X-Com was amazing, and Xcom2 also pretty good. I just checked, and there is an amazing mod and very active community around LwotC (Long war of the Chosen), with tons of fixed bugs and improvements, a decade or so after the game was released. [0]

I am surprised Firaxis didn't work on an X-Com 3. I would guess the fan base is still huge.

I'm getting old and I don't play videogames anymore, but if I have a month of free time imprisoned in a cell with nothing else to do, I'd give xcom2 with LwotC a go. (and Master of Magic, and Master of Orion 2, etc).

[0]: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Long_War_of_the_Chosen

▲ Podrod a day ago | parent | next [-]

There's also an open source reimplementation of the original Gollop designed game which has extensive modding support. There's quite a few total conversion mods for it

https://openxcom.org/

https://mod.io/g/openxcom

▲ yyyk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do not think you're talking even about the same games? This is about the _original_ X-Com.

	▲	YeGoblynQueenne a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yep. It's this game: https://www.gog.com/en/game/xcom_ufo_defense Not this one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/200510/XCOM_Enemy_Unknown... There's a bit of confusion because the first game was called "UFO: Enemy Unknown" in the UK and "X-COM: UFO Defense" in the US [1] but the one discussed in the article is the 1994 game: `X-COM: Enemy Unknown Developer: Mythos Games Publisher: MicroProse Format: Amiga, PC Release: 1994` Also: graphics [1]. _____________ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown [2] https://dcnxazdl1qzggl.archive.ph/2Ue9d/b72fb5aeb68b363eebfc...

▲ YeGoblynQueenne a day ago | parent | prev [-]

>> I am surprised Firaxis didn't work on an X-Com 3.

Firaxis didn't but Julian Golop's company, Snapshot Games (discussed in the article) published Phoenix Point which is kind of like X-Com 2.0.1:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/839770/Phoenix_Point/

	▲	acdha a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That one unfortunately got caught up in publisher politics as they had a very successful kickstarter but then broke promises to backers because Epic offered them a lot of money for an exclusive. I think the game would’ve been more popular if it hadn’t had the distraction of many of their biggest fans feeling used. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/phoenix-point-becomes-epic-...
	▲	carefulfungi a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The long war mods are X-Com 3-ish - they are extensive!