Posted on: September 7, 2025
Swoboda
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Classic oldie
Solid game. They dont do thm ike this anymore.
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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: September 13, 2025
smiffy
Verified ownerGames: 120 Reviews: 1
X-Com: UFO Defense
A Classic turn based shooter / strategy game! One for the ages.
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Posted on: September 14, 2025
DevourerXLR
Verified ownerGames: 337 Reviews: 5
Just buy it!
The new ones are good but this is the best game ever made by human hands.
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Posted on: October 10, 2017
BraveBull
Verified ownerGames: 489 Reviews: 4
Still great!
Yes the graphics are dated but this is still the game that modern games are measured against.
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Posted on: November 17, 2021
Friend1A
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Difficult, but fun
I first played this game on PS1, renting it several times. The level of customization was rare in those days. There are several things to manage, the importance of some things only becoming apparent later in the game. This results in starting over a few times when you realize you have no hope of holding back the aliens with your current resources. Saving and loading is very helpful when missions go horribly wrong. It used to take several minutes to load a game on PS1, but it is pretty quick these days. The music is great. The graphics are still pretty good, especially given all of the heavily-pixelated games being released lately. The atmosphere that the game creates with the music and sounds is exciting and ominous. This is not a fast-paced game, but it is great for squad-based, tactical strategy.
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