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OpenXcom => Offtopic => Topic started by: SupSuper on August 21, 2016, 05:30:04 pm

Title: New finnish book about the X-COM series
Post by: SupSuper on August 21, 2016, 05:30:04 pm

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/60489/hcxmx/X-COM-Tietokonepelien-klassikot-kirja

This book covers the entire X-COM history and has a lot of content and exclusive interviews with official and unofficial developers (including us!). Supposedly. I mean I can't speak the language :P so if you do, definitely support them, and let us know if they said any mean things about us!

Edit: Friend of mine got some pictures of the OpenXcom section: https://imgur.com/a/3baUU

Games covered: Rebelstar Raiders, Rebelstar, Rebelstar II, Laser Squad, UFO: Enemy Unknown, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, X-COM: Apocalypse, X-COM: Interceptor, X-COM: First Alien Invasion, X-COM: Genesis, X-COM: Alliance, X-COM: Enforcer, The Dreamland Chronicles, Laser Squad Nemesis, Rebelstar: Tactical Command, Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, UFO: Aftermatch, UFO: Aftershock, UFO: Afterlight, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, UFO: Extraterrestrials, Xenonauts, OpenXcom, XcomUtil, Long War, UFO: Alien Invasion.

People interviewed: Daniel Albano, John Broomhall, Martin DeRiso, Dave Ellis, Chris England, Danny Flynn, Martin Gerhardy, Julian Gollop, Stephen Goss, Terry Greer, Stephen Hand, Martin Klíma, Johnny Lumpkin, Tom Nichols, John Reitze, Ade Scotney, Jake Solomon, Scott T. Jones, Stuart Whyte.

Title: Re: New finnish book about the X-COM series
Post by: kkmic on August 22, 2016, 09:32:33 am

Two words: Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

Title: Re: New finnish book about the X-COM series
Post by: Meridian on August 22, 2016, 01:48:17 pm

If there are any Finnish people here, I'd love to read an English translation of those few pages :)

And then we can compare it with this (https://meridian.byethost7.com/doku.php?id=games:openxcom:interview) to see how much has changed :P

Title: Re: New finnish book about the X-COM series
Post by: Darnoc88 on October 02, 2016, 11:39:31 pm

Hi all!

Had nothing better to do on a Sunday night so I translated these pages to English for the heck of it. Hopefully I got at least half of it right :)

Here's a link to the translation on pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/PPcbrWFC (https://pastebin.com/PPcbrWFC)

Title: Re: New finnish book about the X-COM series
Post by: Stoddard on October 03, 2016, 12:26:33 am

Bit sad they don't mention UFO2000.

Title: Re: New finnish book about the X-COM series
Post by: Meridian on October 03, 2016, 12:33:00 pm

Thanks for the translation, nice read.