X-COM: UFO Defense
X-COM: UFO Defense is a strategy game that combines tactical combat with base management and global defense. Players lead an international organization tasked with defending Earth from an alien invasion. The…
X-COM: UFO Defense is a strategy developed by Mythos Games, released 1 March 1994 on Amiga CD32, PlayStation, Amiga and DOS.
What X-COM: UFO Defense is
X-COM: UFO Defense is a strategy game developed by Mythos Games and released in 1994. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Amiga CD32, PlayStation, Amiga, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
UFO: Enemy Unknown, also known as X-COM: UFO Defense in North America, is a 1994 science fiction strategy video game developed by Mythos Games and MicroProse. It was published by MicroProse for DOS and Amiga computers, the Amiga CD32 console, and the PlayStation. Originally planned by Julian Gollop as a sequel to Mythos Games' 1988 Laser Squad, the game mixes real-time management simulation with turn-based tactics. The player takes the role of commander of X-COM – an international paramilitary and scientific organisation secretly defending Earth from an alien invasion. Through the game, the player is tasked with issuing orders to individual X-COM troops in a series of turn-based tactical…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are horror, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the X-COM series
X-COM: UFO Defense is the first of 27 entries we hold in the X-COM series. The next entry was X-COM: Terror From the Deep in 1995. Its critic score of 85 is 4 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is XCOM: Enemy Unknown at 89.
How it was received
X-COM: UFO Defense holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1994 averaged 72, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 137 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 80386 processor or better and 4Mb RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
X-COM: UFO Defense launched on 1 March 1994, within three weeks of Super Metroid and Beneath a Steel Sky. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Metroid, Beneath a Steel Sky.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for X-COM: UFO Defense yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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