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Unofficial Tabletop X-Com Game Given Away
eebe writes "It's a common complaint that modern games are never as good as the games we all played when we were younger. Sequels never seem to do the original justice, and remakes never get finished. What Paul and myself have done is take one of the best games of all time, X-Com: Enemy Unknown (UFO Defense for the Americans) and turned it into an unofficial, freely downloadable / printable tabletop war game, 'X-Com: Tactical'. What better way to spend an evening sending your Chrysalids against your friend whose troops are only just walking out of the Skyranger?"
There's quite a few actually. Warcraft3, Civ, Age of Empires to name a few. Ask around at your local comic book / game shop, I'm sure there's others.
Doom, Diablo 2 (included with the Collector's Edition), and Civilization, just offhand.
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Which is interesting in that Age of Empires is loosely (very loosely) based on Civilization, which in turn was based on a board game called "Civilization". So it really has gone from board game, to computer game, back to board game. I know this from working on Age of Empires and with Bruce Shelley myself.