X-Files (PC)

......on X-Com: Terror frm the Deep. Sorry for the utterly pants title, but after 445 I'm finding it so hard to be original. Some of my friends just happened to go to Uni a few weeks before me, and initial reports from them was that they had lots of free time which they needed to fill. They'd turned to playing large amounts of computer games, so in anticipation of this I brought along a few of my favourite games to Uni with me. Little did I realise that they were doing courses with around 7 hours of lectures a week, whereas I have 23 plus a fair bit of work to do, so as it turns out having the temptation of playing computer games (or writing Dooyoo ops ...

If you have played the first X-Com game you will notice that the gameplay and graphics are exactly the same. The only differences are it is under water and there are different enemies crafts, weapons etc. For those of you who haven't played the previous game you have to attack alien craft using vehicles and then send men into various situations, this is controlled by turn based tactical combat, the alien technology can then be researched and used leading up to a final conflict. The only trouble with this game is that the graphics are now looking very dated and the sound is also showing its age. Never the less it is well worth the money and I would recommend it to ...

As much as I love the original Xcom (or UFO as it was calle over here!), I never really played the sequel until this year. I tracked it down on an auction site, on 3.5" discs nonetheless, and set about playing it while I was at home over Christmas, on a bog standard 486. I was pleasantly surprised. The addition of a newish aliens and water/land weapons was a good move, but overall it feels like the same game again. The atmosphere never quite feels as good, but the rest of the game is true to it's prequel, and if it ain't broke, what's to fix. Worth picking up on budget, or as part of the XCom boxset, if you don't have all the others already. ...