Grim Squeaker

I think that in 10 years Aftermath will still be talked about as the game that never quite lived up to the original XCom. To be fair, I like the game, it's not bad as such and I have played it fairly regularly since I bought it but I don't think I'll keep playing it, definetly not once I've finished it. The original XCom on the other hand became an obsession, every time I started playing it I wanted to finish it and if you lost a long standing team member you felt the loss. Sometimes you lost a team and it hurt. Aftermath just does not seem to grab me the same, the graphics are ugly and while it may be nostalgia, I still prefer the original graphics. I don't feel that attached to my team, I can't even remember their names. When someone dies I shrug and sometimes you lose your team purely due to the bloody mindedness of a particular mission, on several occassions I've re-played a mission several times and always lose the whole team within 2 minutes because thats just the way the games is. I find that very frustrating. Every so often I do a mission that I find to be very satisfying but for the most part I wish it was more like XCom. This in why in 10 years I think people will still be saying, 'wow do you remember XCOm? There was a good game." To which the reply will be, "yes I loved it, you remember Aftermath? It never quite made it." Grim Squeaker