X-Com now on Steam.

[LCJr.]

<strong>[ Announcement ]</strong>

<p>If somehow you've missed these classics now's your chance to be one of the cool kids.</p><blockquote><p>Valve today announced that <a href="http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=find&cc=US&term=x-com" target="_blank">five games</a> from the legendary X-COM series have been released via Steam. The games are being offered for $4.99 per title, or $14.99 for the set of five - with an additional 10% savings offered during the first week of availability. </p></blockquote><p>If you're math skills aren't that good it comes out to $4.49 each.
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.gamershell.com/">Gamer's Hell</a></p>

 

[dagorkan]

$5 for X-Com? Who do they take us far?

Fuck Steam.

 

[Fez]

A whole 50 cents. How generous. I've bought all these games at least once already.

Still, should be interesting to see how well these old games sell considering we get told regularly that turn-based is old and dead and no one wants to play those games.

 

[Bluebottle]

What the fuck is Enforcer? It looks like an abomination.

When did that shit happen and, more importantly, why?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

If it means they work on a modern PC without any fucking around, I'm so there.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Everything seems to work on Vista except Terror From the Deep. Which is really annoying because TftD is the one I started with and the one I therefore love (Even though UFO is exactly the same game, there's something about the underwater settings that I like).

Rumours on the internets suggest Vista support for TftD is not far away though.

 

[Slaughter]

We've helped 2K Games test the X-COM games a little, and they will add the DOSBox version of TFTD soon. In fact, they'll include both versions (Windows and DOSBox).

 

[Truth]

So I take it <s>Irrational Games</s> 2K Boston's probably going to be announcing their X-com "spiritual successor" soon.

 

[Oarfish]

"We totally loved the originals, but.."

 

[dagorkan]

There's nothing spiritual about being a game industry whore

 

[Slaughter]

So I take it <s>Irrational Games</s> 2K Boston's probably going to be announcing their X-com "spiritual successor" soon.

Likely. I expect it to be built on the Bioshock engine...lo and behold Enforcer 2...