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Member Since: 02/06/10
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Mike Morris

About Me

Im 42, still a PC gamer – sad but true. I run a small but successful B2B marketing/comms company.

My fave games going back to 80s

Starflight 1 & 2, XCOM 1 & 2, System Shocks, Fallout 1 & 2, Deus Ex, Baldurs gate 1 & 2, Morrowind, Mass Effect 1

Not impressed with the majority of modern games.

Location

London UK

Interests

Creating a Morrowind in space combining Frontier/FFE type space sim with a surface squad based game along the lines of XCOM

Occupation

MD

Gender

Male

What consoles do you own?

Microsoft Xbox 360, PC

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  • coldcall commented on the blog post Freedom Force Weekend Deal on Steam

    Well i got my hands on a second user copy of Silent Storm and it is a wickedly complex tactical RPG. Very impressed, and follows in the great tradiiton of xcom and jagged alliance type gameplay.
    I still cannot understand why a TPS cannot be developed along the same tactical lines, using a real-time/pause (give orders) [...]

      1 year, 12 months ago · View

  • coldcall commented on the blog post Freedom Force Weekend Deal on Steam

    Ok Thanks.
    Anyone played Silent Storm? I was reading up on tactical RPGs last night and came across some reviews of this game, the majority saying its brilliant.

      2 years ago · View

  • coldcall commented on the blog post Freedom Force Weekend Deal on Steam

    Can anyone comment on how the Steam version of XCOM 1 plays?
    Do you need dosbox or has it been re-engineered to work straight off a vista box?
    One more question, i’ve never played Freedom Force, cany anyone point me to a fair review?
    Thanks

      2 years ago · View

  • coldcall commented on the blog post What Might have Been

    mcwizardry,
    Well thanks but it seems i have won an achievement for most voted down post :-(
    By the way, i was thinking about how one can program the “reaction” stat into a non-turn based combat system.
    For instance in ME2, one of the few cool things in my opinion is that the baddies try to [...]

      2 years ago · View

  • coldcall commented on the blog post What Might have Been

    Okay, I’ve registered here just to post this comment, because i came across a rumour from a source i trust re computer games stating that Irrational are in fact working on the next XCOM.
    I know Mr Levine claims he is the biggest XCOM fan ever but he is quite wrong about that. I am !
    Because [...]

      2 years ago · View

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