X-Com: UFO Defense

Best game there still is. real tactics, like avoiding the doors and going through the walls. A lot of variation in research, manufacturing and love the fact that the base you've build is the base that might be attacked, using the map you've made. A lot for a game, far before its time and there's a lot more than this.

This is a great ole game. Played it in 94. Yep its old but its a classic. Ole games don't have ads or in game purchases, You get the complete game. Its hard though. Watch yt for hints.

I originally bought this game on a stack of floppy discs, and spent the next several months playing it at every moment I could spare. Basically, it combines turn-based combat with squad-level RPG stats and equipment advancement, base building, and at least a taste of diplomatic considerations. The nearest equivalent might be Jagged Alliance 2, another classic game that adds strategic considerations and RPG advancement to an excellent tactical wargame. The only disappointment I recall was that nobody went on to build a series of squad-level focused historical wargames on either of those foundations.

How they fit this game into 15 MB is beyond me. I haven't played this game in over 20 years, but I still remember my last battle when I defeated it. I did it with my last guy who threw his last grenade and luckily killed the last alien. It came down to one lucky throw. What you should get out of that is I still remember how I ended the game because it's that good!

My childhood friend whom I played video games with nearly everyday after school told me about this really cool game one day and asked me to come over and check it out. We both sat down in front of his computer, a common thing of the time before the advent of the Internet, and he booted up this unusual brand new kind of game that I had ever seen before. I watched him choose the starting location for his base, build facilities, set up research, equip the troop transport and arm the interceptor. Then we waited. After a few moments, a small UFO was detected. He sent an interceptor after it and shot it down, then the troop transport followed. The game then switched to the soldier arming screen, and my friend commented about how the auto-cannon can shoot explosive rounds and "destroy cover and stuff". The mission area was the farm map around dusk, with crop fields, wooden fences and a barn. We sent our soldiers to dispatch the surviving Sectoids in the area and inside the downed UFO itself which had a gaping hole and several dead aliens inside. We ended our turn and thought we'd taken out the last of the aliens survivors, but the mission didn't end. The alien's turn finished almost instantly, and we didn't see any movement during the turn. Then my friend had an idea. He pulled all the soldiers away from the barn and put them on overwatch. Then he ordered the soldiers armed with auto-cannons loaded with high explosive ammo to do full-auto repeatedly on the barn. The rounds not only took out the walls of the barn, but most of the second floor along with the staircase as well, and exposed the last Sectoid hiding up there in a corner. Alas, our auto-cannon guys ran out of time units and we decided to end our turn. The Sectoid panicked and tried to run away, but got caught in a hail of reaction fire from rifle soldiers. A round struck its soft tissue and it dropped dead. The mission was a success, and the soldier that killed the last Sectoid got promoted.