X-COM Apocalypse, and whoever is left. First there was the land, then the sea, now just a city. Great Game!
User Rating: 9.3 | X-COM: Apocalypse PC
X-COM Apocalypse is my favorite because although just a city, that is all that is left. it is one of the only games that still runs with faster computers better even though I only play the turn-based battles. First you get the human soldiers, the Androids, and the Psionics. But also in the city, are the gangs and some of their own gang-made weapons. Also you can fight them also, along with the Cult of Sirius that will get more hostile the more you attack them. Add to that all the businesses, and flying air-units, like cars and interceptors, transports and the airports, and pretty soon your brain may feel like it was sucked out or some exploding dog looking spotted organic thing may be coming your way without drinking a drop of booze. With the game, again you start out with a base and can purchase others up to a limit for the difficulty you are playing. Without going into much detail it is like the other games although more interactive, and soon, you may get a bill from a company for damage done in the city. If you just hit the road missing ground cars or anything else in the game you will have to keep some roads open or go nowhere to get there except by flying. Besides the dimensional portals where the spaceships come through and you tend to fight or with the spacealiens landing their own people, pretty soon you may also be in panic mode, especially when one of your Squadies also go into panic mode. Then add the flying suits that your Squaddies can wear and the total concept of this game, you may feel that life should be great on this Planet because in this game you can destroy anything. One time I got a tank and leveled the Cult of Sirius's building, then they think I was going to pay them for the damages. Another time, I felt that if they wanted me as Commander against the spacealien's and the insanity of some civilians they can throw me in jail for stealing some weapons from the police station. Of course, the spacealiens may also be there, and you may get more Alerts then you knowo what to do with. I hate some of those buildings in the game like the Sewer Works, and if you play the game at a higher difficulty, then you may just have to run your own business to make ends meet. For awhile there in the game, perhaps it may be better just to have the spacealien's have the city, but still you were hired to defend against the spacealien invaders and save what is left of humanity, brainsuckers and all. Oh, and if you get the Collector's Edition, then don't leave the first disk in the CD-ROM drive you tossed out without checking to see if a disk for a game is first in the drive. I do have the second CD left, the one with Apocalypse on it though, and the others still on my old computer. Think I will try it on my new computer, since I been through other computers also with this game. One thing I found out, is that with this game, it still relatively runs at the same speed, no matter what computer a player plays it on. In fact on later computers, this game did run better than it did on my old 486 computer before.
