UFO: Alien Invasion (X-Com "remake")

[Sacrusha]

The developers of the open source (meaning it's going to be free) game UFO: Alien Invasion have announced that it will take them some more time before they can release their second techdemo, but to make up for this they have released a christmas special - a stand alone version of their first techdemo, this time featuring more maps than the original demo, all of them never seen before, new weapons and a few other goodies.

No map in this pack has been released before, so if you like this kind of games, you might want both the christmas special, and the original demo which is hosted by gamershell.com.

Both demos are available for windows and linux. The minimum system requirements are a 333+MHz processor and an openGL compatible Graphics Card - if you don't know what that means: if Quake3 runs on your PC, that will easily do.

You can find out more at the homepage of the ufo:ai team, http://ufoai.net


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UFO: Alien Invasion is a fanmade project, similar to Project Xenocide, which is inspired by Mythos Games' (R.I.P.) X-Com Series. In short you have to combat aliens in both turn based combat, and realtime world-scale strategy, altough the current techdemo features turnbased combat only. A second techdemo, which will put the first techdemo and the christmas special to shame, is currently worked at, but it will likely take a few more months before it is going to be released.

The game itself is based on a heavily modified quake 2 engine, which despite it's age is still much better than what your usual free game has to offer.

[Bucky]

Sweet!

Thanks for the info!

[LoneStrider]

i wish i could say the same thing. but it looks awful. since its a free game, i won't flame any further. nice job for a free game then ;)

[Sacrusha]

"Looks awful" as in "seen the screenshots" or as in "played the game"? ;)

Altough I have to admit the graphic is somewhat outdated, it's the quake 2 engine.

[Bucky]

Originally posted by --Tha Patriot--@Dec 26 2004, 03:56 PM
i wish i could say the same thing. but it looks awful. since its a free game, i won't flame any further. nice job for a free game then ;)

Who cares how the graphics look?

Good lord. Wake up! Games aren't fun because of how they look, it's the gameplay. The original game was fun as hell and looked way worse than this. A remake is awesome

[Ranzy]

Amen! The early X-COM games (Alien invasion and Terror from the Deep) still are some of the best turnbased action games there are. Man, I loved those research options. Who cares about the graphics, it still rocks! Thanks for the links man.

[LoneStrider]

mhm, if you say so, i might give it a try. tho its turnbased? mmh.

[theGrayFox]

Just to emphasize the whole "gfx are not the most important thing" thingie going on here. I'm replaying FF3(US)/FF6 (JAP) in a *cough*emu*cough*...

Hope that this remake is done real soon!!

[SprigganX]

wow matreox you surprised us. Who cares I play Marvel vs Capcom online all the time.

[theGrayFox]

matreox??