There's some good texture and artwork here. The good spots come from the look of the city portions of the game. Terrain in outdoor areas isn't badly textured, but can be boring as hell, especially after you've seen it so many times (more on that in a second). Characters and aliens are mostly uninspired (even though I have a guilty weak spot for the gigantic Car Crab). In fact, the graphics and presentation in general aren't so hot. This didn't need main characters, but something to showcase new knowledge and give a little bit of a reward would have been nice. There are no cutscenes to propel the story along. It's not that the idea is bad, it's just the presentation of that idea. Aftermath takes a much more serious approach to things and suffers for it.
You'll also remember the fun aliens and their wicked attacks on cities and the planet in general. Those that remember X-COM will remember the fun and excitement that the opening comic book style intro planted into the experience right from the start.
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You'll have to uncover quest missions to learn the reason behind the attacks and how to stop them eventually. The story itself is presented fairly blandly, which is sad because it actually has a bit more depth to it than the story in the original X-COM. You'll take the reigns of the defense of the planet and begin to fight back to take your home back from the invaders. The bastards went and released a cloud of spores into the atmosphere, which eventually fell to the surface, killing or mutating nearly all forms of life with the exception of some "lucky" few, of which you are one. The story follows the invasion and near annihilation of all life on the planet by an alien invasion. This is where you come in: you must gather together the remaining peoples of the planet, find out what has happened, and, if possible, get your revenge.UFO: Aftermath is a squad based, tactical strategy game at heart. After several weeks, the spores seemed to have disintegrated, decomposing and settling into the soil. A few, however, did survive, sealed in underground bases with stocks of food and oxygen.
Choosing caution over aggression, the governments of the world didn’t realize how quickly the end could come, and were buried alongside those that they governed. During the "Nightfall", as it would come to be called, most of the higher life forms on the earth were wiped out.ĭuring the Twilight, all human responses were futile. Having reached critical mass in the skies, the spores begin to rain down, and over the course of several days, begin to clog the streets and bodies of water, smothering people in their homes, and burying animals in the wild. In later days, this period will be known as the "Twilight". Rapidly multiplying, the spores soon darken the skies, and before long obscure the sun completely. Silent, it hovers ominously over the world, and begins to release great clouds of spores into the upper atmosphere. Click on the picture to enlarge it Jiri Rydl: The day after tomorrow, a giant spacecraft approaches the Earth.
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