games website "XCOM: Enemy Unknown" Demo detailed review: large capacity with full sincerity

The original UFO series was released in 1993 and is widely considered to be one of the best games in gaming history. In early 2012, 2K officially announced a sequel to the series, XCOM Enemy Unknown, which is a remake of the old XCOM 1 generation.

When it comes to the UFO series, it was quite beautiful on the DOS platform, which was considered by many people to be the most classic strategy game, and later games such as the Iron and Blood Alliance are the descendants of the UFO series, this series has been out to 7 generations, but the production company has dropped, and then the copyright to 2K.

Seeing now the Iron and Blood alliance and other children mixed wind, 2K naturally can not keep down, to perform the classic this good play, 2K recently released the "Ufos unknown enemy" trial version, making the game before the official release of the player can get a glimpse of the pipe.

Comparing the old version and the new version of the picture makes people feel like a different world

Another big move away from XP

Nowadays, the game that abandons XP system can be said to be more and more, "Need for Speed 16: Fugitive Rush", "Battlefield 3", "Sniper Elite V2", "Dust: Battle", "Ghost Recon 4: Future Soldier", "Hot Blood Rogue" these games that have been released this year do not support XP system.

Oh and "Traces of Doom" is also not support XP, in addition to those big books that will be released such as "Call of Duty 9: Black Ops 2", "Shame", "Killer 5: Pardon" and this "UFO unknown enemy" are all not support XP, after all, XP system and DX9 are backward products, is bound to be eliminated.

This generation has stuck with DX9 for too long because it accommodates PS3 and XBOX360 console games, but XP's abdication is already an unstoppable trend.

The author was a firm XP party loyalist, but after the "blood rogue" came out also had to follow the trend of the installation of WIN7, now XP and WIN7 dual system, old games and new games are not wrong, if you do not want to give up XP so soon, may as well install dual system, otherwise more and more new games in the future can not play.

On behalf of the game manufacturer, I solemnly inform you of an unfortunate news, we will not appear on the XP system in the future, you see what to do.

Another big picture created by Unreal 3

Since the original is a very old DOS game, so the new version of the game's screen and the old version than the evolution of N levels, thanks to the powerful Unreal 3 engine, the game's screen shows the level it should be.

In addition, from the perspective of the screen style, whether it is the design of buildings, or the character modeling, or the tank, or the interface style, there is a certain similarity with StarCraft 2, I do not know whether this is an accident.

Of course, the picture of this game and today's big games are inevitably a little stretched, many details are rough, for example, when the camera is close to the characters, those walls look like paper, it seems that the technology of the last generation is enough to cope with these parts, so the details of the building are rough.

However, it is no wonder that such a game that pays attention to tactics and killing the enemy, it is estimated that few players will carefully observe the design of the wall like this detail control.

The graphics created by Unreal 3 make combat feel like the spirit of a war machine

Changes to the game system

Compared with the original, the biggest change in this game is the game system, after all, the original is nearly 20 years ago, so many years, the tastes and preferences of players have changed dramatically, if the system is still the same as before, it is bound to cause a lot of dissatisfaction.

In general, the new version of the system and the old version compared to simplify a lot, but also suitable for the taste of players in the fast food era, in the year because the game screen can not attract players, so in the content are more complex, so this is also the old version and the new version of the system is not the same important reason.

In addition, whether this system change is progress or regression is a matter of opinion, and it can not be determined before the official version comes out.

Ufos series has always been a feature of diversified management, the fun of the game is management, difficulty is also management, this game is the same, players need to consider a number of business elements, such as buying, research and development, construction, training, and so on, and to manage these east is not different from a huge system engineering.

Although the degree of complexity is not like The Three Kingdoms series of games, it is not easy to carry out comprehensive consideration and balance various elements.

Managing and training good soldiers is no easy task

Music and sound effects

The music of this work is worth mentioning, because the music style of Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution is the same, it is the kind of future science fiction style space electronic music, I do not know whether the composer is the same person.

The roots of this music can be traced back to the Greek music master Vangelis, who showed this style in the science fiction classic film Blade Runner many years ago, and the music Mr. Bean played in the recent Olympic Games is his film's famous song Chariots of Fire.

It can be said that music is a big highlight of this work. As for the sound of the game, it is very normal, whether it is explosion sound or combat sound is plain.

Three levels of sincerity

Unlike the trial version of many games with only one or two levels, this trial version can play to three levels, which is full of sincerity, but on the other hand, it also makes this trial version full of 5.72G, which can be described as a small water pipe user's nightmare, you know that the "Dark Lineage 2" and "Dark Souls Sushi version" official version of the game are not so big.

What magic is this, I am puzzled by, but before the official version of the game comes out, these three levels can also make players play for a while.

Conclusion

This year, fast-paced games are everywhere, and the kind of game that requires overall strategic thinking is less and less, so the emergence of "Ufos unknown enemies" can be said to be a relatively rare thing, I do not know whether this game can re-series the style of the original time, until the official version comes out, we can know what it is.

It's fun to play the demo before the official version comes out

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