Posted on: August 21, 2025
Cryptomortem
Verified ownerGames: 9 Reviews: 3
Classic Game
It's X-Com. It's great. Everyone knows it. Now will this EFFING review box STOP popping up????
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X-Com: UFO Defense
Description
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
- Command deadly close-combat battles
- Shooting down UFOs is just the beginning: you must then lead a squad of heavily-armed soldiers across different terrains as they investigate the UFO crash site. Tackle the aliens with automatic rifles, rocket launchers, and even tanks in the struggle to retrieve useful technology, weapons or life forms.
- Research and manufacture alien technologies
- Successful ground assault missions will allow X-COM scientists to analyze alien items. Each new breakthrough brings you a little closer to understanding the technology and culture of the alien races. Once you have sufficient research data on the UFO's superior weapons and crafts, you'll be able to manufacture weapons of equal capability.
- Develop a strategy to save the Earth
- You must make every crucial decision as you combat the powerful alien forces. But you'll also need to watch the world political situation: governments may be forced into secret pacts with the aliens and then begin to reduce X-COM funding.
©2016 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., 2K, and their respective logos are trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
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38 hMain
49 h Main + Sides
77 h Completionist
43 h All Styles
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Posted on: June 11, 2021
Gecko05
Verified ownerGames: 533 Reviews: 16
Truly a classic
Just wow! Beware the dated UI and controls though, I've heard OpenXCOM solves a lot of issues.
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Posted on: August 23, 2021
jarmotauko
Verified ownerGames: 68 Reviews: 3
Great fun
The interface didn't feel confusing at all after reading the manual. I guess playing Enemy Unkown also contributed to how easy this was to pick up in general. The game feels genuinely challenging and winning a battle is very satisfying. It was a sad moment when my squaddie Will die Horribley got fatally wounded by a plasma rifle and died a slow and horrible death. Research med kits ASAP.
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Posted on: August 30, 2021
Arakius
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 30
Its betere game(1993)then games from2021
Ive played 2 new X-Coms and they pices of crap if comprere to this game. New technology a lot of money and they made bad games why Americans why ??? . But to begining to play 1 lvl on Amiga u need maybe an hour ( im not joking it was more waiting then playing but with computer with 2 Mbites of ram (AMIGA) :) ) then i was happy when i can buy this game on GOG. Great gamplay , resarch , base building , very big Ufopedia - just great piece of work
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