UFO: Aftermath is the end result of a project called The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge. Dreamland Chronicles was going to be an effort by a studio called Mythos Games to turn their legendary strategy franchise X-Com into a 3D title. However, Mythos shut down. Since then two different companies, Chaos Concept and ALTAR Interactive have created their own spin-offs, both starting with the title UFO in memory of X-Com's original title UFO: Enemy Unknown. The first of these spin-offs was UFO: Aftermath. It's a semi-real time strategy game like X-Com: Apocalypse where you can freeze time to give commands to your soldiers who will carry them out in real time. Like the old X-Com games it also puts a heavy emphasis on territory control and base management. Aftermath has a few problems though. Both the enemy AI and the economy systems make Aftermath unique in the sense that the enemy has no real AI and everything is free. With no economy and with enemies never doing anything beyond shooting at you, the game is way too easy. But still, it's not that bad and some strategy junkies may find it to their liking.
