My thoughts on Aftermath

[Ryman]

I went out yesterday and bought UFO Aftermath for only $10 and I have been doing some 'research' since.

By using accelerated game play(cheats), I have come to the conclusions that it is a very impressive game.

Likes:
-RPG elements in squads
-Ease of use in BattleScape
-Looks much better than the original UFO series
-Interesting storyline
-Realtimeish Battlescape

Dislikes:
-Bases cannot be assigned individual research/development projects
-Only one squad can be deployed at a time
-Only one type of attack craft
-Lack of variety in aliens
-Bases are a defined type, cannot be hybrid(e.g. a researching military base)

[Vintage]

I'd like to add:

Dislikes:
- aliens use human firearms
- Bases cannot be built by the player on specific locations
- Unit speech is getting annoying very quickly in battlescape
- 3D Flyby when seeing a new alien unit is getting annoying very quickly
- Bases do not have individual rooms, like in the original Ufo Defense game
- ...

[Kora]

Well, you know, there was a rumor that 3rd part of "Ufo: After..." saga would be called "UFO: aftertest" :lol:

there were really lots of bugs in both aftermath and aftershock - and I was really angry to see all my 2-combats-to-final-battle saves deleted due to ingame error while trying to save.

But I've just tried UFO Afterlight recently (it is avaiable as 10-ingame-days beta for free), and I assure you, it has a lot of nice improvements
http://www.ufo-afterlight.com/pages/download.html


what I liked most is that it looks better and requires less resourses than first 2 parts, thus making some good gameplay. And the fact that you can not recruit fighters any more (at least for the first story chapter) gives some spice to the game.