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Submitted: August 27, 2012
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Playin' in the 70's X-COM UFO Defenseby ~Margenal

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This time i'm attacking a big monument of gaming, X-COM the first!!!

I always have been a fan of tactical games and this one deserves the crown of the best of the best, the emperor, the unequaled and neverending legend.
I only played it a few in my youth, having other great games like Heroes III or Jagged Alliance 2 to rediscover it in my adult years and i honnestly never felt so much freedom ad threat feeling. You are alone, without hints not help and the only one you can get is the one you can find by yourself, combat, research, base layout, everything is under your command, for the better and the worse because this game is ruthless and merciless: instant death, mental control, panic, the aliens are far superior and you have to hunt them, track them with anything you have and to best them, by any means necessary...

For this cover i focused myself on the core of X-COM history: a shadow organisation secretly founded to save the world, so the faceless G-Man and the mythic Geoscape with menacing UFO floating around the earth. Simplicity for a better lisibility, i hope you will appreciate.

Thanks for your support and don't hesitate to give your opinion, enjoy!!!

~PokeyPokeness Mar 3, 2013

Dude, your description of X-COM, I don't think I'd ever come up with a better description than that! ^^

~Thorbears Feb 20, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Very nicely done

Why "70's" though?

~Margenal Feb 20, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks!
It's the whole concept of this series, redesigning a game cover following the main characteristics of the 70's book covers. I'm not the first to do this but it's very fun to work designs in this way.

~Thorbears Feb 20, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I see

In that case I think it is even better than nicely done

~Margenal Mar 2, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

hehe thanks, i still need to master it eevn more, some guys are true monsters

~CePheala Sep 20, 2012 Student Filmographer

J'ai vu le teaser hier encore, j'ai bien pensé à toi ! Tu me diras ce que donne le remake

~Margenal Sep 20, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Et comment!!! Je compte les jours avec impatience pour regouter aux joies du jeu de cache cache avec les chyssalides

~Koriandr-star Sep 5, 2012

Like the creatvity of this, also the faceless man that pretty much rpresents the secret backers of your orgnaztion, it adds a sinister element all around, from the alien threat to the faceless syndicate supporting your cause. Very well done.

~Margenal Sep 7, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Ehehe i'm glad you nailed well what i wanted to describe, thanks for the support

It's true the nature of XCOM as a shadow army was quite thrilling, especially when nation begin to turn their back at you...

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