Fallout tactics is a great squad based game,and possibly fallout 2 though its not as strategic.

Commando 2 is really cool too. Similar to xcom, but in real time. Your characters don't "upgrade", but each one is unique in his abilities.

Being a Fallout fan, I would highly recommend Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood Of Steel. Simple story line, plenty of weapons and armor and tons of enemy to kill; I couldn't have asked for more. :D

Yes Fallout Tactics: BOS, but do not forget to patch it. The gold version is almost unplayable because of bugs, works fine with the latest version though.

A fairly recent game, Freedom Force is kind of fun. It's a superhero game, where you develop a variety of super heroes. Once you get two or three super heroes on your team, it turns into a squad based combat game, with each of the heroes having different powers. It's very tongue in cheek. The superheroes improve their abilities as you progress, so it's somewhat RPGish as well.

I enjoyed the X-Com games (the first one and the one that took place in the city w/ real time combat). Also Jagged Alliace. Mech Ccommander was pretty good too. I haven't tried Fallout Tactics, but it sounds interesting. For Play Station 1 there was Final Fantasy Tactics which I played a little of. An ok game, but really only recommended for FF fans.

Fallout Tactic:BOS plays like X-COM in certain aspect but you don't have to research technologies just concentrate on pure squad level combat. IMHO, the best combat method in BOS is still turn based.

If you enjoy the X-COM I & II combat sequence, then there is a high chance that you will enjoy BOS... Provided that you patch the game up first. ;)

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City of Heroes... anyone? ANYONE??? AAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ?

well hrmf! i cant wait for this game to come out!

also i might not understand what ya mean by tactical combat, but umm d2 and (if ye call it a game) d2x are also very fight orientated hehhehehe, awe yes killing cows more cows, more cows, and finaly ye wonder why your playing a game where all you do is kill cows??

also everquest if ye mean tactical combat by strategic or sheer abilities...

i have found that classes like the monk and rogue require a lot of both.
then again i always liked the mage beastlord and wizzy...

other games to my mind... errr LET ME THINK OK??? sheesh what is this!?? am i not allowed to think? hrmmm! uhhhhhh

someone listed shogun total war, in that case why not list Stronghold?
howbout some of them comand and conquer games ( ya ya they arent rpgs...)

hrmmm ewww maybe this one! uhhh what was i gunna say? oh ya dungeon seige... tobad there isnt a dungeon siege forumn, i love that game... thats like pure fighting! and lots of strategys

tactical comat as in using a gun?
arcanum... i hate this game! i mean omg! ye fall asleep if ye cast to many spells!

hrmmm i wana go get something to eat... so ill just smack dab this post here... what does bump mean?

Hello,
yep, Mechcommander (1, 2) is also good. Tactical RPG? Well, it gets in under the door when you look at it overall.

City of Heroes???

Still think that the Jagged Alliance series is the BEST X-Com cousin.

Anybody like Soldiers at War? Pretty good WW2 tactical RPG!
Darklands??

- Twilight

For those who play mech commander(i havent) there's a very very difficult variant(atleast for me) Titans of Steel, is present to download for free. Strange game.