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Customer Reviews of X-Com Collector's Edition

The premise is that in 1999, the governments of the world begin to see a heightened increase in cattle mutiliations, alien abductions and terror attacks from extra-terrestrial forces and form an independent international alien combat team to fight the invaders, steal thier technology, and bring the fight to them. The latest Earth-technology is given but soon after the game begins you'll start capturing alien ships, weapons and even a few of the ET's themselves. The graphics are dated by today's standards, but as with any great game the look of it is meant only to enhance a great plot and premise. The AI is fantastic as Sectoids, Floaters, and Muton Men will often exhibit good combat (albeit guerilla style) tactics.

After capturing enemy weaponry and UFO's, you can research them to discover how they work and add the info to the exhaustive UFOPedia, what has to be the greatest collection of Xenophobe's pleasuretime reading material. Aliens will discover your bases and attempt to destroy them, terror attacks on major cities and depending heavily on how well you defended them or didn't, the Host country will either lower or raise thier monetary funding to X-Com.

The most memorable moment for myself and probably everyone else that's ever played this game occurs soon after starting the game when you down your very first UFO and send in the squad to capture it, and one of your troops sees an alien for the first time (Remember that little red flashing "1" in the corner?). And the music and overall atmosphere is just impossible to describe as the combat that follows is often chaotic, sometimes resulting in the loss of key characters you've raised from the lowest ranks.

X-Com:UFO Defense is just an outstanding game in almost every respect, and I wish they'd resurface the idea and remake the game using modern technology. Or maybe not. It's sometimes best to leave a good thing alone.

One near-perfect game...and 2 others
The original X-Com is one of the greatest games ever. You could run the old DOS version on a 386-processor computer, and I'm still playing the Collector's Edition port to Windows on my 1.3GHz notebook years later.

It's not a perfect port, though. The opening cutscene is missing some of the sounds from the original, like the British woman saying, "Warning...warning..." The sound files for the aliens seem to have been randomized, so some of them sound pretty weird. (The Sectoids have surprisingly deep voices when they die, and one of the pink-blob aliens makes a huge explosion noise as it moves...) The Blaster Bombs go off in random directions if you try to change altitude. And when the aliens invade your base, sometimes a large part of your defending force just doesn't show up for the fight...I once had to hold off a bunch of Ethereals and Sectapods with nothing but various HWPs, despite having a dozen Squaddies stationed at that base.

Despite all that, it's still fun as all get-out. I love to rename all my Squaddies after friends and relatives. It makes the fights a lot more nerve-wracking. (Oh no, they got Kevin!)

There are the two mainline sequels on the disk too. Terror from the Deep is OK, but it's just more of the same--not really original or much of an improvement. X-Com: Apocalypse was a fun game, but never quite as fun as the original, IMHO. Oddly, I've never been able to get it to work on a recently-built computer, though. I've found myself just playing this slightly-flawed version of the old original X-Com, over and over.

I don't want another sequel to X-Com--I want the original, updated, with more aliens and technologies and suprises, multiplayer options, and all that, great graphics, a better interface--but all with that original humor and horror.

THIS GAME WILL TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE
This is one of the best games of it's kind. Without a doubt! I recently built an old computer just to play this game. It's got some compatability issues here and there, but the game play is great. 5 Stars, Must try. (This game almost made me fail my first semster of college - beware!!)