Stumbling through UFO: Enemy Unknown - Cydonia

[davidn]

It's the finale of a game that I never thought I'd see the finale of! In this last part of UFO: Enemy Unknown, we have discovered enough about the alien menace to have located a base in Cydonia, which is a nice little property on the surface of Mars, and have developed the technology to reach it. The team blast off and find what awaits them (which is mostly death).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEYaMeRU1OE&hd=1

I can't believe I've finished this game, after it seemed so completely insurmountable just last week - so we'll call this my Independence Day special, because I forgot that it would make a nice tie-in. Over the course of these videos I've really learned a lot about this game and what makes it good - it has a huge hump to get over right at the very start just to get into it, but after that it starts to really work - I admit I abused saves a bit on my way through to rewind disasters, but nowhere near the amount I thought you had to to have a faint hope of survival.

Comments

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

. .It never occurred to me that this game has an ending.

[premchaia_pre4]

Oh, come on—a Trevor reference—fffff—

I'll get you, ice crystal bag!

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

I was honestly expecting a Knights of Cydonia reference, but Maniacal Trevor made up for it!

I love the ending, as well.
"You are descended from us, we are not so different, we could work togeth-" BLAM!
"Not likely mate, I've seen the Bad Ending too many times to fall for that sh*t!"

Congratulations on beating it!

D.F.