Three Moves Ahead 92: Classic Game Analysis - X-Com

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2010

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

PCGamer's Dan Stapleton joins Troy, Rob and Bruce to talk about what made 1994's X-Com one of the best strategy/tactics games ever made. Tension, atmosphere, UI, level blending, real time v turn baed and indie efforts to bring the magic back. Hideous UK Box Art Xenonauts UFO: The Two Sides Dan vs Evan in The Two Sides Tom Chick on X-Com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:05.3	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and you are listening to Episode 92.
0:09.5	Regular panelists, freelance writer Rob Zakney.
0:12.3	Good evening.
0:13.8	Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:15.3	Yes.
0:16.1	Hello gamers.
0:18.0	No funny accents this time.
0:19.9	Next time.
0:24.7	Next time. And joining us this week, a very special guest.
0:30.0	The reviews editor-in-air from PC Gamer, one of my bosses, so I have to be nice to him tonight.
0:34.6	Review the editor for PC Gamer, Mr. Dan Stapleton. Dan, glad you could join us.
0:36.4	Well, I do feel very special. Thank you, Troy.
0:42.1	We have Dan on to do a show that a lot of people have been asking about.
0:46.2	We do classic game analyses from time to time.
0:49.0	We've only done a couple of them. I'd like to do them more often.
0:52.9	And I've gotten a lot of emails saying, when is XCOM? When is XCOM?
0:56.1	Here is XCOM. This week we want to talk about XCOM, the XCOM series. What makes it so great? Why it has been, people have tried
1:03.0	to copy it or copy parts of it, but it hasn't really been surpassed, in my view. And what made
1:08.9	its special combination of strategy, RPG, and action-y-tactic stuff into a really special blend that in many ways epitomize the era where it came out of, an era of experimentation, something we don't see a lot of anymore, at least not on that grand genre-making scale.
1:29.5	So, Dan, you're a special guest. I'm going to start with you.
1:33.8	X-com, when did you first play it? And did you know you're playing something special when you got your hands on it?
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