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

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

It looks very good in the screenshots - how good a system does it require in single-player, and what sort of connection do you need for decent online play? I have a 1.8 Ghz P4 with 512 RAM and a reasonably good graphics card...

[blufive.livejournal.com]

Based on what the FAQ says, you're more than adequately equipped, hardware-wise.

For online play, everything I can see says it's play by e-mail - so unless the datafiles it's emailing around are stupidly large, it should be playable on just about any connection (though I won't make any promises about IP by carrier pigeon)

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. I don't think I've ever seen that before...

And yes, a FAQ - cheers.

I'm currently getting used to Laser Squad - it's close enough to the old X-Com to be familiar, but with lots of lovely, tactical innovations (I'm pretty sure there wasn't 'Opportunity Fire' in the old one; or the facility to 'hold' your trooper in the middle of a march...).