X-Com Terror from the Deep: The Official Strategy Guide

by David B. Ellis

What you learned playing X-COM UFO Defense will get you nowhere. A completely new strain of alien menace is bubbling up from the deep and your weapons are useless against them.X-COM specialist David... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076150074X
• ISBN13: 9780761500742
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Prima Games
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

X-Com:UFO Defense

Very helpful for those who have never finished this game. I still haven't but some day when I retire...

A must-have it you want to fully enjoy the pc game

This book is a great help when playing the game. There are detailed breakdowns for each weapon, alien, and human enemy. The section on research is crucial if you want to maximize the work of your research team. X-com Apocolypse rocks and having this book makes it that much cooler. I don't suggest you get this book untill AFTER you have already played through the game at least once though, you don't want to spoil it!

Great

Great Stratigic guide for those who can't realize that you must stay close to cover etc.

Good. Not Great.

David Ellis' second time out writing a X-Com strategy guide brings some mixed results this time around. The Bad: Around half of the guide is a simply re-print of the manual, with a few added details. Although good, many other sections of the guide were simply too short and did not go into enough depth (who ever heard of devoting only 1 chapter to the tactical part of an X-Com game?).The Good: Aside from the manual re-print, the entire quality of the material was very very high. Combat tips are right on the mark, and information is presented in an easy to find/read way. The tables are placed in the chapters they relate to, not some "Tables and Reference information" chapter at the end of the guide. It is a very easy to use companion to the game, not diving into meaningless details (for the most part) but not skimming important subjects (for the most part) either.Bottom line: Mostly Excellent quality, just not enough of it.

An excellent reference and how-to guide

One of the best game guides I have ever read, this book greatly enhances the Terror from the Deep experience. Rather than being a step-by-step guide that you must follow like a robot without understanding _why_(something that would be almost impossible anyway, due to the nature of the game), this guide provides the detailed information you need to make your _own_ decisions. Statistics on literally everything in the game, along with detailed explanations of how crucial game aspects like movement, combat, and finances _really_ work, make this one a keeper.