Thanks to shitty sites like IGN fucking over all the web search results, I haven't been able to get a straight answer on this: The usa had X-Com ufo defense, I saw that there is an X-com terror from the deep in the UK. Now I have neither, but they have a bad habit of renaming titles in the US. Are these two separate, distinct games as I suspect? If one follows the PC naming it is. However we had several titles changed over here..
X-Com: UFO Defense and X-Com: Terror from the Deep ARE two distinct games. In fact, what we got as X-Com: UFO Defense was called UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe. Interesting (or maybe not) note: you can download Terror from the Deep from Steam, or at least you could at one point not too long ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_UFO_Defense This should answer the normal questions, and just that is clear 99 % of the English wiki articles are quite accurate. So perhaps some of it is BS on certain articles, but other than that. Then wikipedia is a great source.
The IGN thing pisses me off so much. They enter the game name in their database and that's it. Page 1 of Google..
It's frustrating that such good games were given such limited release. We didn't even get Terror from the deep for psone here in the states, just ufo defense.
Terror from the Deep kind of sucks when held next to the original. It's hard, the colors are drab (although the graphics have, for the most part, improved), the new aliens and technology are rather uninspired, and the game is very repetitive. I spent over an hour looking for a single alien on a terror mission before I finally gave up. Enemy Unknown (X-COM: UFO Defense) is easily one of the best games ever made, though. Terror from the Deep is bad when held next to the first game, but overall is pretty solid. At least, I assume it is, since I never finished it.
Not having all the Microprose releases in the US on PSX wasn't exactly a loss, I think. After all, X-Com kinda belong on the personal computer platform ;D Another Microprose title that had an enhanced PSX port that was not released in the US was Transport Tycoon (Heck, that game was even released in Japan on the Saturn) And yeah, as people have shown many times before in this topic: X-Com - Ufo Defense = Enemy Unknown The differences between the PSX version and the PC version = additional FMVs and a CD-DA soundtrack. (At least I don't remember all the PSX FMVs from the PC version, but my brother says he recalls some from an Amiga version... but I can't testify to that, as I've never played any amiga version(s) of this game) Terror from the Deep probably has the same FMVs as the CD version for personal computers, but I dunno if the same applies to the CD-DA soundtrack for it. (Transport Tycoon also had this treatment, featuring a CD-DA mixed version of the midi-like soundtrack, along with a CG opening and a 3D view mode) But at the end of the day, I really wouldn't say it was a big loss not getting these on console "everywhere". Maybe if the controls were better, loading improved, saving/loading didn't take forever and a PS Mouse was standard with all purchases... Did I ever say I have a secret fetish for PC -> Console ports from around the mid-90s?
