UFO Alien Invasion - Free game
 

Remember that old turn-based tactics series named XCOM a.k.a. UFO? Back in the early '90s it was one of the best and culminated with the masterpiece XCOM Apocalypse. The spiritual successor to this series, the new UFO After... (Afterlight, Afterglow, Aftershock a.s.o.) tried to revive the spirit of the old days, but is still flawed with bugs and conception errors. Now, a team of enthusiasts developed a real successor the XCOM, named UFO Alien Invasion, and are releasing it as freeware at:

http://ufo.myexp.de/

It is fully turn-based and goes against the current trend of CTB (continuous turn-based). This is how the XCOM series was devised in the first place and it really catches the spirit of the original. BTW, the project is still under development and looks really promising.
Hope you will enjoy it.

I'm going to get it now. Turn based is more fun.

Wow, is that a free updated X-Com? :D

Sounds like a cool deal. Will have to get that eventually.

It's pretty good. I'm impressed, doubly so because it's free. Thanks for letting us know.

I'd love another go at X-Com. I've played through the original a few times! I own the follow ons, but never enjoyed them like the original.

-S

Yes, same here: turn-based rules.

Oh...now this looks Kickarse! Downloading now!! Thanks for the heads up!!! :up: :up: :up: :up: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:

anyone having played the very old "Breach" for Amiga? That one spend me a few nights, glued to the keyboard...

http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/133/


All download mirrors I tried (for UFO) don't work, btw, or produce just 2-4 kb/sec. Which would take me half a day to download those 250 MB.

I'm getting a fairly steady 233kb/s from kent.dl. Didn't get anything from Switzerland...so try Kent or perhaps Ireland.

Breach was good, and it was for the PC as well as AMiga. If you give me long enough, I can find Breach 3 floppies!

-S

Alternate download on the site of a Romanian PC magazine:

http://www.xtrempc.ro/modules.php?sk...getit&lid=1976

Actually, this is where I found it first. I got a steady 35-40 k here.

No, i don't get through:

"You can download this file only using a web browser: XtremPC Downloads "

Clicking the link sends me into a nirwana, extremely low intensity traffic, but no download initiated. IE7, medium settings. I assume that qualifies for the description of a web browser, yes? :88)

Oops, seems IE7 doesn't work. I am using Mozilla Firefox, and I had no problems. When I tried with IE7 I got just the same results as you. This still leaves you with the original site of the game (first post).

How finished is this version? It looks great.:rock:

Xcom ruled. I especially liked the tracking system of ufo sightings and scrambling jets to intercept. Then sending a recovery teams to crash sites. Never has there been a game like it. Can't way to try this.