A tear was shed today for those who have fallen. Those that despite their courage, strength and valor were taken from us by this new menace. It hurts, but my friends we must stand tall, together we can rise up and face this threat, look them straight in their alien eyes and shout that we can win this battle.
Get the full story of how X-COM: UFO Defense came to be in David L. Craddock's Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: UFO Defense.
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Outside Xbox: Falling Skies: The Game adapts sci-fi television show Falling Skies into a turn-based strategy game which closely resembles a downmarket XCOM: Enemy Unknown. See Falling Skies' Tom 'Noah Wyle' Mason and his last-hope-for-humanity crew murderise Espheni alien invaders in a wood in this gameplay from an early mission in Falling Skies: The Game.
I just got very very angry at this game.
It feels like it punished me for doing well. Playing Classic/Ironman, got to the base with just 8 deaths and one country down and BOOM! My whole squad of 6 (3lt, 1cpt, 2mjs) gets wiped out.
Balls. Balls. Balls.
Now all I have are squaddies, a lieutenant and a major.