UFO: Afterlight / -math / -shock? (half off at GOG)

[DaveSimmons]

Which of the UFO: After* games are worth playing for an X-Com fan?

GoG.com has them for $3-5 each this weekend, DRM free.

 

[Martimus]

UFO: Enemy Unknown is the only UFO game that I have played, and it is awesome. Of course most people know the game as X-COM.

 

[Elcs]

UFO: Enemy Unknown is the only UFO game that I have played, and it is awesome. Of course most people know the game as X-COM.

Sad shame they had to kill the series by calling it X-COM.

UFO: Enemy Unknown was such an inspired name and fit in very well with the early-mid game feel.

The After<bit> games are supposed to be in general quite good... but just not as good as the real UFO game.

For that much, I'd be tempted to grab the latest one and have away with it. Pretty cheap and I've spent more on games that turned out to be worse.

 

[Schadenfroh]

So many new ones, which "modern" X-Com is the best and is it any good?

 

[QuantumPion]

While XCOM is the classic, gameplay wise I find apocalypse to have more replay value and fun. The mid-game UFO recoveries in XCOM get repetitive and boring after a while. Apoc is more varied and if you just want to rush through an encounter its easy to just run around with guns blazing full auto without too much danger.

 

[Albatross]

http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News
This is the best successor and its free,however it`s not finished.

 

[DaveSimmons]

D'oh, the GameSpot review of Aftershock is only 4.0 out of 10, and mentions Aftermath as being worse:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...m_clk=gssummary&tag=summary&#37;3Bread-review

"Gameplay adds to the sense of drudgery. As with UFO: Aftermath, missions in UFO: Aftershock feature too much repetition. It seems as though there are no more than a dozen maps, so you clear the exact same ruined factories and ruined railway yards and ruined wilderness wastelands all over the world, no matter if you're fighting in Canada or Kazakhstan. All of the scenery is also universally ugly, with lots of jaggies and a color palette ranging from brown to black. Opposition is provided by a handful of alien enemies, all of which look like Close Encounters of the Third Kind-style alien "Greys," and what seems to be a trio of mutants, so you kill the same poorly drawn, poorly animated baddies repeatedly."


Afterlight gets 6.5 / 10.0 but still seems pretty flawed:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...vert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review



Sigh. Sounds like I'm better off just playing the real X-Com one more time....

 

[Elcs]

And you believe a Gamepsot review?

 

[Mem]

I have them all ie UFO:Afterlight,Aftermath,Aftershock etc...


They all have their good and bad points,I would say try UFO:Extraterrestrials which is probably closest one to UFO:Enemy Unknown between them all.
Nothing beats the classic X-COM games but Extraterrestrials is not bad IMHO.

You can always download and use Dosbox to play the classic X-COM games like I do(playing X-COM: Apocalypse at the moment on my Win7 x64).

Game reviews of the above games are not 100% accurate since there have been a few patches released since those reviews.

 

[Mem]

UFO :Aftermath was released first then came Aftershock and last Afterlight, the last two are better then the first one IMHO.

UFO:Extraterrestrials was made by a different company,hope this helps.