Played me some X-Com this week - both the old and the new.
Of the two, I prefer the old version, but until the end story not by too terribly much.
The ending of the new game drowns you in a sea of Lame!
There are some very good things about the new game, and some very... not good... things as well. Mostly good, truth be told.
Battles are remarkably linear - the maps channel the battle to go one direction. (Bad)
Graphics are beautiful. So is the music. (Good)
Key events determine what technologies become available. (Mostly Bad)
Voice acting is decent, if repetitious. Voice acting is decent, if repetitious. (Neutral. Neutral.)
Combat is lethal in the early game. (Excellent!)
Leveling gives perks. (Excellent!)
But the ending... oh dear gods, I almost quit the game completely. It was a Fallout 3 level of bad ending, but at least it wasn't a Mass Effect 3 level of bad ending. Just... lame and linear.
Until that point I had fun. The game was linear, but it was fun. But that ending....
X-Com: Enemy Unknown on the other hand... there is a reason folks still play it, almost twenty years later.
The Auld Grump, makes me want to dust off my X-Com Spycraft campaign.
