Play order? And is UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold part of the series?

[Sir Eyeball]

What is the play order of the 3 UFO games and id UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold a fourth edition?

[Jonathan Hunt]

First UFO: Aftermath.
Then UFO: Aftershock.
The third part of UFO: Afterlight.

UFO: Extraterrestrials is not part of the series

[Sir Eyeball]

Originally posted by jonathanhunt:

First UFO: Aftermath.
Then UFO: Aftershock.
The third part of UFO: Afterlight.

UFO: Extraterrestrials is not part of the series

thx will go again

[Đeath’ş Aļļ | Horst Fuchs]

You can skip this one. Its the worst UFO game for sure. Very very simplified concept of Enemy Unknown in every way.
From this trilogy only Afterlight is really worth to play today.

[Dumah]

Hard disagree. All of After... series are worth a play. For sure first one is much more simplistic than any OG trilogy games, but the atmosphere of decayed post apocalyptic world is what carying it. Also this is the only XComlike that actually bothered with explanation of why the hell bunch primitives are able to resist and defeat much more advanced extraterrestrial foe.

On other note because of its relative simplicity it is probably the easiest and fastest game to complete among all XComlikes, even on hardest difficulty with selfimposed ironman.

[Lanthrudar]

Originally posted by Đeath’ş Aļļ | Horst Fuchs:

You can skip this one. Its the worst UFO game for sure. Very very simplified concept of Enemy Unknown in every way.
From this trilogy only Afterlight is really worth to play today.

This one was out 9 years BEFORE Enemy Unknown. It's worth a try since you can get it for less than $2 on sale.

[Dumah]

Originally posted by Lanthrudar:

This one was out 9 years BEFORE Enemy Unknown. It's worth a try since you can get it for less than $2 on sale.

- he talks about original UFO: Enemy Unknown from 1994, which is still the best X-Com game to date.

[Sir Eyeball]

Originally posted by Dumah:

Originally posted by Lanthrudar:

This one was out 9 years BEFORE Enemy Unknown. It's worth a try since you can get it for less than $2 on sale.

- he talks about original UFO: Enemy Unknown from 1994, which is still the best X-Com game to date.

agree

[Jonathan Hunt]

Yes, the 1994 original is better than the 2012 remake.

[Sir Eyeball]

Originally posted by jonathanhunt:

Yes, the 1994 original is better than the 2012 remake.

I do like the new ones but the depth and especially the tech trees where just so great in the first

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by Sir Eyeball:

Originally posted by jonathanhunt:

Yes, the 1994 original is better than the 2012 remake.

I do like the new ones but the depth and especially the tech trees where just so great in the first

I know this is a old thread, but I strongly agree with this as well.

Especially when it comes to the Open source 'Open X-Com' project and all the mods and total conversions that take the deep fundamentals of the original game and really crank it up further.

Such as "X-Com Files" a mod based on Open X-Com that sets you in the grass roots days of the X-Com project where you're literally investigating paranormal reports in the 1990's starting out with little more than 2 agents in a public car investigating cultists, bizarre creatures and gangs and eventually leading up to the alien arrival. (Think X-Files that eventually becomes X-Com)

With a whole wealth of added mechanics and rules, such as aircraft actually requiring pilots which influence UFO fighting ability, ability to use auto-fire between two map points to deliver true area suppression and a whole lot more thanks to the open source nature of the underlining Open X-Com project.


To this day, the original X-Com game is still going strong and is much more than it ever was and is still growing which is a testament to how a iconic game can still deliver something newer titles can't even 30 years later.