Stumbling through UFO: Enemy Unknown

[davidn]

I remembered about a game I used to play a lot and yet got absolutely nowhere in - this is UFO: Enemy Unknown (or XCOM: UFO Defense) by Microprose (or Microprose). It's a strategy game from 1994 where you (attempt to) run an organization that repels alien invaders from Earth - you do this by engaging their ships and crew in combat and taking back artefacts for research, although I never really got to that bit. This video demonstrates the usual calamitous results of my efforts as the head of this organization.

I had originally meant to introduce this video by talking about the new XCOM game, but then I looked it up and discovered that it has actually been released in 2012 and not last week as I had thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDJY-5U5Us0&hd=1

Comments

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

That's how well I did when I played XCom, too.

At least the game has a lot of stuff in it.

[igorium.livejournal.com]

It has been very recently reincarnated in Xenonauts

[premchaia_pre4]

So—is there a particular reason you… seem to be usually sending your crew out one at a time?