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I bought the UFO: Extraterrestrials game but not played it yet.  Will watch this one with interest as loved the original game, could've sworn I had it on the Amiga though rather than PC as their archived article suggests...

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I started with X-Com Terror From the Deep and it was fantastic!

Can you get a version of this for the Win7?

It was out for the Amiga, although I played it on PC.

You can play them with DOSBox if you want to use it under Win7. There are a few fans making their own game engines that use the original content, but this seems to be for the first game rather than TftD.

I bought the entire turn based series on Steam one sale for £3 or something stupid, I have the original on floppies in the loft but none of the sequels. Actually it still seems to be £3 heh.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/

I think they come with DOSbox all configured for the game, so its literally click and go.

Fan remakes:

OpenXCom (far from finished)
http://openxcom.org/

UFO: The Two Sides (not finished, and stopped due to legal fears)
http://ufotts.ninex.info/

UFO 2000 (not updated for over a year, still beta)
http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/

UFO: Alien Invasion (UFO inspired)
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News



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Cheers Rob, would never have guessed they'd still be available through Steam.  Purchased...

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http://www.dvdreviewer.co.uk/Forums/Gaming_and_Consoles/t845209/New_XCOM_strategy_game_in_the_works/page1

what was wrong with my thread, I would say merge but there's no point

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6348228.html

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When Take-Two first revived the xcom turn-based strategy series with the announcement of a first-person shooter, some purists were less than pleased. Those same purists may be pacified today, as xcom-enemy-unknown.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Game Informer has teased its February cover story with the unveiling of xcom: Enemy Unknown, a new turn-based strategy installment in the alien-fighting franchise.

Loved the 1st two turn based games, had them on PSOne, they worked really well, did a great job of adapting the PC's keyboard and mouse interface for console, this one is due to come out on 360, ps3 and PC, so fingers crossed

This item was edited on Friday, 6th January 2012, 19:21

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what was wrong with my threadI searched and only found ones about FPS.

I could give you this one?


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This item was edited on Friday, 6th January 2012, 21:34

you didn't need to search, I posted 30 mins before you

anyone would thing you own this site or something ! it's alright, I'll let you keep this one, you may as well delete the other one, or someone will get confused later!

Cheers Rob - likewise I just blew 8.99 on steam!

That's my weekend pretty much sorted!

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likewise I just blew 8.99 on steam!It really was £3 before when I posted (and I suspect when Si got it ) I think some things (like the Quake packs) are regularly discounted.


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you didn't need to search, I posted 30 mins before you Ah, my bad. I'm awful at opening a window, starting a post, wandering off and then realising I never clicked Post Reply.


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