The box art for the Firaxis remake, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, was designed in such a way to pay homage to the series' roots. X-COM was going to be Laser Squad 2 until Microprose suggested that an alien invasion scenario would be more exciting. It all started with Laser Squad, the first turn-based tactics game by Julian Gollop. Meanwhile, members of the ruling body, skeptical of X-COM's ability to fend off the invaders, are secretly putting out feelers for peace. council in Geneva rubber-stamps funding for the first X-COM base, with the proviso that future appropriations will be cut if the council doesn't see results-and soon. However, after 5 fruitless months of trying to capture an alien craft, a deal is struck to merge these agencies into a global defense force: E Xtraterrestrial COMbat Unit. At first, the global powers attempt to deal with this threat independently. Reports of abductions and cattle mutilation spread terror throughout the population. UFO sightings, previously dismissed as an urban legend, have become commonplace in the night sky. Strange things are afoot in our solar system. X-COM: UFO Defense (known as UFO: Enemy Unknown if you're in Europe) is the first in the X-COM series of Turn-Based Tactics games. Wage war on new worlds in the Alien Dimension.Okay! So you shoot down the UFO and then land and take out the surviving aliens. Destroy alien sympathizers and stem alien infiltration.Create newer and more destructive weaponry. Combat the alien infestation in real-time or turn-based tactical missions.Battle alien invasion fleets over the city of Mega Primus in real-time.Explosive third game from the highly successful and thrilling X-Com series, following X-COM: UFO Defense and X-COM: Terror from the Deep.The safety of Mega-Primus is in your hands your task is to command X-COM’s forces to defeat the Alien incursion!" Features The success of our operation depends on your efforts. Our investigation is secretly funded by the Senate and without this funding, the effectiveness and scope of operations will be severely diminished. X-COM should retain a covert status as it monitors the situation in the city. Without this information we will not know of the Aliens’ intent or, more importantly, a means by which we can defeat them. The results of your investigations will be published in the UFOpaedia, so that both you and your Agents have the most up-to-date information. X-COM must recover all Alien artifacts and technology from Alien encounters, in order to research and develop new weapons and craft. To defend Mega-Primus effectively, you will be responsible for research and development based on the results of these investigations. The objective of these investigations is to gather as much information about the Aliens and their technology as possible. Your Agents will be responsible for investigating any strange events that might reveal Alien activity. You have at your disposal the finest technology Mega-Primus has to offer to combat the Alien menace. We would advise beginning the research of Dimension Gates immediately. The gateways can appear anywhere in Mega-Primus. The means by which they achieve trans-dimensional travel is unclear, but it is apparent that the UFOs use some form of Dimensional Gateway. In the past we were invaded from other worlds but now, in 2084, the Aliens are travelling from another dimension. "Congratulations on your recent promotion and good luck in the upcoming battle. Welcome to the war, welcome to the Apocalypse. But Beware! Alien infiltration into the city and its politics could see you under fire from criminal gangs, religious sects, and even the police!Īlien fleets fill the skies, creatures terrorize the city, chaos reigns. Your mission, as X-COM Commander, is to combat alien aggression and uncover their deadly intentions. The city's under siege from an unknown enemy. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus.Ģ084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. There's something evil in the city tonight.Įarth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion.
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