X-COM: UFO Defense 1994

Is it still worth playing?

Mythos Games and MicroProse's 1994 science fiction strategy game for DOS, sold in Europe as UFO: Enemy Unknown. It combines real time management with turn based tactics, played alone. The Geoscape is a continuous time global view to manage bases, research, manufacturing, finances and aircraft, with 16 founding nations funding the project. In the Battlescape, turn based combat plays out on procedurally generated, voxel based maps using Time Units, with snap shots, aimed shots and opportunity fire. Low morale can make soldiers flee or go berserk, while killed soldiers stay dead. Captured live aliens yield technology and psionic abilities, and artifacts can be reverse engineered. Two linked layers, where what you research and capture changes your options in battle, and no one strategy that always wins, still invite experimenting today.