But the more you ignore their cries for help, or are unable to answer their cries for help, the less they will fund you. The more you protect their countries and citizens from UFO invasions, the more they’re willing to keep funding you (or even give you a raise). And money comes from the governments who fund you, internationally. Keeping your bases and troops maintained costs money. You have to deal with the economics of it all. This isn’t a game where you just pick a squad of guys, and then go out blasting aliens, and trying to win one battle after another until you liberate the planet. And it became one of the most rewarding game experiences I’ve ever had. Didn’t have that luxury, or patience, with my first attempt, so I basically ignored the game for a long while after that, until I tried it out on PC.Įventually, I did make my way back to the game, and swore to myself I would only do one, and only one, mission. But after a few hours, just about everything falls into place, and it’s a decent learning experience from then on (not just learning other bits about objects, control schemes, buildings, etc I’m also talking strategies and what to expect in the battles). This is a game with an old-school layout that requires a good amount of effort when you first start out. While it is an adequate enough port (I mean, this is a turn-based game, it shouldn’t be THAT hard to port it), it doesn’t come with a manual to teach you how to play, or for you to figure out what the hell is going on. This was a major improvement (I guess) over my first attempt at playing the game, which was on the PSOne copy a friend of mine lent me. And I still get that feeling whenever I boot the game back up, and I hear the terror music from that intro video which perfectly captures the tension you’re about to subject yourself to. I don’t think I had ever played a game that made me lose track of time that badly. Something that addicting cannot be right. I shut the computer off and stayed way the hell away from it. 9 hours went by like it was nothing, and I went through the whole day thinking I had only been playing for 3 hours. I quit the game and looked at the time, it said it was after 6pm. Then the next thing I knew when I look away from the computer screen and out the window, I saw that the sun was setting. I successfully learned it, and continued to play it. It’s because when I finally sat down one morning at about 9am or so, I went through the tutorial the game manual comes with, and made an honest effort to learn how to play the game. Not because the game is too tense for me (though it does get tense as hell). When it comes to the original X-COM: UFO Defense game, I am terrified of playing it ever again.
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