You'll also notice the Doom demon scream noise in this intro movie. All these guys were working off the same public domain sound effects cd in the early 90s.

I've noticed many a Doom sound in this as well as other games and shows, mostly movies.

Namely, I remember an Imp growl in the short-lived "Invasion: America" s well as the door-opening sound in the remastered Gundam movies.

They're not public domain. They're off the "General" series. I've worked with a lot of them myself.

You'll hear the "doom door" and the "alien scream" in movies and commercials all the time.

until recently, i always thought the wilhelm scream was the same as the academy scream from starcraft. i still wish it were, cause that scream is priceless.

never played this one, but x-com apocalypse was fucking awesome.

also, at -1:02. aliens just came to kill our vampires. and we greet them like this? for shame, humankind.

the wilhelm scream is nothing at all like the scream from starcraft...

right, but i thought it was, without having heard the real one to compare. that, and i heard the starcraft scream in various other media as well. so i thought one scream was the other scream because both are canned sound effects.

why am i filled with the sick urge to continue to explain my confusion.

also the "ka-WOOSH" sound from the last boss of Doom 2 launching those boxes at you.

This intro was a blatent lie.. It led you to beleive this was going to be you kicking alien ass Doom style, an hour later later you were quietly weeping after the aliens handed you yours.

@ Urist, if you aimed for gas pumps & wiped out civilians before Chrysalids got to them, things went a lot smoother.

Hell, this game probably kept me out of college.

screw you, it's aged beautifully. it just needs an update, that's all.

It's aged awesomely. I can't stand most interfaces from PC games over a decade old, but X-COM is a blast.

It's aged better than most games from the early 90s. The graphics could be updated, but the gameplay is still better than any of the clones produced since.