Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: Shockwave on November 18, 2008
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I was looking around the internets yesterday to see if there were any tribute versions of Xcom Enemy Unknown and I found a pretty cool tribute called Ufo Alien Invasion, anyway I played that through, the game is pretty good, it has some obvious flaws though.
One of the developers rubbished my ideas for developing it a little (I suggested destructible terrain, but I think that they can't be very good because it's not included in their game engine..) anyway, after being growled at there I got the urge to play X-com.
Lots of sites have it as Abandonware, it could be just downloaded and played on dosbox I guess, but I found something called Steam by Valve.
Steam has loads of classic games available, I picked up a legit copy of Xcom for $5!!!
It runs perfectly too, sound emulation is fine... It was really nice to be re-united with Xcom after all these years and play the game as it should be.
Probably this is old news to most of you but the experience has been a nice one for me.
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Yeah I have Steam, I use it for Half Life / Half Life 2 - plus expansions. Check out the Orange Box.
Great to hear you've been re-united with a fav game of yours dude.
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Where's the orange box Clyde? :)
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It's a compilation pack of several really great games.
See it here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Box)!
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I don't like Steam at all. It's more like adware/spyware/virus than real software. It keeps going off on its own and downloading stuff from the internet, and it doesn't care what time of day it does it - unless of course this has all been fixed in the 2yrs since I last used it?
Jim
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That's a bit of a bummer. I like Xcom too much to get rid of it though.