X-COM: Terror from the Deep

GoG set it up so it didn't play right sometimes and im mad so deal with it

This is a great turn based strategy game. It has variety of enemies and maps, the first time player on a blind playthrough will be surprised for sure. There are different approaches for every situation. You can develop individual characters and the technology available to you. You can build you bases and you need to consider the space devoted to research, manufacturing, habitation, etc and the location (your ships need time to reach places). I have spend hundreds of hours playing this game, still I never make it to Mars (final level/stage). Back then, before the wide spread adoption of internet this game was shipped with a weird bug in its technology tree. Some very specific combination of researched tech made for the player impossible to research the technology need to beat the game. The patch was available reasonably soon, but I found about it years later.

XCOM Terror from the Deep was indeed a BAD re-skin of the first one. The setup bellow the water was interesting, the new things to tactics worked out well, but in general has some big flaws. - Graphics were horrible, in artistic terms, compared to the first XCOM. Characters, weapons designs, spaceships, everything lost their manga feeling pixel art and became a strange mess. - Difficulty is absolutely unbalanced, trying to make a harder XCOM than the previous, just to appear a more "modern advanced game". - Many "underwater" gadgets feel like the idea of sub-aquatic XCOM was just "patched up" in the last minute over the original XCOM. I give it 3 stars because there are not many games like this anymore, it still drinks of what it was good in the first one, and because nostalgia. But in it´s own time I were given it 2 Stars.