XCOM revived as UFO: Freedom Ridge!

[Raion]

Altar with Virgin will take up where Mythos Games left off with Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge although it will now be called UFO: Freedom Ridge and be released around the late 2002.
A Classic -- XCOM -- will be revived.

Can be found at Gamespot:

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2831776,00.html

Save the Earth and defeat the Aliens!

[Urban Ranger]

This looks good.

One thing I wished Mythos had done with the original XCOM was, even though humans can capture and study alien tech, they'd use it as references to develop their own technology instead of duplicating what they can find.

[General Ludd]

Maybe you should check the related links.

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2690582,00.html

I was following it for some time before it was cancled. Apparently Mythos is working on a sequal to their original game, now - laser squad. Doesn't look very good to me, though.

[General Ludd]

Duurrrr

EDIT: I didn't bother to read your post , and thought you where talkign about the original version, not knowing that it was back on track.


Good to hear!

[Case]

Is this going to be a FPS or a strategy game?

[Ari Rahikkala]

Judging from the screenshots at http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters...3875-2,00.html ... Strategy. Though you apparently can take the point of view of a single soldier, too.

[Raion]

Oh, I wonder if they will try and change it to both types like XCOM: Apcolypse. Considering when going on a mission with your XCOM squad or squads that I always played the TB type mission instead of the RT mission, which some people said took about 3 minutes compared to about 3 hours, either way it was still fun. I marvel over the buildings in the Apcolypse even though it was still written for DOS and not Windows back in 1997. XCOM: UFO Defense, the original, was always fun in the dark night with flares, something missing from Acolypse. All in all, even with brain suckers, exploding dogs, spitters, worms, and the regular army aliens, the game is just fun. Of course, when you lose squad members and have to recuit more, and wonder if you can even fight them, it all gets very involved.

This is why this current version looked so good, like the original plus some current new 3-d dimensional views and playfield that Dreamland Chronicles would even be more realistic.

I hope they do a good job on it, because the detailed screen shots, seem like one will be in a completely different but familiar looking world, except the aliens have taken over the planet and its just you as the leader to reclaim the Earth back for humanity and take the fight to the aliens.

Fun!

[Raion]

They upgraded XCOM: Apcolypse last year around Christmas when all three XCOM come out in one package for about $10 or so. Had DX6.1 on it for the Apcolypse the third one, and of couse Terror from the Deep, the second one, I never really got into, seeing how it was underwater, but people said it was hard.
At gamespot one can still read the Reviews on all of them in the Stratedgy Games Section there.

They were going to follow the missile or weapon shot in this version of the game, but in all, you have squads and a command center, scientists, a budget, engineers, biochemists, to try and figure out how to defeat the aliens who have taken over the Earth.
Plus, trying and fight them, gather resources, and recuit new bases and members to eventually defeat the aliens.

Good luck!

[Raion]

Maybe upgraded the year before, I can not remember. Although one thing you will remember is the music, sounds, and atmosphere created by the game when attempting to find the aliens and fight them with your squads especially with XCOM: Apcolypse. In the night when playing the game, its another game that glues you to the screen and hard to stop keeping going.

Well, it's strategy, fun and scary!

[Raion]

Here's the reviews from the first three XCOM's, well I like it, and its something different and fun, to me:

XCOM: UFO Defence

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/0,11114,199362,00.html

XCOM: Terror from the Deep (Hard and not rated as good)

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/0,11114,199361,00.html

XCOM: Apocalypse

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/0,11114,36014,00.html

[Case]

Is there a version of the original X-Com that works with windows 9X? I'd really like to play that game again, but my old copy won't work on fast, windows computers

[John D Ward]

There is a package, the X-COM Collection, containing the first four X-COM games and X-COM em@il. The versions of UFO and Terror from the Deep have been tweaked to run under Windows 9X.

However, bear in mind the following:

1. I don't know if it's available in Australia.

2. I have had a BAD system crash when attempting to play UFO using this version in Windows 98. To be on the safe side. I wouldn't recommend it, unless you really enjoy reinstalling Windows and all your software. You might be safe starting your PC in DOS mode to play these games.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by John D Ward
There is a package, the X-COM Collection, containing the first four X-COM games

First four? there where only 3. Unless you are counting one of the horrible spin offs like enforcer, interceptor, or alliance. In which case, you shouldn't be!

[Urban Ranger]

The first one, XCOM: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemies Unkown here), is awesome. One of the top games ever designed.

The second one, Terror from the Deep, sucks. It's MOTS (more of the same), except you do it under water and the enemies were made 10x as tough.

The third one, Apocalypse is alright. I have always used the turn-based combat, although it seems silly that everything got smaller instead of larger. It was fun raiding the cults, though

So I'm hoping this one will be closest to the first game, with all the night missions and all. It also seems interesting that the roles are now reversed. You become the "attacker" and the bad guys become the "defender."

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
So I'm hoping this one will be closest to the first game, with all the night missions and all. It also seems interesting that the roles are now reversed. You become the "attacker" and the bad guys become the "defender."

You wouldn't believe this - but there was another version being made a few years ago, called X-Com genesis, and when hasbro bought out microprose, they scraped the team working on it, but it was essentially a new version of the original - you can see some screenshots from the long dead game here.

The team working on it was Mythos (who also made the original UFO defense, and Apocalypse) when they got canned by hasbro they went on to make freedom ridge, only to get canned again... but it seems they are back on the horse, yet again.


As if that wheren't bad enough, Microprose nearly canned them before the original UFO defense, and caused them to cut out alot of features they wanted (the men in black, for example) and then they asked them to release a half-assed sequel afterwards, they refused thoguh, But microprose went on to do it themselves, the result of which is TFTD. ( ) the same sort of nonsense went on during the development of Apocalypse, and they had to make a bunch of cutbacks there, too. (For example, they wanted the city politics to be much more developed - with other factions investigating crash sites and more interaction with them, ect...)