X-Com now again must protect the people while finding out about where exactly T'leth is and go in to blast it to smithereens with extreme prejudice. Story-wise, the destruction of the Martian base activated a fail-safe in the aliens' system that woke up T'leth (not R'lyeh, but you get the point), their 'secondary' (and mobile) base buried deep under the seas of Earth, ran by a 'Sleeping, Gigantic Alien In Coma That Can Manipulate Dreams' with an octopoid face, real subtle there. You do the math) and infinitely harder with a direct nod to Call of Cthulhu. It was good enough to spawn a sequel, Terror From The Deep, which was basically the same game, but underwater (therefore areas to cover are multiplied by three. You didn't exactly have a time limit, but the more time passed, the harder aliens arrived, starting with one-man(alien?) scouts to do Roswell-grade pranks to Harvester grade ships to abduct and mutilate cattle, to fuckhuge battleships that eventually started attacking your base. It falls upon the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit, or the eponymous X-COM, a multi-national task-force, to deal with the invasion by blasting the fuck out of the Aliens, stealing their shit, researching their technology, and using it to fucking kill them off, all the while fighting off terror attacks and trying to figure out where in Uranus these fucking things are coming from (as it turns out, from Mars, and if you win, the final mission involves you going to Mars and dropping an Exterminatus on their asses).

Aliens are arriving, and they are most assuredly hostile.

14.2.1 X-COM Enemy Unknown / Enemy WithinĪ general synopsis is that in the not-so-distant future, there is war - and aliens.

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