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The ultimate in creepy turn-based strategy, now in high-value bundle form

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In the interminable wait for the announcement of a new breed of X-Com games, there’s no reason for you not to revel in this most grand royalty of PC gaming. The X-Com games work like Thunderbirds: your teams are being called out to various hotspots throughout the world from a central equipping station (like Tracey Island) where tech upgrades are researched. Then, when you get your team to the relevant isometric area with alien feet scuttling just below the fog of war, turn-based terror ensues.

Our personal favorite is X-Com: Terror from the Deep (a definite contender for hardest strategy game of all time) but being able to nab this alongside X-Com: UFO Defense, Interceptor, Enforcer and Apocalypse for what roughly equals a movie ticket is an outright steal. That said Interceptor, (ropey Wing Commander wannabe) and Enforcer (ropey third-person action) haven’t exactly weathered time with their dignity intact.

Currently only available on Steam.

Oct 30, 2008

You'll love
  • Royalty of PC gaming
  • Turn-based terror
  • Brilliant and challenging
You'll hate
  • Weak Interceptor installment
  • Aged Enforcer installment
  • Dated graphics

 
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jayson_90210  - 1 year 29 days ago 
wtf!

Don't know how I missed this release, gonna be firing up steam when I get home from work now. TFTD was damned hard though, never completed it
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grimafacia  - 1 year 11 days ago 
save, save and save. Thats the easiest way to complete TftD on hardest difficulty setting. Save before you fire, if you miss load. Feels like cheating though.
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X-COM Collection

Genre: Strategy
Release date: Oct 8, 2008
Published by: 2K Games
Developed by: Take2 Interactive
Min system requirements: Microsoft XP, Pentium II 233 MHz, Memory: 32 MB RAM, DX 8
Multiplayer Modes:
Online
4 player VS
9 AWESOME
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