, board a ship, and wait for a UFO to appear on radar. Then you launch your interceptors, and take the aliens down, send your squad transport to the crash site, and the turn-based fun begins! Each soldier has a certain amount of action points in each turn, you can spend them on movement, shooting, and other stuff. Meeting face-to-face with an armed alien, just when you realize you've got no more action points left is quite a feeling....
When you are done killing or disabling all the aliens, you bring them and their artifacts back to the base. There you can research them, and other technologies, and equip your squad with even deadlier tools. Soldiers also get better with every mission they live through.
Aah X-Com... I am glad to have had the privilege of beating both X-Com games, on machines that they were made for. Good luck getting it to play nice with your too-fast CPU
