Advantages: Good, lots of play in it.
Disadvantages: Bugs will piss you off.

...There are two aspects to the strategy. On the global scale you must build UFO detection stations with space for interceptor aircraft, stores of weapons, somewhere to keep your ground troops, space for scientific research and so on. At the same time you must manage financial resources and deal with the alien threat when it is spotted, sending planes to shoot down the UFO's and to deploy ground troops to clear up afterwards. The clearing up operations form the second part of the game, the isometric turn-based section in which you move your troops around and take action against the surviving aliens - who are armed and dangerous. As the game progresses, you encounter bigger and stronger UFO's, with bigger, more dangerous, more heavily armed aliens; in turn you must research the alien technology and develop your own weapons to match... Read review

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Advantages: Great fun to play
Disadvantages: Looks dated

...By todays standards this game looks dated. But pretty graphics do not make a game. Remember Quake, well it was pretty, but didnt hold a candle to Duke Nukem 3D. Duke had a decent storyline. UFO is very much the same. An old DOS game, no where near as pretty as other games, but it has an addictive and original storyline. Its like working for the X-files and Area 51 at the same time. Its been so good, it spawned two follow ups and one spaceflight sim. In the pipe is a FPS and (judging by the picture released) a 3rd person strategy game. This game has expanded to so much more than its original dos version, and although old, it should be the game of the Mellennium because, unlike Robbie Williams, this game it did actually influence and inspire.... Read review

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Advantages: Great depth, addictive and good music
Disadvantages: Dated graphics

..."Base Acheron to Skyranger Alpha, come in Skyranger" crackled the call over the intercom. "This is Skyranger Alpha reporting" replied Tobias Richter, Commander of the X COM forces in Africa. "Report your position and heading, stand by for vector orders to UFO crash-site" "We are 200 miles southwest of Cairo, headed 150 degrees, speed 1300 knots, altitude 75,000 feet" retorted the commander. "UFO is 20 miles away, vector 120 degrees, comply" the controller barked a terse volly of commands. Tobias responded quickly as he scanned the readouts on the Skyrangers control console "Roger that, ETA to crash site is T minus 3 minutes". The veteran of almost twenty combat missions scanned the horizon for a sign of the enemy craft and as soon as it was spotted he decided on a likely spot to land. The region was fairly arid so... Read review

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Advantages: More on the search for truth in the science and in the universe
Disadvantages: None

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Advantages: Looks fantastic, sturdy and well built.
Disadvantages: Doesn't fold very flat, child lent forward, electronic dashboard very loud and irritating.

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Advantages: Great gameplay
Disadvantages: Finding a PC that can run a game this old

...Picture the scene, a UFO screams across the sahara desert, hotly pursued by two XCOM-Interceptors, who file off a barrage for rockets at it, bringing crashing into the dunes. An hour or so later, another aircraft appears on the scene, and the soldiers within start, ready thier firearms and start to disembark, only to come under alien laser fire. Thus starts another day for the soldiers of the eXtra-terrestrial COMbat (X-COM) force. In the early 90's UFO: Enemy Unknown was released to the unsuspecting public, an absolute masterpiece for its time. The basic plot is that the UFO's have started to appear in the Earths skies and are not exactly friendly. Your role is the leader of the fledgling X-COM organisation. The game is played on 3 levels. The first is that of the management of X-COM, from buying in supplies... Read review

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Advantages: An exceptional cross section of the artists material, phenomenal performances,digital remastering brings out the very best sound available this side of a hybrid SACD
Disadvantages: Only available on US Import-expensive for a single CD, poor info and interior artwork etc,bonus tracks weak.

...Well I first heard of UFO in 1979 by complete accident-via my local radio station Beacon Radio broadcasting a programme called "Stick it in your ear" a distant forerunner of today's "Planet Rock". I turned the radio on late as usual and I was listening to what turned out to be a track called