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[Quintopotere]

Just a news for the (many) fans of the Ufo series: as you can see here they're are making a new sequel!

[TheChosen]

new strategic game with resources management and terraforming possible in later stage of the game

Oh no! Another strategy game ripoff!

[Kearnsy]

I have Aftershock and its not bad at all. I not sure that I will want this one, it doesn't have the same charm and atmosphere + the research and manufacturing is very long.
eg: if you want to make a shotgun you must:
research human weapons then
firearms then
shotguns
Then you can manufacture it.
(each research item is equivilent to waiting and completing around 3 missions and the timing is longer than UFO: alien defence)

[efthimios]

I managed to play Aftershock demo for a while and I was shocked. The battle system they use works really really bad.
It is supposed to be an improvement for less clicks over the turn base game, instead I found it more annoying, more clicks and less accurate than the turn based games.
Since they have decided to *meep* the turn based gaming (some companies, not all), at least make it full real time instead of this monstrosity.

[BeefontheBone]

I bought Aftermath, got bored by it about three quarters of the way through - the difficulty jumps around in an irritating way, so it's dull for ages then suddenly hard, the combat does indeed require more effort than it did as TBS, the pathfinding/level design is terrible and repetitive, and the plot starts out promising but quickly descends into cliches. I tried the Aftershock demo and they didn't seem to have changed any of that from what I could see.

[Eagle of Fire]

I have Aftermath myself too and I must say that I really wasted money on that game. For all the arguments already mentionned above and by the fact that it take so long to complete a single mission by planning all your soldiers that the simpliest mission take age in comparison to what it really give out to you.

I never managed to play it past about half the game... Too boring. So, I am really not looking at the sequel of that game. Not to say that it has absolutly nothing related to UFO: Ennemy Unknown! That's a promotion ripoff and I hate those.

[SirPeter]

Aftermatch, Aftershock, Afterlight. Well aren't they original.
They need to play Ufo 1 and 2 again and make a real ufo game with less pretty 3d stuff. Simplicity and gameplay that's what they need to make.

[punch999]

They need to stop starting the games names with a A for that matter

[BeefontheBone]

Nah, they should avoid that issue by just stopping starting the games.

[Hooch]

Afterlight..... My opinion.

I am not sure that it is worth the money at the moment but its better than aftershock and aftermath.
When I first started playing with it the interface confused the hell out of me and thats a good thing. I like a bit of a learning curve.
Once you have worked out how to organise your people into different departments where they can do the most good (which is a constant juggling act) the game becomes fun.
Training is a bit of a stab in the dark but I am sure I will work it out later in the game.
Production is a must and if you have no-one assigned to making ammo you will soon run out.
The bit I haven't quite worked out yet is research, my problem is that I have not got a technology tree to work too but I guess that keeps you thinking about what the technology will lead too???
The tactical battles are beautiful! and varied. I have been playing for about 8 hours now and the battle scapes are different for each area, as are the insertion points. The MOBs are pretty nasty too.
I can't see that there are many indoor scenarios??
I am enjoying this game (fingers crossed that the don't FUBAR the middle/ending)
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