STP: We always like to see big console games make the leap to mobile platforms, especially if the entire experience can stay intact. Jake Solomon, lead designer for X-Com: Enemy Unknown, talked to us about porting the game to iOS without losing the emotional impact and deep strategy that made the game a success on consoles.
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.