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| capcom, recipes, alida, forever, ice cream, id, pilgrim, lucas, gothos, portal, forums, reporter, hardy, mirror, ion storm, igi, savegame, try, quiet, adventure games, | So too does UFO: Aftershock require a helping of patience, for it serves up its rewards in its own time and can't quite achieve its full potential. You will need to play it for a while before you stop being frustrated, before you figure out the labyrinthine online interface and some of the weirder new features. Second, this game is not a "Middlin'," it's a "Thumb Up." It's getting the lower score for stability online only, and I make no claims to its reliability on machines other than my own, where at times it was perfectly stable and online at other times so pulverizingly crash-happy that multiple uninstalls and reinstalls were necessary. If the crashes weren't so thermonuclear in nature, I'd have let them go, but more than once I had to turn to technical expertise that common gamers may not have in order to put Humpty together again. |
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| But the fact is X-Com is twelve years old, and memory has a way of polishing off the burrs and nits that flaw a game, leaving you with only the hard candy shell of perfection. UFO: Aftershock cannot measure up any more than UFO: Aftermath did, but it hits a lot closer to the mark. Though this sequel still lacks the political maneuvering, game-to-game variability and economics that were the beating heart of X-Com's magic, savegame Altar added savegame a lot of valuable stuff and reversed some of the more nonsensical design decisions that plagued Aftermath. A buddy savegame and I discovered that Aftermath got a lot better if we played it when drunk. Perhaps the greatest compliment I can pay its sequel is that no foreign chemicals are necessary to make it an enjoyable experience. It has rough edges, but it's a solid game. Just three notes we should get out of the way at the beginning: first, Aftershock is like a Chia pet. Smearing the seeds onto the ceramic cow is just the inaugural step; you have to wait a few weeks for the fur to grow and even then it never looks as nice as the one in the commercial. |
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