However it wasn’t what was added to the original that made it lose points among real UFO fans, it was what was missing that hung around in the air like a bad smell.Īir combat felt pointless. Adding in a three dimensional cover system for your soldiers was a stroke of pure genius and I found myself eagerly chomping at the bit for a new alert to pop up so I could send my team into the hot zone and shoot some damn bugs. Let’s be clear, Firaxis Games’ 2012 XCOM: Enemy Unknown reboot was a pretty exceptional game that kickstarted my love once again for strategic turn based combat. Trips down memory lane aside, as a plethora of sequels, knock offs and reboots have marched past us in rapid fire succession over the years, why has it been so hard to replicate the complexity and sheer enormity of the first game? Two more sequels were developed: the near impossible to finish Terror from the Deep and the trippy multi-dimensional X-COM: Apocalypse. Pitting the player against an ever evolving alien invasion, UFO is a mixture of open world base building, inventory management and top down turn based strategy that is still as popular as ever today on steam as it was in its prime. The graphics are difficult to look at these days and the intro (that I thought at the time was mind-bendingly amazing) is a LOT cornier than I remember, but the core of the game still contains an open world strategic defence model that few games, if any, have been able to replicate in the 23 years since its release. Also known as XCOM: UFO Defense in North America, it revolutionised the concept of strategy gaming when it hit us like a freight train in 1994. It’s hard to find a more revered game in PC-gaming history than UFO: Enemy Unknown.
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