Sudden Strike

[Maniac]

Anyone who have played squad leader will like this game alot!
Run to the stores folks :-)

Was quite some time ago an stand alone game got my attention like this! Immersion is great in this game.

[-lynx-]

"No CD" patch anyone?

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lynx
13 Sqn RAF

[StSanta]

squad leader sucked though. The LOS algorithms used were pure bs, graphics bad and overall bad overview.

XCOM I and II got it right, nothing else has come close since  .

<still playes Terror From The Deep>

 

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StSanta
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
while(!bishRookQueue.isEmpty() && loggedOn()){
30mmDeathDIEDIEDIE(bishRookQueue.removeFront());
System.out.println("LW pilots are superior");
myPlane.performVictoryRoll();
}

[-duma-]

Lol Santa, I still play UFO: Enemy Unknown   TFTD is just plain too ugly for me, and the storyline's no fun  

Besides, underwater grenades?

[Maniac]

HIJACKERS!!!!  

Seriously! its an great wwii real time strategy game, its simply great, beats the hell out of the close combat series.
 http://www.suddenstrike.com/index2.html



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AH : Maniac
WB : -nr-1-

[Maniac]

Hehe djust read the release dates for the US : Februrary 2001

Sometimes its great being European hehe.

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AH : Maniac
WB : -nr-1-

[StSanta]

Yah duma, Enemy Unknown RULES. But UFO II has some features that were missing in UFO I, like the ability to scroll in yer weapons inventory.

I gotta find it - have it zipped on three disks somewhere. Hm...  .

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StSanta
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
while(!bishRookQueue.isEmpty() && loggedOn()){
30mmDeathDIEDIEDIE(bishRookQueue.removeFront());
System.out.println("LW pilots are superior");
myPlane.performVictoryRoll();
}

[Maniac]

UFO also had an kickass immersion factor, i remember the first time i played UFO, i was on nails hehe

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AH : Maniac
WB : -nr-1-

[-duma-]

Actually UFO 1 was one of the first PC games I played. I had the UK PC Zone preview release demo of it a few months before it was to be released - unfinished code and with some strange effects. What made that so immersive was that there was no introductory manual to the game - you honestly had no idea what you were facing   Had half of my troops shot in the darkness by an enemy I couldn't see before finally stumbling on one of the sectoids, took him out in crossfire   When my last troops stumbled across the UFO I had no idea how to get in at first.. ah, great immersive game and has lasted very well through the years  

And Chrysallids, agh! I sure as hell make sure to conserve time units every round and take up covering positions whenever those guys are around  

[StSanta]

Agh Chryssalids! Those zombie making BATARDS!

We NEED a game like xcom again. Seriously, it has lasted a LONG time and is STILL the best in the genre, all these years later.

Me, I don't make us of flying suits or those guided rocket thingies, finding um boring. That game ROCKS  .

Yum, multiplayer, I'd be the aliens. Cool. That'd rule.  .

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StSanta
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
while(!bishRookQueue.isEmpty() && loggedOn()){
30mmDeathDIEDIEDIE(bishRookQueue.removeFront());
System.out.println("LW pilots are superior");
myPlane.performVictoryRoll();
}

[-duma-]

I always find it most fun to take small 4-man teams and just build them up to amazing levels. Had one guy with other 70 bug kills, not counting grenades   Attrition rate gets kind of high during the later levels, since I only use earth-tech weapons... I wanted to try and make a real-life weapons conversion a while ago, will have to do that sometime  

Check out http://www.edf-project.org/main.php  for a fan-created game in progress based on X-COM and http://maximumdreamland.com/  for info on a new X-COM-setting game from the makers of UFO  

[Maniac]

I was pretty young when i played UFO for the first time (had an 386 25 MHZ wich was impressive then)so the thing that made it really immersive was that you could change the names of the team members, hehe that was advanced  



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AH : Maniac
WB : -nr-1-

[leonid]

Maniac,
Do you know if they're going to patch a random game setup for Sudden Strike?

[Rickenbacker]

I still remember buying X-com (it wasn't called UFO in the states) and me and my roommate fighting over the CD every night until we found out how to make it play without one  .

I have played Squad Leader, not the computer game though. I've also played the demo of Sudden Strike, and I've never seen a game portraying itself (erroneously) as "realistic" that blew such incredible chunks. It's Command & Conquer with Panthers, I couldn't believe it. Is this just the demo or is the full game pretty much the same crap?

 

[Daff]

Test (Sorry)