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Number of Ratings:   3
Number of Reviews:   1

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Peter Bex says:
Fantastic revival of this great ...  
5.0
 
written over 10 years ago

XCom was one of my favorite games back in the 90s, but it was always plagued with bugs and tricky to get it to run properly (as many DOS games often were). I've succesfully got my copy of the original game to run under DOSBox, but it consumes a lot of system resources and feels clunky, requiring you to keep around an installed copy and a "CD-ROM" directory containing the original CD contents. And of course the bugs were never fixed.

Now, finally, thanks to OpenXcom there's a way to play it natively, fast and without bugs, but with plenty of awesome small and several not-so-small tweaks, which make the game that much more fun and convenient to play. Things like scroll via mouse drag, customisable keybindings and easier access to all the menus make the game a lot more convenient to play, without damaging the original game's soul. You can even crank up the difficulty beyond the already infamous difficulty level of the original game by enabling some of the modified "advanced game rules" if you like torturing yourself :)

Finally, I have to say this project has a very friendly and energetic community, patches are gladly accepted and the game is easy to build on any platform due to its clean and portable codebase. In short, it's simply the best available version of this classic game, backed by a great community.

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Peter Bex says:
Fantastic revival of this great ...  
5.0
 
written over 10 years ago

XCom was one of my favorite games back in the 90s, but it was always plagued with bugs and tricky to get it to run properly (as many DOS games often were). I've succesfully got my copy of the original game to run under DOSBox, but it consumes a lot of system resources and feels clunky, requiring you to keep around an installed copy and a "CD-ROM" directory containing the original CD contents. And of course the bugs were never fixed.

Now, finally, thanks to OpenXcom there's a way to play it natively, fast and without bugs, but with plenty of awesome small and several not-so-small tweaks, which make the game that much more fun and convenient to play. Things like scroll via mouse drag, customisable keybindings and easier access to all the menus make the game a lot more convenient to play, without damaging the original game's soul. You can even crank up the difficulty beyond the already infamous difficulty level of the original game by enabling some of the modified "advanced game rules" if you like torturing yourself :)

Finally, I have to say this project has a very friendly and energetic community, patches are gladly accepted and the game is easy to build on any platform due to its clean and portable codebase. In short, it's simply the best available version of this classic game, backed by a great community.

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