Posted on: May 2, 2025
OldishGamer
Verified ownerGames: 21 Reviews: 2
Definite classic
Casual turn-based system. High levels are impossible
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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: May 10, 2025
saqab123
Verified ownerGames: 12 Reviews: 1
blast from the past
great game still but alot of micromanagement
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Posted on: May 31, 2025
garioki
Verified ownerGames: 214 Reviews: 6
X-Com: UFO Defense
It's simply a classic turn based game, one so good they remade it years later with modern graphics, XCOM 2
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Posted on: March 30, 2016
coyotik
Verified ownerGames: 443 Reviews: 3
Accidental cheating
Oh, the hundreds of hours spent on this one... And if you find it too hard/slow to obtain some precious weapons/ammo, I guess that the good old bug is still around: The game actually runs separately the world/GUI and the actual battle. And the battle process communicates with the main process by means of updating a file on the disk when the battle is over. So, if you have a battle in which you looted a lot of ammo and/or alien weapons, you can replicate the results by launching any other battle and terminating the battle process with Ctrl-C. It will not overwrite the previous battle results, so the main process will gladly use them again :)
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Posted on: March 12, 2023
awyork
Verified ownerGames: 46 Reviews: 1
Sound doesn't work on Windows 11
Sound doesn't work. The setup program seems to crash out. If it's working it's still not setting the sound. Since listening to the alien's movement during their turn is a big part of the game, the missing sound is an big issue.
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