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Pocket UFO SMK Software2006[b]Requirements:[/b]
* Pocket PC with Strong ARM or X-Scale processor 200MHz or faster (400Mhz is recommended)
* 12MB of storage space (16MB is recommended)
* 8МB of program space (16MB is recommended)
* Hi-color display 240x320 (QVGA) or 480x640 (VGA)
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Pocket UFO SMK Software2006Latest version: 1.26 (as of 2007-05-29)***The Windows version of [game=Pocket UFO]Pocket UFO[/game] is quite straight-forward conversion of the PPC version, with miniscule window you can't resize and odd controls designed for the pocket device rather than a more intuitive interface for regular Windows users. Go play the original rather than this, or [game=UFO 2000]UFO 2000[/game] which is a more proper remake (once they get the single player campaign working). Windowslabelimageminimize
Pocket UFO SMK Software2006 Mobilelabelminimizeminimize
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified  2K Games (2K Marin)2013 X360labelimageminimize
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified  2K Games (2K Marin)2013Aunque de primeras parece un shooter del montón, lo que le convierte en un buen juego es el control y manejo de tu escuadra, donde es importante saber cómo moverlos y de que habilidades disponen, convirtiéndolo en un juego de acción a tiempo real pero con momentos de planificación, a medio camino entre los X-COM clásicos y un Rainbow Six.

7 de 10***The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism. As agent Carter, call the shots, pull the trigger and lead your squad in a gripping third-person tactical shooter set within a covert war to protect humanity from an otherworldly enemy.***The plot has a tragic logical fallacy about the Bureau performing a complete erasing of the truth of what happened, except the invasion was global and they had no control over what happened in other countries and the amount of secrecy they held over the event (likely poor/none in several), yet it's said no evidence of the invasion was left to the public.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified  2K Games (2K Marin)2013 PS3labelimageminimize
X-COM: Alliance Hasbro Interactive1999Was cancelled, along [game=#162102]X-COM: Genesis[/game], when Hasbro Interactive was closed down. Windowslabelminimizesubject
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X-COM: Apocalypse  Microprose;2K Games (Microprose)1997
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[65]***Una extraño juego de la saga X-COM, tanto por estética (plasticote retro por todas partes) como por jugabilidad (lo de defender una ciudad de conspiraciones cambia el juego de estrategia defensiva a estrategia política)

Eso sí, las misiones se manejan por turnos y la interfaz está muy pulida, además de que muchas armas y elementos nuevos (como los ataques psíquicos) están muy bien integrados.

6 de 10***
[58]***There's something evil in the city tonight...

Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus.

2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city. UFOs swarm through Dimensional Gateways. The city's under siege from an unknown enemy.

Your mission, as X-COM Commander, is to combat alien aggression and uncover their deadly intentions. But Beware! Alien infiltration into the city and its politics could see you under fire from criminal gangs, religious sects, and even the police!

Alien fleets fill the skies, creatures terrorize the city, chaos reigns... Welcome to the war, welcome to the Apocalypse.

Features:

* Explosive third game from the highly successful and thrilling X-Com series, following X-COM: UFO Defense and X-COM: Terror from the Deep.
* Battle alien invasion fleets over the city of Mega Primus in real-time.
* Combat the alien infestation in real-time or turn-based tactical missions.
* Research alien-based technology. Create newer and more destructive weaponry.
* Destroy alien sympathizers and stem alien infiltration. Wage war on new worlds in the Alien Dimension.
[Valve?]***Latest version: retail***[b]missing images:[/b] package, alien dimension, more interesting/varied looking tactical combat screens***[b]Minimum requirements:[/b]
* 486 DX/4 100 MHz
* MS-DOS 5.0
* 8 MB RAM (16 MB if running under Windows 95)
* 20 MB free HD space
* SVGA 640x480x256 display mode

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* Pentium 90 MHz
* 16 MB RAM
* 200 MB free HD space

[b]Supported soundcards:[/b]
* SoundBlaster
* MS Sound System
* ESS Audio Drive
* ProAudio Spectrum
* Ensoniq SoundScape
* Gravis UltraSound***This is advertised as Windows 95 game, but it's actually DOS game. It's however of note that Win95 had sufficient DOS support still in for it to work there without effort. Not true in newer Windows systems though.***An unusual change from the previous X-COM games which were darker and more tied to popular sci-fi fads. Although the gameplay is good and somewhat unusual, its greatest weakness is its outlook. Everything is in cheery candy wrapped colours with odd plastic shine to them, giving the game an unreal feel and makes it difficult to immerse oneself into the gameworld and feel like we really are being invaded by aliens from another dimension while some strange alien worshipping cult tries to sabotage your operations. This is not the only reason, but it just feels like it lacks a great deal to make itself stand out, especially now that the game is located on one huge megapolis rather than the whole world, so you'd expect the game to also have more detail on that accord but no, there isn't. Despite this, the game is enjoyable for some odd reason, but could've been much better.
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X-COM: Collector's Edition Atari (MicroProse)1999The three games ported to run on Windows platform natively (except for Apocalypse?), otherwise these are exactly the same as the original games. Windowslabelimageminimize
X-COM: Enemy Unknown  Microprose1995One of the most popular PC titles ever is now available for the PlayStation. X-COM: UFO Defense is a strategy game that begins with aliens invading Earth. You control a team of specialists that must gather materials, build bases, and fight back against the extraterrestrial terrorists. Following the normal strategy game formula, X-COM: UFO Defense is able to remain fresh by offering new elements like ancient alien artifacts that when found give special abilities, and a highly original storyline that will keep you enthralled and engaged until the Earth is safe.***European version
[29]***US version
[29]***
[27]***[b]missing images:[/b] geoscape, title screen, tactical mission, base management (of proper quality/resolution) and possibly some other screens
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X-COM: Enforcer Hasbro Interactive (Microprose)2001Un curioso shoot'em up en 3D que funciona bastante bien, aunque desgraciadamente el único reto real son los monstruos finales de pantalla, ya que las misiones son de lo más simple y los enemigos son poco más que hordas descerebradas con ganas de morir.

5 de 10***[b]teleport[/b] — for the player this is when entering and leaving the levels. Large majority of the enemies arrive by teleporting, usually aided by the alien transmitters, and the professor-thing teleports weapons near you occasionally.
[b]autosave points[/b] — saves occur automatically between levels, before and after you've used your data points. Continuing/loading opens up the last mid-level data point spending screen.
[-]***If you enjoy slaughtering hundreds upon hundreds of fleshy blood-filled aliens, this is the game for you. Each level requires you to kill hundreds (possibly even thousands in some cases) of those pesky little things, repeatedly in almost neverending swarm that futilely tries to defeat you in turn. If there ever was a third person shooter that comes close to those shmups of old, this is it.***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows 95, 98 or ME
* 233 MHz Pentium CPU (266 MHz w/ software rendering)
* 32 MB RAM
* 500 MB HD space
* 8X CD-ROM drive
* 4 MB VRAM

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 400 MHz Pentium CPU
* 64 MB RAM
* Voodoo, TNT or GeForce GPU
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X-COM: First Alien Invasion  Hasbro Interactive1999 Windowslabelminimizeminimize
X-COM: Genesis Hasbro Interactive1999Was cancelled, along [game=#16900]X-COM: Alliance[/game], when Hasbro Interactive was closed down. Windowslabelminimizesubject
X-COM: Interceptor Microprose1998Llevando la jugabilidad de X-COM al espacio, en un sistema de defensa mucho más activo (tienes que ir a buscar a los aliens, ya no vale con esperar a que aparezcan) y con un control en forma de simulador de combate espacial sencillo de controlar pero con muchos elementos a tener en cuenta (armas disponibles, conteo de misiles, tipo y número de nave rival, situación de los compañeros)
Aunque no tiene esa dificultad característica de la saga (es más asequible), si que plantea los suficientes retos para ser un juego intrigante y divertido.

8 de 10***They're back...only this time the heinous aliens are out to destroy Earth and rule the new frontier. As X-COM commander, it's your sole duty to protect humanity and the prized mining operations in outer space. You must strategically equip your X-COM fighters, amass a formidable arsenal and then fulfill your mandate by going head-to-head with the devious element. The action is fast. And the opposing forces are wicked. But if you are smart, diligent and quick, you will prevail in a masterfully fought campaign to save our planet from perilous collapse.

Features:

* Wreak complete destruction in an addictive and seamless combination of combat action and strategy.
* Mastermind your plan by purchasing equipment, hiring pilots and researching new technologies.
* Pilot your own X-COM attack ship in a face-to-face 3D real-time first person environment.
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X-COM: Terror from the Deep  Microprose1996
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X-COM: Terror from the Deep  Paul Hibbard & Pete Moreland (Microprose Software)1995Latest version: 2.0 (as of ?)***The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.

Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.

In the dark depths of vast oceans, long sleeping forces are awakened by reanimation signals sent out across the galactic silence by their interstellar brothers and sisters. Slowly but surely, an army of hibernating alien sea creatures awakens. Your combat now extends to the strange new worlds of the deep where superior alien technologies threaten the very survival of this planet - your planet - Earth.

* Sequel to the hugely successful X-COM: UFO Defense
* Actual undersea geoscape mapping system with rich topographic detail
* Full array of undersea military technology
* Rich graphics feature water coloration and wrecks
* Multilevel tactical maps featuring both underseascapes and buildings
* Alien encyclopedia features mutation technology and new watery denizens
[Valve?]***[b]Minimum requirements:[/b]
* MS-DOS 5.0
* 386 33 MHz CPU
* 520 kB free conventional memory
* 3 MB free RAM
* VGA display

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 486 50 MHz CPU
* SVGA display
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X-COM: Terror from the Deep  2K Games (Microprose Software)1999The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.

Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.

In the dark depths of vast oceans, long sleeping forces are awakened by reanimation signals sent out across the galactic silence by their interstellar brothers and sisters. Slowly but surely, an army of hibernating alien sea creatures awakens. Your combat now extends to the strange new worlds of the deep where superior alien technologies threaten the very survival of this planet - your planet - Earth.***[Spanish]
Similar al primer X-COM, pero mucho mejor por la situación de acción total desde el principio, una dificultad endiablada (incluso más que el UFO Defense), una exigencia de toma de decisiones tan constante como cruel y la introducción del elemento agua y de misiones de defensa de civiles en el juego (añade una capa más a su inmensa complejidad)
Es algo mejor que el UFO Defense.

6 de 10

[English, Google Translate]
Similar to the first X-COM, but much better about the situation of mass action from the beginning, a devilish difficulty (even more than the UFO Defense), a requirement of decision making as constant as cruel and the introduction of the water element and civil defense missions in the game (adds one more layer to its immense complexity) It's better than the UFO Defense.

6 out of 10***[b]2.5D[/b] - tactical missions and most of the game is done with raster graphics, but the globe in geoscape is rendered with flat polygons for land and textured polygons for water.***This entry would still benefit from 2 screenshots, one from terror mission and another from underwater mission.***A very simple port of TFTD to Windows with no improvements or changes what-so-ever, just that it runs natively on Windows XP. Released only as part of [i]X-COM: Collector's Edition[/i] and for a time was available on Steam until they switched to running the old DOS version under DOSBox (around 2008-10-06).
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X-COM: UFO Defense Hasbro Interactive (Mythos Games)1999A very simple port of UFO Defense to Windows with no improvements or changes what-so-ever, just that it runs natively on Windows XP (and doesn't even do that very well). Released only as part of X-COM: Collector's Edition and for a time was available on Steam until they switched to running the old DOS version under DOSBox (around 2008-10-06). Windowslabelminimizeminimize
X-COM: UFO Defense  Microprose (Mythos Games)1994Un clásico de acción por turnos, que sigue manteniendo su inmensa dificultad (donde los enemigos muchas veces son más listos que tú y retirarse es una opción muy viable)
Visto desde hoy, peca de una interfaz complejísima e impracticable, en lo cual le supera el reciente XCOM: Enemy Unknown (a pesar de no tener las opciones de varias bases y su construcción en detalle)
Interesante desde el punto de vista histórico, pero a excepción del reto que supone no tiene nada que no se sienta anticuado y obsoleto.

5 de 10***CD-ROM version
[37]***Floppy disk version
[37]***Latest version: 1.4 (as of ?)***[i]UFO: Enemy Unknown[/i] was used in Russia and likely rest of the Europe as well.***[b]Minimum requirements:[/b]
* MS-DOS 5.0
* 386 20 MHz CPU
* 4 MB RAM (2 MB free)
* 560 kB free conventional memory

[b]Supported soundcards:[/b]
* SoundBlaster
* AdLib
* Roland LAPC-1
* PC Speaker***Two books were made of the game. One [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM_:_UFO_Defense_-_A_Novel]by Diane Duane[/url] in 1995 and another [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_UFO_Defense_Novel_%28Russian%29]by Vladimir Vasilyev[/url] in 1997, both bearing the name X-COM: UFO Defense.***You are in control of X-Com; an organisation formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

- Command deadly close-combat battles:
Shooting down UFOs is just the beginning; you must the lead a squad of heavily-armed soldiers across different terrains as they investigate the UFO crash site. Tackle the aliens with automatic rifles, rocket launchers and even tanks in the struggle to retrieve useful technology, weapons or life forms.

- Research and manufacture alien technologies:
Successful ground assault missions will allow X-Com scientists to analyse alien items. Each new breakthrough brings you a little closer to understanding the technology and culture of the alien races. When your engineers have amassed sufficient research data on their superior weapons and craft, they'll be available for your troops to use.

- Develop a strategy to save the Earth:
You must make every crucial decision as you combat the powerful alien forces. But you'll also need to watch the world political situation; governments may be forced into secret pacts with the aliens and then begin to reduce X-Com funding.
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X-COM: UFO Defense  Microprose (Mythos Games)1994You are in control of X-Com; an organisation formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

- Command deadly close-combat battles:
Shooting down UFOs is just the beginning; you must the lead a squad of heavily-armed soldiers across different terrains as they investigate the UFO crash site. Tackle the aliens with automatic rifles, rocket launchers and even tanks in the struggle to retrieve useful technology, weapons or life forms.

- Research and manufacture alien technologies:
Successful ground assault missions will allow X-Com scientists to analyse alien items. Each new breakthrough brings you a little closer to understanding the technology and culture of the alien races. When your engineers have amassed sufficient research data on their superior weapons and craft, they'll be available for your troops to use.

- Develop a strategy to save the Earth:
You must make every crucial decision as you combat the powerful alien forces. But you'll also need to watch the world political situation; governments may be forced into secret pacts with the aliens and then begin to reduce X-Com funding.
[Box blurb]
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X-COM: UFO Defense  Microprose (Mythos Games)1994 Amiga CD32labelimageminimize
XCOM 2 Feral Interactive (Firaxis Games;Feral Interactive)2016 Mac OS Xlabelminimizeminimize
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XCOM 2 2K Games (Firaxis Games)2016AI cheating
* Knowledge of all player troops once concealment is gone, which lets them target AoEs and such without ever having vision on them.
* Concealment patrol routes sometimes follow player position.
* Accuracy stat is not affected by as many things as it is for players.***The game starts roughly 20 years after the beginning of the first game from scenario where the war was lost before the players even began on the first game, effectively taking immediate loss right at game start as the canon ending for the previous game, thus making anything that happened in the first game not canon.
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XCOM 2 2K Games (Firaxis Games)2016 PS4labelminimizeminimize
XCOM 2 2K (Firaxis Games)2016XCOM 2 is the sequel to the award-winning strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Earth has changed and is now under alien rule.
Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
• XCOM ON THE RUN: Take command of the Avenger, an alien supply craft converted to XCOM's mobile headquarters. New open-ended gameplay lets you decide where to guide your strike team, how to grow popular support, and when to combat enemy counter-operations.
• RECRUIT RESISTANCE FIGHTERS: Five soldier classes, each with its own skill tree, let you create specific soldiers for your tactical plan.
• TACTICAL GUERRILLA COMBAT: New gameplay systems offer more tactical flexibility in combat. Use concealment to ambush enemy patrols. Loot enemies for precious gear and artifacts. Rescue VIPs and save fallen comrades by carrying them to the extraction point.
• A NEW BREED OF ENEMY: A diverse cast of enemies from powerful new alien species to the ADVENT, enforcers of the alien regime, offer a distinct tactical challenge.
• RESEARCH, DEVELOP AND UPGRADE: Configure and build rooms on the Avenger to give XCOM new capabilities on the battlefield. Use your Scientists and Engineers to research, develop and upgrade weapons and armor to fit your preferred tactics.
• ENGAGE IN HEAD-TO-HEAD MULTIPLAYER: Mix-and-match squads of humans and aliens and battle head-to-head on randomly-generated maps.***
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XCOM 2: Long War 2 Pavonis Interactive2017 Linuxlabelminimizeminimize
XCOM 2: Long War 2 Pavonis Interactive2017A massive free mod for XCOM 2 that's endorsed by the game's developer, Firaxis Games. Information around the internet suggests that Pavonis was hired to make the expanded Long War 2 mod after their success with the original. Windowslabelminimizeminimize
XCOM: Chimera Squad 2K (Firaxis Games)2020Player controls a multi-species SWAT team in a city built during the alien occupation of the previous game. Windowslabelminimizeminimize
XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2K Games (Firaxis Games)2012Recordando a los juegos tipo Tactics de los 90 desde el primer minuto, pero con un lavado de cara.

Especialmente encomiable el elemento de las decisiones incómodas (algo que desgraciadamente cada vez se ve menos) y la complejidad de los combates.

Pena no tener tiempo para disfrutarlo más, tiene una pinta bárbara.

Se acerca a la perfección del combate por turnos.

9 de 10***Overall a nice turn-based tactical game, but might not be really up to one's expectations if you go looking for another of the old XCOM games. In short, this new XCOM game is extremely simplified and cut down version of the old X-COM with great number of features missing with only a few new ones to its name.

For those familiar with old XCOM, here's a list of differences. Notably there's missing multiple bases for the player to operate, aliens do not set up bases (there's only one alien base in the game), alien craft activity is barely existing (~13 alien craft encountered before the game was over), terror missions and similar do not involve actual enemy craft going to the sites, your soldiers can't pick up enemy gear during missions, grenades and rockets are special one-use gear instead of actual inventory items, inventory overall is severely simplified to a point where its limitations don't make sense, the game does not simulate projectile trajectories except for missed shots destroying scenery (missed shots can no longer hit secondary targets) and auto/burst fire is treated as single shot in terms of hitting or not, as such cover is simply statistical wonder instead of literal cover (shots "penetrate" the cover - with no damage to the cover - when they hit the soldier hiding behind it rather than hitting exposed bits), alien craft interception relies on one-use power ups you need to craft (though they go largely unused), aliens do not attack XCOM base(s), you can only have one skyranger hence you're specifically forbidden to complete missions that appear "simultaneously" with others (you have to choose one, the others automatically fail, their timing and duration essentially synced), interceptor and skyranger management is simplified, chrysalids and robotic aliens can not be captured and studied, aliens do not have jobs (there's only one live specimen of each species to interrogate and beyond that, nothing), battle scanner is missing, arbitrary range limitations to weapons (not allowed to shoot if target is beyond certain range), incendiary weapons are missing, stun grenades are missing, quite a few alien species are missing, levels tend to be far smaller and streamlined (with very few exceptions), action points have been replaced with simplified version that has glaring limitations, soldiers have 360 degree vision, reloading and shooting in same turn is impossible, ammunition is handwaved away completely, aliens do not have morale, taking aliens alive has little far less use, and probably quite a few other things. New features, for those that care: upgrade system accessible via the foundry, psychic damage ability, classes, class perks, two-point system, and probably some others.

Personally I think this new XCOM is good game, but just does not hold up to what the old X-COM games were about. If you want the old experience, you're better off with the old games, UFO: Extraterrestrials, UFO: Aftermath/-shock/-light, or the many fan-made remakes.

Note that I played the game through on "classic" difficulty (the one just below brutal), which may have had something to do with some of my poor opinions.***EAN-13: [code]5 026555 056151[/code] (European/Worldwide)***[media=youtube]u9i6X5fgaCE[/media]
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2K Games (Firaxis Games)2012 X360labelimageminimize
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