XCom: Enemy Unknown Demo Hits Steam

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I downloaded it and to be honest it just feels like a console port.

Not a bad port but a port nonetheless.

During the second mission did the camera suddenly go crazy and constantly move to the Skyranger for anyone else?

 

[cathou]

I downloaded it and to be honest it just feels like a console port.

Not a bad port but a port nonetheless.

During the second mission did the camera suddenly go crazy and constantly move to the Skyranger for anyone else?

Honestly it didn't felt like a port to me, the camera was pretty smooth, the mouse control was very intuitive and I didn't experiment that glitch

 

[Tohuvabohu]

I downloaded it and to be honest it just feels like a console port.

Not a bad port but a port nonetheless.

During the second mission did the camera suddenly go crazy and constantly move to the Skyranger for anyone else?

I didn't feel much port-itis from the demo. But the demo was rather short and hard to get that impression from it.

If anything, I really liked the atmosphere. They did a good job of making the aliens seem monstrous and fearsome. It might just be me and my alienphobia, but the aliens in the first 2 XCOM games really freaked me out.

Oh, and I lost my medic during the 2nd mission. Because I blew him up with a rocket launcher :3

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

-snip-

It only happened in one of the playthroughs so I'm hoping it's just a rare glitch in the demo version.

-snip-

You are right about the atmosphere, the first mission while rather contrived set the tone that you were facing an enemy that outclassed you in nearly every way.

The main features that screamed console port to me were the cycle ability with the units and lack of mouse control in the base. The base could be excused due to the short nature of the demo but not giving each unit a hotkey reeks of a quick conversion from console to PC.

The gameplay itself is good, it just the demo's faults (such as they are) rather large size and short length of gameplay make me wonder why they released it in the first place.