GamersGate is making 1C Company deal this week. All games have incredibly low prices. Be sure to check it out. I will buy NecroVision I think it is only $7.49 :D
http://www.gamersgate.com/special-offers

I was looking through that last night. I'm thinking of buying the UFO Trilogy for $9.99. Any comments on those?

I have so far picked up Necrovision and Cryostasis, but I reckon I will probably get a few more by the end of the week.

They're pretty good from what I'm led to believe. That one caught my eye also as they are like "spiritual successors" of X-Com.

The UFO games aren't -that- good, and calling the spiritual successors to X-Com would lend you herecy charge in some circles, but for $9.99 for the trilogy I'd hit it.

Hence the quotations, my friend :).

I've heard that those two were just okay, but they're cheap and I've been somewhat interested in Cryostasis at least. Have you played them before?

Yes the PhysX Patch is available for download from GamersGate once the game has been purchased.
No not yet, I have also seen a lot of mixed opinions about them both. I thought that as they both seem to at least try to be a little bit different from the norm, at such a low price it was worth the risk.

I'm pretty tempted to get a Gamer's Gate account now...BUT I MUST RESIST.

Why must you resist?

Hmm. Ok, how do you tell if the PhysX patch has been applied? I ask because I bought the game retail, but my version is neither the US one (which has the patch) nor the European one. The Cryostasis exe is version 1.0.0.1 and unlike the US/EU versions, mine is simply published by 1C. So basically, I'm trying to work out if it might just be better to pick it up again on GG during this sale. But if my version is by some miracle pre-patched, I won't need to.

Regarding the ufo games... They're not X-Com thats for sure, but thats not to say they aren't good.
They're just a different kind of tactical management games, they're in semi realtime like how X-Com: Apocalypse is and I do believe if the Gollop brothers had been able to complete their last X-Com game it would've also been semi-realtime just like the predecessor.
With that out of the way, the UFO games are great fun, but can be quite daunting at first if you expect them to play like an X-Com game, especially Aftershock and Afterlight don't resemble X-Com apart from the fact you're fighting aliens and you're managing a base with research, weapons and soldiers and have to weigh the economical costs versus the potential benefits. So yes that part is like X-Com, but in Afterlight you don't shoot down spacecrafts, you're protecting territory and invading territory and investigating marsian ruins.
Unlike the early X-Com games, but like the later Apocalypse, you don't have to search the whole maps for that last enemy, as they're as interested in killing you as you're in killing them, so they'll try and hunt you down as well - although the ai isn't particularly good especially in the first one.
So I would recommend getting the mods from Shadowarrior on the official forums and at www.strategycore.co.uk download section as they greatly expand on the games and try to fix some of the ai problems in exotic ways. Also checkout the ACM total conversion for Aftershock as it features some fantastic new models and weapons.
If you like tactical management games that is reminiscent of X-Com definitely checkout the UFO games.

necrovision yay!

Seems like they're doing the same $ = € thing as Steam... Still pretty cheap though, so I'll probably purchase something.
Anybody got any tips? Necrovision and Cryostasis looks pretty interesting, and I thought I might get the pack with those two and Vivi Sector, but I'm also considering The Tomorrow War.