It's gone all quiet...

[blufive]

UFO Aftermath is just as addictive, just as time-consuming, and just as difficult as the game it was inspired by (X-Com: UFO Defence, AKA UFO: Enemy Unknown)

More detailed comments may be forthcoming once I stop playing it quite so much.

Comments

[blufive.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to, but no, I haven't.

I believe LSN is a far more direct descendant of the first (and best, IMO) X-Com game, being written by the Gollop Brothers (who were programming and design leads on XCOM:UFO) whereas UFO:AM is a third-party copy[1] homage.

[1]I'm being cruel. While UFO:AM is a fairly obvious re-make of XCOM:UFO, it's a far better re-make than, say, XCOM: Terror From The Deep (which wasn't a sequel, it was the same game with new sprites, only much harder)

(Oh, how embarrassing: I fumbled the HTML on the first comment, and me a professional webby-person. darn. apologies for the repeat to those who get to see it before I delete my goof)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you want me to send you an LSN battle to play with me -- I'm a subscriber, so you don't need to subscribe yourself.

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

I forget how I got to your journal, but I can't resist commenting on the wonderful XCOM games!

Terror From The Deep was, as you say, much, much more difficult - all of those labyrinthine cruise ship missions, and the near-impossible alien undersea base missions...

The missions were a lot bigger (and I think it ran a little slower, because of the increased size - on my 'puter, at least).

(I seem to recall getting to the middle bit of one of them, eventually, but don't remember completing the mission - or if I did, my team was in such a mess that when the aliens then decided to attack my base, I stood no chance I was so depleted...)

The first was far more playable, I think, because things didn't get difficult quite so quickly...

I haven't played either of them for ages.

I have, however, just discovered something equally distracting: an emulator for the BBC Micro and Stryker's Run...