X-COM: UFO Defense

Un clásico de acción por turnos, que sigue manteniendo su inmensa dificultad (donde los enemigos muchas veces son más listos que tú y retirarse es una opción muy viable)
Visto desde hoy, peca de una interfaz complejísima e impracticable, en lo cual le supera el reciente XCOM: Enemy Unknown (a pesar de no tener las opciones de varias bases y su construcción en detalle)
Interesante desde el punto de vista histórico, pero a excepción del reto que supone no tiene nada que no se sienta anticuado y obsoleto.

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AmunJazz # 2014-12-27 18:54:54

You are in control of X-Com; an organisation 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 the 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 analyse alien items. Each new breakthrough brings you a little closer to understanding the technology and culture of the alien races. When your engineers have amassed sufficient research data on their superior weapons and craft, they'll be available for your troops to use.

- 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.

Box blurb - # 2006 - official description

Latest version: 1.4 (as of ?)

Sanguine # 2008-11-10 21:04:42

UFO: Enemy Unknown was used in Russia and likely rest of the Europe as well.

Sanguine # 2008-07-01 17:04:46

Two books were made of the game. One by Diane Duane in 1995 and another by Vladimir Vasilyev in 1997, both bearing the name X-COM: UFO Defense.

Sanguine # 2007-07-23 11:34:16

software: DOS 5.x,

hardware: 386DX CPU, Video Graphics Array, Keyboard, Mouse, AdLib SPU, PC speaker SPU, Sound Blaster SPU,

display: textured polygons, raster

Minimum requirements:
* MS-DOS 5.0
* 386 20 MHz CPU
* 4 MB RAM (2 MB free)
* 560 kB free conventional memory

Supported soundcards:
* SoundBlaster
* AdLib
* Roland LAPC-1
* PC Speaker

Sanguine # 2007-10-15 22:11:47

influenced by
Laser Squad (ZX Spectrum)

has influenced
UFO: Afterlight (Windows)
Battle Brothers (Linux)
X@COM (Windows)
Riftforge (Linux)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Windows)
Xenonauts (Windows)
Battle Brothers (Windows)
Cortex Command (Linux)
UFO: Alien Invasion (Windows)
UFO 2000 (Windows)
UFO 2000 (Linux)
UFO: Aftermath (Windows)
UFO: Aftershock (Windows)
UFO: Extraterrestrials (Windows)
Enemy (Linux)

has this clone
OpenXcom (Linux)
Aliens vs. Humans (iOS)
OpenXcom (Mac OS X)
OpenXcom (Windows)

ported to
X-COM: UFO Defense (Windows)
X-COM: UFO Defense (Amiga AGA)
X-COM: Enemy Unknown (PS)

prequel of
X-COM: Terror from the Deep (MS-DOS)

version of
X-COM: UFO Defence (Amiga)

was remade as
Pocket UFO (Mobile)
Pocket UFO (Windows)
Pocket UFO (WinCE)

parallels
X-COM: Enforcer (Windows)