Is the X-Com reboot a friend or foe for your console?
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"Between battles play shifts to X-Com HQ. This huge underground structure is built at the start of the game and the continent you decide to build it on will offer a number of lasting perks throughout the rest of your game. From there it is down to business, setting up underground the facility and a network of satellites to ensure continued funding and equipment."
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.
