Key Features
General - combination of global strategy and tactical missions
- completely new story built on the events from UFO: Aftershock
- large number of new technologies, weapons and equipment to develop
- completely new environments on a different planet than Earth
- highly replayable game because of the player’s key decisions on diplomacy and research
- strong RPG elements, the player knows his team by names
Strategy - new enemies and new alien races with variable weapons and battle tactics
- several character classes with different attributes, skills and trainings
- diplomacy has strong influence on the game story
- research enables terraforming of the planet in later stages of the game
- improved and transparent construction and building management
- friendly interface and easy orientation in the game, useful information available at time and place where needed
Tactics - advanced tactical part of the game with the possibility to enter buildings, thermo visions and more
- player may use different height and destructible elements of environment to his advantage
- tactical missions controlled by intelligent scripts guarantee reasonable behavior of enemies
- authentic physical model
- player must adapt his tactics during the game as the enemies change and grow stronger, hardly two missions are the same
- aliens and robots in your team
- hostile environment requiring the use of different types of spacesuits
- opportunity to mind-control your enemies and use psionic abilities