There are old games that can be called legendary. Decades later, they have a large audience of enthusiastic players. Among such legends - Doom, "Civilization". This also includes the step-by-step strategy of UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM).
Since the initial release of X-COM in 1994, more than a dozen “clones” or “spiritual successors” to this game have been created. And now the community has completed work on OpenXcom 1.0 - the first major release of the free version of OpenXcom. In the free version, a higher resolution is supported, new features are added and many bugs of the original X-COM are fixed. The release of OpenXcom 1.0 is timed to the 20th anniversary of X-COM. The development of a free clone has also been going on for a long time: since version 0.9, 5,224 commits have been made, 606 tickets have been closed. The work took more than a year, and three and a half years have passed since the release of version 0.1! So this is a really big release. ')
The list of changes made in 1.0 cm. Here . Here are some of them:
Rudimentary mods support in configuration files (ruleset).
Support for several new languages.
Localization of the installer.
New names of soldiers from different countries.
The new battle mode loads the available cards from individual files, so now they do not need to be embedded in the main game module.
Fully reworked Options menu, settings can be changed as the game progresses
This is only a small part of the innovations.
Download OpenXcom 1.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, openSUSE, ArchLinux, Gentoo, OpenPandora, Android.
OpenXcom 1.0 source code : a cross-platform game can be compiled for any platform. It is written in C ++ using the SDL library and published under the GPL license. True, to install OpenXcom 1.0, you must first install the original X-COM.