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There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
X-COM: Apocalypse is a strategy, turn-based and tactical game
developed by MicroProse Software and Inc
and published by 2K.
Released on September 04th 2008 is available only on Windows.
It has received 897 reviews of which 792 were positive and 105 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 1.24€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 0.53€ on Eneba.
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- Supported OS: Microsoft® 2000/XP/Vista®
- Processor: Pentium 90MHz or better
- Memory: 16Mb RAM
- Graphics: Supported 32Mb Graphics Card
- Sound Cards Supported: Sound Blaster and 100% compatibles, Microsoft Sound System, ESS Audio Drive, ProAudio Spectrum, Ensoniq Soundscape and Gravis UltraSound
- Hard Drive: 60 MB Hard Disk Space
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My favorite of the X-COM series, and arguably one of the deepest, most simulation-y games ever made. If you have a low tolerance for babysitting your units or micromanaging inventories, this game isn't for you. But if you love deep simulations and tactical combat, Apoc is a great bet.
X-COM: Apocalypse seems to be polarising for the X-COM community. It was my first X-COM game, so I will admit that I am already biased towards it over the others. In my opinion it is one of the best games I've played, X-COM or not. The depth and scope of the game is incredibly satisfying between the Tactical Missions, Cityscape and Base Management, all of which synchronise and balance with each other perfectly. If you are able to shoot down the UFOs in the Cityscape quickly, you can avoid prolonged infestations, if you are proactive with hunting the aliens at the locations UFOs visit, you can reduce the alien impact your team has to deal with, maintain good standing with the Mega-Primus' denizens, and increase your weekly funding. If you play your Tactical missions strategically, you can get and research new technology sooner. If you increase funding you can acquire new bases, vehicles, agents, scientists and equipment. You can play hard to make your life easier, or not and it will become harder. The game has excellent progression start to finish. The interface may seem overwhelming at first, but it is easy and intuitive to figure out as you play. It also isn't critical to fully learn to be able to play the game. Tips: Save often - there's an "Enter CD ROM" bug which can block your game at random, rare enough to not be intrusive, but then of course it hits when you're not expecting it and you'll need a save to recover. Keep a few different saves, a normal Cityscape/Base save, a Tactical Save, and a rolling backup save for those times where you've saved yourself into an impossible situation. Purchaser beware: this is a DOS-Box game and runs at the original resolution. The game starts in full screen by default and is fully stretched out and unpleasant on a wide screen monitor. You can ALT-Tab to window it, but it will be tiny on the screen in windowed mode.
9 out of 10 Probably one of my all time favorite games as a kid. If you can get past the old schools graphics this game is huge and deep with great storyline and a full city of different organizations with their own alliances and factions. It's also kind of like a early 4x game because you fight in missions raids ufo recoveries and the city or world map you can still use your vehicle arsenal to try to do damage to enemies. I really enjoyed the fact the enemy corporations can literally run out of money if you do enough damage to them so they can't really fight back if you just keep smashing their corporate buildings down over and over again. But that's usually not the way to play. The aliens can also take over enemy corporations slowly so you have to keep an eye on that or you'll get overrun.
One of the best games in the Xcom universe that they never tried to replicate. This game was so much fun and took up so much of my youth and continues to take up peoples times today. I wish the OpenApoc was easier to install but its github looks complicated. Maybe oneday 2k will remake X-com Apoc into X-com 3 or maybe phoenix Point 2 and Phoenix Point 3 will follow the amazing paths.
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Frequently Asked Questions
X-COM: Apocalypse is currently priced at 1.24€ on Steam.
Yes, X-COM: Apocalypse is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 1.24€ on Steam.
Yes, X-COM: Apocalypse received 792 positive votes out of a total of 897 achieving a rating of 8.33.
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X-COM: Apocalypse was developed by MicroProse Software and Inc and published by 2K.
Yes, X-COM: Apocalypse is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse is not playable on MacOS.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse is not playable on Linux.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse is not playable on Steam Deck.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse is not playable on Steam Machine.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse does not support VR.
X-COM: Apocalypse is a single-player game.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse does not currently offer any DLC.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, X-COM: Apocalypse does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, X-COM: Apocalypse is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
MicroProse Software, Inc
Publisher
2K
Release
04 Sep 2008
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