Which classic Amiga games do you want to see remade on the A1

[Darrin]

by mikeymike on 2002/12/15 11:15:33

UFO: Enemy Unknown

Oh yeah!!!  One of my UFO AGA disks died and I looked everywhere for an ADF file to recreate my "diseased" disk with no avail (the ECS versions are posted everywhere).  Then I was lucky enough to come across a PC CD ROM containing UFO:  EU, UFO: TFTD and UFO: A for $10!!!  I still play the first 2 at work on a regular basis and the least said about the third "offering" the better (damn, it sucks like a priest at choir practice).  One problem with the PC disk is that the first one has a habbit of crashing every so often when it tries to display the mission statistics screen after the last alien is killed, so you have to save the game on a regular basis (I've tested this on 5 different PC's).

Anyway, the first 2 UFO games are prime examples of classic games that only require a little spit-n-polish to bring them up to date... and I don't mean making them 3D shooters.

The success of games like Diablo 2 and Civilization 3 proove that you don't need to write a 3D virtual shooter in order to sell software.

[Darrin]

KingTutt wrote:
I'm not entirely familiar with the UFO series. Can someone post the order and the premise behind each title,

XCOM and UFO - Enemy unknown are the same game.  For some reason it was referred to as XCOM in the USA and UFO-EU in Europe.

If I remember right, the PC version and the Amiga AGA version came out about the same time.  The games are virtually identical except that the PC version adds a "darkness" effect so that in a low-light mission the terrain is brighter around your troops'  field of vision allowing aliens to hide in the shadows.  However, the sound on the Amiga version is better.

Much later, Microprose managed to hack down the game enough so that it would run on an ECS Amiga, but it looks UGLY!!!

The sequal, UFO-Terror from the Deep, never made it to the Amiga, but sold very well on the PC.  The gameplay is very similar and the graphics improved.

Both XCOM and UFO-TFTD were MS DOS games, but the third game, XCOM-Apocalypse came out for Winzdoze.  Unfortunately, XCOM-A looks and feels completely different the first 2 games and I've never been able to "get into it".

There is a fourth (and final?) game called XCOM-Interceptor which I believe is a 3D space combat game where you get to take the fight to the Aliens.  I've never played it so I can't really comment on it.

Hasbro Interactive have release a compilation CD for the PC containing the first three games called "X-COM Collector's Edition" with the first 2 games now "supposedly" updated to run on Windoze.  I say "supposedly" because I've tested the first game on 5 different PC's (eMachines, HP x 2, Compaq, Dell) running Win98 and ME, with differnt graphics cards and they are all prone to random crashing when the game attempts to change screen modes.  No update/patch is available on the Hasbro website.  Your only option is to keep saving the game so you don't have to backtrack too far into the game when it goes down.

I hope this helps :-)