Anybody played X-COM?

[Wylder Treejumper]

And not the new Enemy Unknown. That's trash. I mean the old UFO or Terror From the Deep.

[Tam and Martin]

. . . . . No . . . . .

[Cornflower MM]

Care to explain?

[Rusvul]

If I'm not mistaken, it's a game designed to be very tactical and, from what I've heard, frustratingly difficult. Don't really know any details though.

[Wylder Treejumper]

Rus has got it right... If very understated. XCOM is an old turnbased strategy game. It is about humans going to war with aliens. The original is XCOM: UFO defense if you  are in the US or just UFO in the UK. The second one, which I play, is XCOM Terror From the Deep in both countries.

The game is impossibly hard. I have played for seven years and have never gotten past about two-thirds through the game... On easy, saving every turn so that I can redo if something goes wrong. It's frustrating, yes, but also incredibly fun.

It's an old game, so I didn't expect anyone (excepting Rus, maybe) to have heard of it, but you never know...