Posted on: August 11, 2020

Darth_SHAKER

Игр: 472 Отзывов: 10

Non-official remake of the first X-Com

This game is almost an exact port of X-Com Enemy Unknown (UFO Defense) from Microprose. It has modern resolutions, new sprites and fixes the primary problems of the original title. Overall is a better version of UFO Defense. The bad things are on the art department. Under average sprites, poor aesthetic on the menus and forgettable soundtrack. Despite not being inspired at all on this things, the game is the best way to experience the original X-Com nowadays.

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Posted on: December 6, 2014

blazicekj

Игр: 58 Отзывов: 4

A great game, but poorly developed

Basically, I bought the game in the beta a bit before release. Judging by the forum activity and my own experience, the Mac version of the game is pretty much just a poorly done wine port, which is full of game crashing bugs. The only official response to some of these over at the forums so far has been basically: Tough luck. I like the game very much, but I sincerely regret buying it now. In short, if you're not on Windows, don't buy this.

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Posted on: June 8, 2022

epoo1

Игр: 227 Отзывов: 5

Enjoyable but not without grave flaws

I really enjoyed my first hour or so of Xenonauts. The artstyle is nice--I really like the early 1980s vibe--but soon my impression fell flat on its face. You will find eventually that everything is stacked against the player in an unfair way. I can accept aliens being very accurate at long distances, but I cannot accept my soldiers not being able to hit the broad side of a barn--especially a barn they are an arm's length from. Who is hiring these bozos? We're trying to defend the planet Earth! When you manage your soldiers at base, many of them are described as having combat experience in this or that war etc. But that cannot be believed at all once you see how they perform on the battlefield. They have the same firearms experience as the isolated natives on North Sentinel Island. Unless you rigorously save-scum, expect to lose half a ground team each excursion. Ground combat is astoundingly unbalanced in other ways. For instance, Time Units, which manage how much your soldiers can do in one turn, were implemented in an astoundingly unbalanced manner. To illustrate this fact, you can't move your MG a few feet forward AND have him shoot a burst. Well, you can't count on anybody hitting the aliens anyway, so the MG is just a waste. Don't even bother to set him up in cover a few turns ahead--the aliens will insta-kill him in full cover regardless. Another poorly implemented feature is reaction fire. Expect aliens to fire on your soldiers when they cross paths during your turn; do NOT expect your soldiers to do the same on the aliens' turn. Sometimes they might, but their horrible accuracy precludes any effective resistance. Sometimes they will let an alien waltz out from his UFO, insta-kill one of your soldiers, and then waltz back inside. Why did nobody return fire? I guess Anton Dyban's experience in Afghanistan taught him to do otherwise. In any game based on X-Com, ground combat can make or break the game. In Xenonaut's case, ground combat is pure rubbish.

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Posted on: May 11, 2015

Cadmus02

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Игр: 47 Отзывов: 2

Doesn't replace X-Com

Very obviously an update to the classic X-Com. This is not a bad game by any means. But it invites comparison with a classic. It does have better graphics, although the tiny fonts can be annoying at times. The lore is very good and very evocative. However the tactical combat is not as satisfying as X-Com. The terrain doesn't have the same level destructibility and requires heavier weapons to knock walls down. There isn't the variety in special weapons either, no HE packing autocannons or incendary rockets. If you find X-Com's graphics to old or unappealing you may really like this game, or if you love X-Com and you want a slightly different change of pace.

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Posted on: March 27, 2017

Hajen

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Игр: Отзывов: 1

Competent clone of the original XCOM

Xenonauts is a complete remake of the original 1994 XCOM, down to a microscopic level. Things have been renamed, the graphics have been changed, a few game aspects have been slightly simplified but the core gameplay is still very much intact from the 1994 version. As for the negatives, the devs haven't made too much effort to innovate on the 1994 experience. In my opinion that's not a huge problem as XCOM 1994 is a very well-designed and coherent game on its own. There are a few areas where I think the devs could have done a bit more to improve on the original game; notably I think there is much too little variation in the level design (a problem that the original XCOM also had) so be prepared to play the same desert oil derrick / rural farm / generic industrial complex levels over and over again. Some people complain about the graphics being bad; in my opinion that doesn't matter at all. Cool graphics isn't what makes XCOM good and there are already good graphics-focused XCOM remakes out there such as XCOM 2012 by Firaxis. Xenonauts focuses entirely on the gameplay which is the correct decision in my opinion. All in all, a solid buy for XCOM fans and probably for fans of the wider TBS genre, but don't expect anything radically different from the 1994 game.

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