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Product Description

Following the successful UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Aftershock, UFO: Afterlight will improve the current game type and interface and extend the current storyline of the series. CENEGA PUBLISHING and ALTAR Games are looking forward to bring more hours of quality entertainment to UFO fans and all potential players.

As its predecessors, UFO: Afterlight is a mixture of squad based tactical action and global strategy with the gamer controlling the actions of elite ground troops, and the running and construction of an intricate network of interlinking bases while collecting resources.

UFO: Afterlight takes us to Mars, where a human colony has been built with the help of the Reticulans not long before the events of UFO: Aftershock took place. Mars base is self-sustainable and provides all the necessities for survival of humans on a foreign planet, mainly breathable air, water, food. Although the people inhabiting this colony have the technologies and knowledge required for their further development, basic survival is their major concern. Their only activity is the research of a nearby excavation site, which proves the existence of an ancient intelligent and highly developed alien civilization.

The player will enter the game when the research drastically affects all Mars inhabitants. New and unexpected enemies appear in the form of robots, built centuries ago by the unknown aliens for their protection, whose purpose is to eliminate any traces of other civilizations on Mars.

Humans on Mars now have a good reason for their own development, even though not knowing yet that the planetary self-defense mechanism might not be the worst awaiting them, and that their unintentional opening of hyperspace gates will bring an even bigger enemy right to their door. After all attempts to contact the Earth Laputa fail, the colonists are left with no other choice than to fight the enemies with their own means, or be annihilated.

Features

Being a diehard fan of the old X-Com games, when I heard there was a spiritual successor to them, naturally, I scoffed. Having been lent this game, however, I'm rather surprised to see that despite my bias against it, it actually impressed me. At first I really wasn't fond of the stylised look of the game in terms of how cartoony the characters looked, but as I played I realised how useful that sylisation is when you take into account the fact that you have a limited, non replenishable staff of soldiers, scientists and technicians, who can specialise very heavily. Being able to recognise their unique look and remember their specific skills is worth the price of the cartoony look, in my opinion.

I never would have tried the series by myself, especially since this one is the only game in the series without the infamous Starforce copy protection, but I'm glad I have. This is a real gem, and it does the X-Com series justice, even if we may never see the X-Com label on a videogame again for a very long time, if ever again.

UFO: Afterlight (PC Games)