Freedom Force and X-COM bundles $2 on Steam this weekend

I wasn't going to either. But then Pyschonauts was 2 dollars. And now this. Luckily I already got the freedom force games from another steam deal, but I need to get the x com games darn it. I keep hearing how good they are.

Well from what I remember of TFTD, you'd have to be insane to own it. That game was really friggin' hard to beat! I mean you'd have to be extremely lucky just to go by a month or two without them cutting all your funds!

Still an amazingly fun game though, even if I never did get anywhere far with it.

I hope that happens one day, but so far, there's no D&D games on Steam at all. It's a shame because Temple of Elemental Evil needs to get on there.

I hope so. I'd love to see a new Freedom Force. As a comic geek I just loved the style of the game set in the Silver Age of comics it was really fun.

I know exactly what you mean. In fact, when I saw the picture up there as I was scrolling through the frontpage, for a split second I thought it was an announcement about a new Freedom Force. Then I realized it wasn't.

Now I'm sad.

Xcom UFO Defense is a very good strategy game. While the graphics don't hold up to today, the strategy gameplay and music do.

The music makes the game very tense, love it.

I think developers should be buying up all these games as well for inspiration.

One of my flatmates played XCOM Apocalypse for like three weeks straight over Christmas - and had a friend over to discuss tactics! Although personally I don't think I could get into it.

I can't believe you're griping about $2. You get the whole X-Com set for that, but even if you only want one game, it's still a steal. If you have to pause to consider spending $2 you probably shouldn't be spending that $14 on tropico...

Having played both games (Incubation and XCOM: UFO Defense (was called UFO: Enemy Unknown when I had it on the Amiga)) and enjoyed them both I would say it is highly likely. Where Incubation sends a squad into a designed map with a specific mission goal, XCOM has a global strategic map where you buy equipment and shoot down UFOs before going into tactical missions on a randomly generated map where the mission is to kill all of the aliens (or capture one/some equipment and run if you find yourself outmatched). I personally think XCOM is even better than Incubation (more replayability due to random maps), but may not have aged well (the PC version I picked up years ago was DOS, and whilst still great, suffered graphically) and will take some investment to learn properly (made before in game tutorials, better hit the very thick manual :) ).

in terror from the deep i managed to intercept an alien sub, walk my guys around some, 2 got killed with a grenade (?) and then when aliens shot at others they managed to kill 2 or 3 with return fire.

Then the rest exploded for some reason.